Ann’s Grilled Endive Salad

Endives are one of winter and spring’s most nutritious veggie families. Loved for their slightly bitter flavor they include translucent pale green and white Belgian endive, the red endives round radicchio and long Treviso,... and lastly the more open curly endive and the wild mop that is frisee.
Although in the US they are mostly used in salads, in Europe the more compact endives like Belgian, radicchio and Treviso are often cooked by either braising or on the grill. My fast favorite is to use the grill, which in winter means a stovetop cast iron griddle. This easy recipe uses either white Belgian Endive or one of the red endives. Treviso is particularly good. Aged balsamic vinegar adds a delicious sweet twist.