Why it works: Endive and chervil share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Salade D'endives
Ingredients
Directions
Crisp the endives as described in the Lettuce Salad section.
When ready to serve, add chervil and dressing.
Mix well and serve immediately to prevent wilting.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Endive + cherviltop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together75 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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What each ingredient does
- Endives
- Provide the crisp, bitter-leaved base that forms the body of the salad.
- French dressing
- Adds moisture, acidity and fat that coat the leaves and season the salad.
- Chervil
- Adds a delicate, aromatic herbal flavour to the dressed leaves.
The step that matters
Serve immediately after mixing. Dressing draws water out of delicate leaves through osmosis, so the endive softens and wilts if it sits. Mixing just before serving keeps the leaves crisp.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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