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/tʃˈɪkəɹˌi/
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NOUN
- crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste
- the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute
- perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads
- root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee
How To Use chicory In A Sentence
- These so-called host plants include many broadleaf weeds and cover crops such as nettles, mallow, chicory, dandelion, thistles, bindweed, deadly nightshade, and many clovers.
- Harvest herb roots including bloodroot, chicory, ginseng, and golden seal in the fall, after the foliage fades.
- These chicons are the forced shoots of an otherwise green, bitter salad called witloof chicory.
- Oligosaccharides are present in vegetables such as Jerusalem artichokes, burdock, chicory, leeks, onions, and asparagus, and of course beans.
- This herbal coffee is made from a blend of herbs, grains, fruits and nuts like chicory root, roasted carob and figs.
- Even a demitasse of chicory coffee must have been hard to come by in Seneca, South Carolina in the last world war. Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Selling Mother's Louis Vuittons on eBay
- For the chicory: poach in water with salt and lemon juice for three minutes, drain and separate into individual leaves.
- Kitchen note: You can use other bittersweet endives - choose from witloof chicory, chicoria, puntarelle, frisee . . . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Due to residues in the witloof chicory heads the use of insecticides is forbidden during forcing.
- Again, this is a place to include uncultivated herbs such as dandelion, chicory, chickweed, malva, watercress, nettles and mustard greens.
