radicchio
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- noun
- /ræˈdɪkioʊ/
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radicchio
- When roasted, the radicchio becomes sweet and tender, making it a perfect addition to a warm salad.
- radicchio salad
- radicchio leaves
- grilled radicchio
Examples
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Suzie's plate arrived, layered with radicchio, baby spinach, and endive—the sort of lettuces, she imagined, fed to sable rabbits.
Fiction book (1999) -
Each morning, I used to open the window shutters, listen to the bells calling mass, and watch the church gardener rake his rows of radicchio and fennel.
Fiction book (1999) -
Well, I'm gonna start with the grilled radicchio.
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Lettuce, radishes, radicchio.
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Now they are everywhere, fashionable and right, along with radicchio, gnocchi, and all the other exotics of a bygone era.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, I picked up the wild rice with the French morel mushrooms... on a bed of radicchio lettuce, and there's a little Dijon dressing on the side.
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But Carla Rzeszewski, the restaurant's wine director, made fast work of her worry with some ridiculously delicious Grignolino, and a radicchio salad and a bowl of beets followed fast on its heels.
Blog text (7) -
Rather than selecting one type of lettuce for your salad, choose mixed greens, which typically offer five or more colorful delicate greens such as radicchio, butter leaf, curly endive, and mache.
Blog text (32) -
Roast bite-sized squares of pumpkin sprinkled with something like dukka spices and throw them onto a salad with a bit of radicchio for the bitterness and balsamic dressing.
Blog text (14) -
The chef added radicchio to the salad for a splash of color and a slightly bitter taste.
How Bitter
Surface Forms
Etymology
Radicchio comes from the Italian radice and Latin radix, both meaning 'root'. Think of radish, which has the same root; that helps you remember the name comes from 'root', even though we usually eat its red leaves in salads.