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

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)

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