These Pecan & Goat Cheese Endive Cups are put together in just minutes. A little endive cup filled with crumbled goat cheese, chopped pecans and drizzled with honey. Your perfect last minute dinner party appetizer.
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Here’s What We Need To Make These Endive Cups
- Endive cups
- Arugla leaves
- Goat cheese
- Pecans
- Honey
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How To Put Together This Simple Endive cup Appetizer
- Prepare endive cups – Pull the leaves apart and rinse them. Pat dry and shake off any excess water. You can leave them in a colander to completely dry if you have time.
- Prepare filling – roughly chop the pecans and crumble the goat cheese.
- Fill cups – evenly fill the cups with a little goat cheese and pecans
- Garnish the salad cups – add an arugula leaf to the top of each salad cup and lightly drizzle over honey. Be careful not to drizzle over too much honey. You are just looking to add a light touch.
Cooking Tip – It’s best to crumble the goat cheese when it’s cold. When it’s warm, it becomes soft and is difficult to work with.
How To serve The Goat Cheese & pecan Endive cups
- Before dinner nibble – These little bites would go great before a big dinner as they are so light.
- With other Appetizers – Why not serve these alongside other appetizers like the Fig & Goat Cheese Bites, the Caprice Salad Sticks and the Italian Stuffed Mushrooms
Can I prepare This Easy Appetizer in Advance
- Prepare ingredients before hand – you can get everything ready hours before serving. Clean leaves, chop nuts and crumble cheese.
- Put together up to an hour before serving – you can put these together up to an hour before serving. Keep them in the fridge until serving and don’t drizzle the honey until you are about to serve them.
Are There Any Substitutions I Can Make To This Easy Salad Cup Appetizer
- Endive Cups – You could use chicory or escarole
- Pecans – Walnuts would make a good replacement or even raw almonds.
- Goat cheese – I used a soft goat cheese but feta would work as well or any kind of crumbly cheese that you like.
Pecan & Goat Cheese Endive Cups
Ingredients
- 26 endive leaves approximately
- 1/3 cup pecans roughly chopped
- 3 oz goat cheese crumbled
- 2 tsp honey
- arugula leaves
Instructions
- Wash the endive leaves and trim the ends. Pat dry and arrange on a plate, board or platter.
- Evenly fill all the leaves with the crumbled goat cheese and chopped pecans. Finish off with and arugula leaf and a drizzle of honey.
*A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are estimates only.
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This is a super tasty appetizer that displays well, especially when alternating white and purple endive. I like to spread soft goat cheese on the endive, as crumbles may fall off. Then using Trader Joe’s candied pecans is the right about of sweetness & they adhere to the soft cheese. Drizzling honey or balsamic is the perfect final touch.
I like the alternating white and purple endive. Thanks for your kind suggestions and feedback.