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Hello Readers! Let’s take about this beautiful leafy green veggie called Arugula! Such a lovely sounding name too. Let’s get started.
Arugula is such a green and yummy vegetable to eat. It is in the lettuce family. It is a dark leafy green packed with vitamins and minerals. It has a peppery bite to it. Lovely in salads and on top of things like pizza and sandwiches.
Arugula has been popular for a long time. This leafy green dates back to the days of the Roman Empire. Hello Caesar 🙂 Arugula is native to the Mediterranean regions but can now be found over most of the world where it has gained popularity as a versatile and peppery salad green, side dish, condiment, seasoning and more.
Also known as salad rocket or simply, rocket, arugula is one of the first products of the home garden to make it to the table in spring. Arugula is easy to grow in your own garden. It can be directly seeded to the garden as soon as you can work the soil, regardless of frost date and matures 40 days later. Very nice for the beginner gardener. They say it is best to plant arugula two weeks apart so that it extends the crop. The freshness and smell will be inviting.
Is arugula good for me, you may ask? Are there health benefits? Of course it will be! Anything dark and leafy green will be good for you and arugula is no exception. Arugula is a brassica; from the same group of vegetables as kale, cabbage and broccoli so right away you know it is healthy. Arugula is full of vitamins A, C, and K. It also is rich in iron. As with almost all the brassicas it is the phytonutrients, antioxidants and detoxifying compounds that really get your attention and can help you achieve optimum health.
Think about adding this leafy green to your next salad or on top of your next pizza for a unique taste, peppery bite, and some added vitamins and minerals!
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You know, I must admit that I'm still not sure whether or not I like arugula. Every time we've ever eaten it or even grown it, it was in a mix with other greens. One of these days I have to buy a bunch of arugula from someone who has properly identified it, to be sure that's exactly what I'm eating, LOL!
Some of these dishes make use of the fact that arugula has a very sharp, distinct (everyone always calls it peppery) flavor and showcase it. Others mellow it out and tone down its bitterness. Here are our picks:
1. Put it on pizza. This is one of our all-time favorite ways to eat arugula, a love we discovered through the prosciutto and arugula pizza at Otto in New York. Make a thin crust pizza with tomato sauce, slices of prosciutto, and a sprinkling of parmesan. Once it's cooked, throw a handful of arugula in the middle. Delicious.
2. Wilt it in a pot of pasta. We write about this method often, but throwing a bunch of greens into a pot of hot pasta is easy and yummy. You get a touch of green, and the leaves wilt down in minutes. Read our tips for an Italian Template Recipe: Pasta, Meat, Greens, and Cheese.
3. Make pesto. This, we've never tried. But if you love the taste of arugula, why not substitute it for basil in a traditional pesto? Here's a recipe: Arugula Pesto, from Michael Chiarello. And another, from one of our regular readers, Farmgirl Susan: Arugula Pesto (made with garbanzo beans!).
4. Use on sandwiches, instead of lettuce. Remember this Comte, Olive, and Arugula Grilled Cheese? Arugula can add the perfect bite to a simple sandwich. We've had it on egg salad and turkey alike.
5. Make soup. This recipe for Arugula Vichyssoise from Epicurious intrigued us. Chilled soup would taste good this time of year...