Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A variety of endive (Cichorium endivia) having leaves with irregular frilled edges and often used in salads.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Blanched endive: a salad vegetable. Also escarolla.
Wiktionary
- n. A variety of endive, Cichorium endivia, that has frilly leaves
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a variety of endive (Cichorium endivia) often used in salads, having leaves with irregular frilled edges.
WordNet 3.0
- n. variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges
Etymologies
- French, from Old French scariole, from Late Latin ēscāriola, chicory, from Latin ēscārius, of food, from ēsca, food, from edere, ēs-, to eat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This dish was fairly easy to put together, but washing the escarole is a bit time-consuming - it's quite sandy.”
“During a recent cooking class, doctors learned how to make dishes such as escarole and bean soup, baked eggplant parmigiana and simmered black sea bass.”
The Wall Street Journal: Teaching Healthy Ways To Doctors in the Kitchen
“In fact the only crops we are growing at Fletcher Salads are whole head leafy salads such as escarole, frisee, endive, radicchio, lollo rossa & red oakleaf etc for the processing, sandwich & foodservice sectors.”
“Place a handful of outer leaves from four bunches of mixed chicories like escarole, fris é e, radicchio and curly endive in a bowl along with leaves separated from the base of 1 Belgian endive and add some olive oil, salt, pepper, a splash of water and mix.”
“For her third Slow Food Fast recipe, Ms. Lo prepared seared scallops with braised escarole and lemon.”
The Wall Street Journal: Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops
“She paired the escarole with local Peconic Bay scallops, which she calls, "the most local and delicious scallops.”
The Wall Street Journal: Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops
“While the escarole finishes cooking, prepare scallops.”
The Wall Street Journal: Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops
“Braising escarole, a winter chicory, brings out the green's bittersweet notes and the lemon slices, cooked with pith and all, add what Ms. Lo calls "bite contrast.”
The Wall Street Journal: Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops
“She created the dish on Long Island after her neighbor gave her a homegrown head of French escarole.”
The Wall Street Journal: Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops
“Butter-slicked escarole and lemon slices provide an ideal counterpoint to the sweet molluscs.”
The Wall Street Journal: Braised Escarole With Seared Bay Scallops
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘escarole’.
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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bearfax december 2006
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Exotic Tastes
Interesting words related to food, ingredients, dishes, cookery, cuisines and so on. Exotic in this case is entirely subjective, with funkelberries on top.
tatty, neep, flummery, babaganoush, tahini, samphire, loblolly, scrumpy, fressen, luwak, duxelle, edamame and 213 more...
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Tamsin Harriman's Favourite Words
Words I love the sound of :)
rigmarole, thrive, hauteur, vichyssoise, terroir, risqué, crisply, effervesce, cinnamon, tapenade, clementine, umami and 8 more...
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Eating Words
eat, fret, frass, etch, ort, edacious, edible, escarole, esculent, esurient, comedo, comestible and 49 more...
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Restaurants, Menus and Cookbooks
aperitif, kumquat, aspic, digestif, ceviche, beignet, fritter, zabaglione, spumoni, gyro, pistou, brioche and 15 more...
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freshelectrons's Words
escalade, bokeh, fickle, pandemonium, labyrinth, escarole, chanterelle, hooptedoodle, rapscallion, scrobble, holon, phatic and 4 more...
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