escarole

Examples

• All

• Add the fresh escarole to the salad for a crunchy texture and slightly bitter flavor.

• And five, will that girl cook... raw meat, dirty escarole, ham and tomatoes?

  Household Saints (1993)

• Libby shifted a leaf of escarole to another position on her plate.

  Fiction book (1995)

• You don't have to know the difference between escarole and escargot.

  Blog text (27)

• We're having osso buco, escarole and beans... and rigatoni with lobster sauce.

  Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)

• Um, exchange grouper for sole, escarole for the potato, and... the beef sauce for the velouté.

  Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

• In Italy, they often use escarole in hearty soups during the winter months.

Synonyms

E

endive

vsescarole

7 6.1

A leafy green with crisp, slightly bitter leaves used in salads

is a specific variety of that vegetable rather than the general type

C

chicory escarole

vsescarole

7.6

A leafy vegetable with broad slightly bitter leaves and crinkled edges used in salads and cooking

is the same but not described as slightly bitter

Compounds

C

chicory escarole

7.6

A leafy vegetable with broad slightly bitter leaves and crinkled edges used in salads and cooking

Surface Forms

Etymology