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Purslane
A cool, crunchy plant popular in India, the Middle East, and 16th Century Europe.
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Spicy, bold tomato sauce (hence the name, deriving from the Italian word for whore) made distinct with anchovies, capers and black olives.

 


purslane = verdolaga Shopping hints: Hispanic cooks especially like these crunchy, mild tasting greens. You can use them raw in salads, or cook them as a side dish. Look for them in Hispanic markets.

Purslane - Pink-stemmed purslane weed used as a vegetable and in salads.

Purslane:
A small plant with reddish stems and rounded leaves. Purslane can be eaten cooked or raw and has a mild flavor.
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A garden herb with a reddish green stem, thick leaves, yellow flowers, and a mild acidic fatty flavor. Purslane is used in salads, used as a potherb in soups and gumbos, and can also be eaten raw. Also called "pussley.

Scallops, mash, sea purslane and tarragon dressing
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A mixture of young shoots and leaves used in a salad. Mesclun usually contains various types of wild and cultivated chicory, lamb's lettuce and dandelion but may also include rocket, chervil, purslane and oak leaf lettuce.
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endive, bibb lettuce, celtuce lettuce, crisphead lettuce, lamb's lettuce, oak leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, chicory, corn salad, curly endive, escarole, frisée, houttuynia, mâche, mesclun, sorrel, upland cress, watercress, winter purslane, ...

Purslane: A small, round-leafed, herb-like plant used in salads. Radicchio A form of chicory or endive. It may be green or red and is eaten in salads, or grilled, baked, or used in risottos. Sharp- flavoured.

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