22 French Farm Salad

Name: French Farm Salad
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 80 g (2¾ oz) Roquefort cheese; 1 large head of very well-blanched curly endive; 40 g (1½ oz) softened butter; 16 rounds of bread cut from a French ‘baguette’ loaf; 1 peeled clovegarlic; 1 heaped tablespoon of sprigs of chervil or freshly-chopped parsley; 7 tablespoons of Vinaigrette or, better, Vinaigrette Gourmande; 150 g (5¼ oz) smoked streaky bacon in three slices, each cut into little dice

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cuisine Gourmande

By Michel Guérard

Published 1978

About

Salade grande ferme ‘The flavour of Roquefort sharpens’ a simple salad’

Ingredients

Main ingredients

1 large head of very well-blanched curly endive
40 g (1½ oz)

Europe
France
Mediterranean

Method

Preparing the ingredients

Trim the endive with a small knife, detaching the leaves and cutting the largest in two or three pieces. Wash them carefully in fresh water twice and dry them first in a salad-shaker and then with a cloth.
Spread both sides of the rounds of bread with the softened butter. Heat a pan and brown the brea