O'gratin chicory and ham
O'gratin chicory and ham

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Roll up the ham slices tightly and place in a lightly greased shallow ovenproof dish. Wrap each head of chicory in a slice of ham and put in a fireproof dish , pour the sauce over, top with breadcrumbs and the remaining cheese, dot with a few pieces of butter, and put under the grill until. Pastry: wheat flour, salt, butter, egg yolks, water, yeast. Take your chicory out of the pan and wrap each piece in a slice of ham.

O'gratin chicory and ham is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. O'gratin chicory and ham is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have o'gratin chicory and ham using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make O'gratin chicory and ham:
  1. Make ready 6 chicory ( endives)
  2. Take 6 medium thickness slices of ham ( salty regular pink ham not honey roasted or smoked)
  3. Make ready 1 whole liquid cream small pack ( 20 cl)
  4. Make ready 1 Comté type grated cheese small pack , about 125 g (important that it is Comté,
  5. Take 1 Emmental or Gruyere can be used too but Comté is way more tasty).
  6. Make ready 1 table spoon butter, olive oil, Vegeta (optional) salt and pepper.

Roll the sautéed endives in a slice of ham and place seam-side down in the prepared baking dish. Pour over the Mornay sauce, covering the endives completely. Belgian Endive and Ham Gratin can be served on its own as a hefty starter. As a main course, it is often accompanied by potatoes, being Belgian, some pommes frites would be an obvious choice, although I find they go very nicely with either mashed or even just plain steamed potatoes which are.

Steps to make O'gratin chicory and ham:
  1. Wash well the endives under water, dry them.
  2. Heat up a table spoon of butter and a dash of olive oil in a frying pan (medium heat) and roast endives, after a few minutes turn them over and roast other side. Add salt and pepper and a pinch of Vegeta ( it's a kind of broth powder that gives taste you can use vegetable stock cube instead but crumble it with your fingers first) if you have some, on each endives. Then cover and let the endives soften and cook at small heat about 1/2 hour. (If they run dry you can add half a glass of water, to keep juice in the pan)
  3. Let te endives cool down on a plate and poor the juice into a large gratin oven dish. Pre-heat oven about 200 ° C (Celcius) for 10 minutes. At the same time roll up each endive in a slice of ham and place them one next to the other in the gratin dish. When they are setted nicely, pour over the liquid cream around and on top of them. Add pepper and scatter grated Comté cheese on the 6 hamed endives.
  4. Put in oven for about 25-30 minutes , if the gratin is not golden enough you can end up with 1 or 2 minutes oven grill option ( but always keep an eye on it all the time, it darkens very quickly)
  5. Enjoy with plain white or brown rice.

Belgian Endive and Ham Gratin can be served on its own as a hefty starter. As a main course, it is often accompanied by potatoes, being Belgian, some pommes frites would be an obvious choice, although I find they go very nicely with either mashed or even just plain steamed potatoes which are. Chicory is a popular vegetable in the Netherlands and eaten a lot in wintertime. This is one of the most popular ways of preparing chicory, wrapped in ham and covered with cheese. Common chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink.

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