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What Is Salsify and How Can I Use It?

If salsify has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 3 recipes to try it in.

In Chinese:
婆罗门参
British (UK) term:
Salsify
en français:
salsifis
en español:
salsifí

Recipes using salsify

There are 3 recipes that contain this ingredient.

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Pan-Roasted Squab with Salsify

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Pan-roasted squab with bing cherry red wine reduction, butter-braised salsify, and wilted spinach. Restaurant-quality French-American game bird dinner for four.

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Salsify or Vegetable Oyster Soup

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Salsify soup, also called vegetable oyster soup, made with just salsify root, milk, butter, and seasoning. A creamy, old-fashioned root vegetable soup with a subtle oyster-like flavor.

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Cream of Salsify & Mushroom Soup

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Salsify is a long, thin, darkly earth-coloured root, can be found in greengrocers's shops in February, also available as preserved ; when scrubbed, it is revealed to be white whithout an obvious outer skin.

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