Roman Puntarelle Chicory Salad

Le Puntarelle

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Preparation info
  • For

    6

    persons
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Marcella Hazan

Published 1997

  • About

Puntarelle is a variety of chicory grown for the Roman market; it is used primarily for raw salads. A head of the full-grown vegetable weighs about 1½ to 2 pounds. A crown of long, slender, dark green outside leaves resembling those of catalogna chicory cradle within them a mass of white, twisted, hollow stalks. It is from these stalks that puntarelle salad, the crispest