Leeks, (bulb and lower leaf-portion), raw (USDA#11246)
Serving Size
1 cup ...
leek Notes: Leeks look like large green onions, and they have a more complex onion flavor. They're often cooked as a vegetable side dish, or used in soups.
Chicken in Mustard Sauce With Leeks
Filed under: Main Dishes
Total time: 45 min PT2700.0S Prep time: 15 min ...
Leeks - Leeks look like very large green onions (scallion) in the produce section. The leek is related to both garlic and the onion even though its flavor and fragrance are milder and more subtle.
Leeks. It may look like an overgrown scallion, but it’s not. The most vegetal of all the alliums in this collection, the leek is a cross between a mild onion and a sweet lettuce, I reckon.
Leeks
Selecting
Choose leeks that are firm and slender with clean white necks no more than 2 or 2-1/2 inches in diameter.
Leeks with three mustard and cheese sauce
By Lotte Duncan
Desserts
Trio of British desserts: sticky toffee crème brûlée with blackcurrant stout sauce; rhubarb crumble and custard; Cheddar cheesecake with whisky jelly
By Tim Anderson ...
Leeks, potatoes and minted peas, luxuriating in a white sauce beneath a cheese pastry crust is one of life's simple pleasures. The warm waft of fresh vegetables being cosseted in a wrap of flaky pastry...need I go on?
2 leeks, chopped (2/3 cup)
2-1/2 pounds butternut squash, pie pumpkin, or other winter squash, peeled and cut into 1 to 1-1/2-inch pieces (about 8 cups)
4 14-ounce cans chicken broth (7 cups) ...
3 leeks, white and light green parts, washed and chopped
1 large onion, chopped
1 large stalk celery, chopped ...
Baked leeks, Tavë me presh, is an Albanian recipe for cooking leeks.
2 lbs leeks 1/2 cup oil 3/4 cup chopped onion 1/2 lb ground meat 1 tablespoon tomato sauce Mild red pepper Salt Pepper ...
Baked Leeks With Bechamel and Jamon Serrano Handle
Select One
Add to Cookbook
Add to Menu
Add to Shopping List
Send to Mobile Phone ...
Winter leeks
Legume family (beans and peas)
Azuki bean (aka red beans)
Beansprouts
Black beans (aka turtle beans)
Black-eyed peas (aka black-eyed bean, blackeye pea, ...)
Borlotti beans
Broad beans (aka ful or fava beans) ...
2 stalks of leeks, cut into 2" long pieces
3 stalks celery, cut into 2" long pieces
5 cloves garlic, diced ...
3 C. chopped leeks - white & pale green
8 sprigs fresh sage
3 bay leaves - crumbled ...
Join the crowd " leeks are notoriously difficult to clean. The best method is to trim the tops of the leeks, discard the outer leaves, and trim the root. Split the leek in quarters almost entirely through the root.
cock-a-leekie (Scot. ) A soup made from chicken broth, leeks, and
sometimes prunes and pieces of chicken.
cocoa The remaining nibs in chocolate manufacture after the chocolate ...
Crisp bacon and fried leeks are used to garnish this dish.
Bagna Cauda - Meaning "warm bath", this is a dip made of anchovies, olive oil, and garlic. Unlike the French anchoiade, this is served warm and is not emulsified.
Garlic is a bulb of a lily-like plant, belonging to the same family as onions, chives, leeks and scallions. It is similar in shape to an onion, but ridged. The bulb is compound, consisting of anything up to twenty segments, called 'cloves'.
scallion (SKAL-yuhn) - The name scallion applies to several members of the onion family including a distinct variety called scallion, immature onions (commonly called green onions), young leeks, and sometimes the tops of young shallots.
feuille French term meaning thousand leaf Minestrone An Italian thin soup made with flavoured stock vegetables, beans, pasta and meat/fish Mirepoix A traditional flavouring mixture in French cooking, consisting of onion to, carrot, leeks ...
If you want to grow flowering leeks, start them from seed in the late spring or early summer, after the last risk of frost.
Probably native to Central Asia, garlic is a member of the same family as leeks and onions. There are many varieties of differing size, pungency and colour. The bulb or 'head' of garlic is formed of 12-16 bulblets, commonly called 'cloves'.
Soup recipe Leek Cream of Potato Soup is made with leeks, garlic cloves minced, organic red potatoes, ghee, tofutti sour cream, water/vegetable stock, cilantro chopped, shallots, some celery seed, fresh basil chopped, fresh thyme chopped, ...
In a large skillet, heat the butter and sauté the leeks. Slowly add the flour and cook for another five minutes. Slowly pour in the broth and mushrooms. Add the wine, and bring the mixture to a boil. Boil for one minute.
Vichissoise - a cold soup made with leeks, potatoes and cream.
Vinaigrette - a cold sauce of oil and vinegar flavored with parsley, finely chopped onions, and other seasonings; ...
Squash, sweet potatoes, leeks, parsnips, carrots, beets, cabbage and onions are great braised alone or along with meat and chicken.
Parsley, leeks, and especially lots of cabbage were grown and used in soups and minestrone. Onions, chicory, spinach, and beets were also commonplace on the late medieval Sardinian table. The most common fruit was citron.
A soup made from potatoes, leeks and cream, served cold, garnished with chopped chives. The name is also used to refer to any cold soup based on potatoes and another vegetable.
Vinaigrette ...
Vichyssoise is a French-style soup made of pureed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and chicken stock. It is usually served cold.
Verte
The French phrase for green sauce. A sauce verte is simply green colored mayonnaise.
Rocambole is similar to both garlic and leeks. It looks like a leek yet has a taste similar to garlic and is found predominantly in Europe.
Roccal (food industry term):
A chlorine-based agent to sanitize sink and food preparation areas.
Cock-a-Leekie - A thick Scottish soup made with chicken, leeks, and barley. Modern versions have lightened up this soup by using a chicken broth garnished with leeks and barley.
...
blanc (de poireau): white part of leeks
blanc (de volaille): usually breast of chicken
blanquette: veal, lamb, chicken, or seafood stew w/rich white sauce ...
Jing Jinang Rou Si (Korean): Beef/pork and Korean leeks wrapped in a pancake with Korean sauce.
Jjajanbbong (Korean) Spicy noodle soup with seafood (mussel, squid, oyster) and vegetables.
Jjajang Myum (Korean): Noodle with black bean paste ...
Court Bouillon - A vegetable broth made by simmering onions (or leeks), carrots, celery, and sometimes, other vegetables, such as fennel, with a bouquet garni in water and, often, white wine or vinegar.
diallyl sulfide - A type of sulfide/thoil found in onions, garlic, olives, leeks and scallions which may provide the health benefits of lowering LDL cholesterol and of maintaining a healthy immune system.
A mixture of vegetables, 2 parts onions, 1 part celery, 1 part carrots and may also contain leeks and mushrooms in which case the amount of onions would be decreased.
A chilled soup of potatoes and leeks. Other versions now use zucchini, apples, and carrots.
Advertisement: ...
vichyssoise: A smooth, thick French soup made with potatoes, leeks, and cream; usually served cold.
vinaigrette: A sauce made up of oil, vinegar, and seasonings.
Common items to be brunoised are leeks and carrots. The brunoise is often used as a garnish in many dishes. A common dish which often uses a brunoise as a garnish is a consommé.
You can grill many different foods when making dengaku, try grilling mushrooms, leeks, daikon, mochi, green peppers, konnyaku or tofu. Here are two more tasty dengaku treats...
Ramp A wild onion which resembles the leek, the ramp has a strong onion-garlic flavor. It may be used as a substitute for leeks, scallions, or onions.
Rasher A strip of meat, such as bacon. Rasher may also mean a serving of 2 to 3 thin slices of meat.
Sauté
To cook in a small amount of fat, as you would fresh garlic, onion, leeks, etc. for enhanced flavor prior to adding to a savory dough.
Along with leeks, it is one of the five strong-flavored foods that Buddhists must avoid, or else "in their present life they will find foul sores breaking out on their bodies, ...
Mirepoix: A flavouring employed mostly in braising meat, which is usually composed of finely diced or chopped carrots, leeks, onions, celery, lean bacon and bay leaf and thyme, all cooked gently in oil or butter.
Wild garlic is a wild member of the allium family which also includes chives, onions, leeks, cultivated garlic, and others.
Strips of food that have been chopped into thin pieces approximately the same size as a matchstick, eg cut the carrots and leeks into matchsticks.
Waitrose
Useful information ...
Usually includes parsley, thyme, a bay leaf and some rosemary, but may also include marjoram, garlic, rosemary, etc. Variations may include fennel, leeks, celery leaves, citrus rinds, garlic and black pepper.
A French seasoning blend of fresh herbs and vegetables tied in a bundle with twine and used to flavor stocks, sauces, soups and stews; a standard bouquet garni consists of parsley stems, celery, thyme, leeks and carrots.
Box Grater ...
Upstairs in the Rittenhouse Hotel, the fashionable restaurant could coast on good looks alone, but serves up the best scrapple in the area and a perfectly-proportioned Lancaster farmer's omelet with leeks and bacon and fried potatoes.
mustard, savory, water mint, spearmint, horse mint, tansy, catmint, centaury (?), poppy, Swiss chard, hazelwort, all mallows, that is marsh mallow and common mallow, carrots, parsnips, orache, amaranth, turnip, cabbage, onions (?), chives, leeks, ...
Bouquet de Marmite, a large bouquet made with leeks, celery and carrots, tied together and used in the marmite while making stocks
Bourguignonne: sauce made with demi-glace, burgundy wine, shallots, butter and peppercorns ...
 See also: Cooking, Onion, Sauce, Vegetable, Flavor
|
