minced chicken balls with celeriac celery and Belgian endives

This is an ideal recipe to recover from and between all the heavy meals these days.  I have the inspiration from a Belgian cook (Pascale Naessens) who is always cooking these kind of healthy surprising recipes.

Ingredients (2 persons)

• 300 grams of minced chicken
• 6 mushrooms
• a handful of parsley
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 celeriac celery
• Two stumps belgian endives
• olive oil, salt, pepper, turmeric, curry

Method:

• chop the mushrooms, parsley, garlic, celeriac celery and belgian endives fine.
• Mix the minced chicken with mushrooms, parsley and garlic in a bowl.
• Add a little bit of olive oil, salt and pepper.
• Roll chicken balls of the mixture.
• Put them in a refrigerator for an hour to get really stiff.
• Preheat an oven on 170°C.  Before putting the balls in it, put some turmeric and a drip of olive oil on the chicken balls.
• Bake them for 20 minutes.
• Heat olive oil in a pan, and start baking the celeriac celery in it.
• After 10 minutes, add the belgian endives.
• Bake them for 5 more minutes and then bring it to taste with pepper, salt, some turmeric and a bit of curry.

I was very surprised to see a combination of celeriac celery and belgian endives, but it was really wonderful, worth trying!