Butter Braised Endives

Name: Butter Braised Endives
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 Tbsps butter, sliced into ½ tablespoon pieces; 2 Tbsps flat leaf parsley, minced as garnish, optional; 1 lemon, juiced; 0 teaspoons kosher salt, or more to taste; 118 milliliters water, plus more as needed

Butter Braised Endives requires around 2 hours and 30 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 6. This side dish has 68 calories, 0g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. A mixture of butter, kosher salt, juice of lemon, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, primal, fodmap friendly, and vegetarian diet. BRAISED ENDIVES AND APPLES, Gin-and-Orange-Juice-Braised Endives, and Braised Endives with Haricots Verts are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Prepare the endive for cooking: Trim the root ends of the endive, being careful to ensure that the leaves remain attached.

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Endive

Remove any wilted leaves and cut out the brown portions. Wash under cool running water.Braising the endive: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Arrange the endives in a single layer in a stove top and oven proof casserole or baking dish just large enough to accommodate them.

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Endive

Water

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Baking Pan

Oven

Add the salt, water, lemon juice and butter. Cover the dish with a lid or foil and simmer on top of the stove, until just tender, about 20 minutes.

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Lemon Juice

Butter

Water

Salt

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Stove

Aluminum Foil

Remove the cover and lay a piece of parchment cut to size onto the surface of the vegetables.

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Vegetable

Place into the preheated oven and bake about 2 hours. Baste the endive several times during cooking with the liquid in the dish. You may need to add more water to assure that the liquid remain at about ¼-inch deep. Taste the liquid about halfway through cooking and adjust seasoning if needed.They are done when the endive is very tender and a pale golden color.

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Seasoning