Endive and Apple Salad With Spiced Walnuts

Name: Endive and Apple Salad With Spiced Walnuts
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 egg white; 1 teaspoon fine sea salt, more to taste; 2/3 cup light brown sugar; 1 1/2 tablespoons Passover wine, ruby port or grape juice; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; Pinch cayenne (optional); 1 pound walnut halves; 1 small shallot, thinly sliced; 1 1/2 tablespoons red wine vinegar; 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; 2 apples, cored and thinly sliced; 2 large or 3 small endive heads, thinly sliced crosswise into rounds; 3 cups arugula, packed; Black pepper and flaky sea salt

By Melissa Clark

Total Time: 1 hour
Rating: 5(112)
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Ingredients

Yield:6 servings

1egg white
1teaspoon fine sea salt, more to taste
⅔cup light brown sugar
1½tablespoons Passover wine, ruby port or grape juice
1teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch cayenne (optional)
1pound walnut halves
1small shallot, thinly sliced
1½tablespoons red wine vinegar
6tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2apples, cored and thinly sliced
2large or 3 small endive heads, thinly sliced crosswise into rounds
3cups arugula, packed
Black pepper and flaky sea salt

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Preparation

Step 1
Heat oven to 300 degrees. Cover a rimmed baking sheet with a nonstick liner or parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together egg white and ½ teaspoon salt until frothy. Whisk in sugar, wine, cinnamon and cayenne (if desired) until smooth. Add nuts and toss until they are well coated with egg mixture.
Step 2
Spread nuts on baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes, stirring halfway through. The nuts should be glazed and golden at the edges. Let cool. Coarsely chop 1 cup of the nuts (save the rest for noshing).
Step 3
Prepare the salad: In a large bowl, combine shallot, vinegar and remaining ½ teaspoon salt, and toss well. Let sit for 10 minutes, then whisk in olive oil. Add apples, and toss to coat.
Step 4
Put endive and arugula in a salad bowl. Add apple mixture and chopped nuts, and toss well. Season to taste with more salt and black pepper, and serve at once.

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Doris6 years ago

Totally delicious for noshing...and a really delicious dressing for the arugula (we did not have access to endive here in rural WI, but I will try it again when I get to a city grocery and report back).

ST6 years ago

I changed up this salad a little with just toasting the walnuts and added fresh goat cheese at the end. Huge hit with my family and dinner guests.

Angela James7 months ago

Used pecans - delish

Jill McGrath3 years ago

This is gorgeous. My friend dislikes Walnuts so I used a mix of pecans and sliced almonds, and I did not have apples so used pears. It was delicious!

Bo3 years ago

My son did not like but my daughter and I loved this recipe. We only used 1/2 cup of brown sugar for the nuts and we used pecans and they were perfect. I thought I'd made too much salad but we preferred it to all the other parts of the meal and agreed next time we'd just make the salad. But bigger ;)

Sarah4 years ago

I made this last night to go with Melissa's beef bourguignon and it was perfect!! I cheated and just bought already spiced walnuts (saving oodles of time and a few less dishes to wash). This is our new fav salad!

Robyn4 years ago

I make these glazed nuts (I haven't found a nut that doesn't work beautifully with this, but almonds are my favorite) almost everytime I have a spare egg white from another recipe. Even if you have to crack an egg for them alone, they are worth the 30 min. Keep in the fridge for snacking and sprinkling.

ldf4 years ago

Do you think this would work with slivered almonds rather than walnuts? Trying to make work for quarantine. Got curly endive and arugula from csa

citymom5 years ago

I need to prepare this in adv. for large dinner..IE slicing apples and endive...how to prevent them from going brown -

ST6 years ago

I changed up this salad a little with just toasting the walnuts and added fresh goat cheese at the end. Huge hit with my family and dinner guests.

Tyler6 years ago

This salad is fantastic and I make it often. I typically add about a teaspoon or so of Dijon mustard to the salad dressing. I also find that the salad is still great with raw walnuts in a time crunch. Fennel is a solid (but stronger-tasting) substitute for the endive.

Doris6 years ago

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