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In British cooking, what is a 'rocket'?

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In British cooking, what is a 'rocket'?

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  1. dont people refer to asparagus as rocket... hmm not too sure!!

    er no actuali now i think of it it spear there called..

    Would it be rocket lettuce your on about?


  2. This was a totally new salad green served up frequently while i was on holiday in Turkey ,i liked it's peppery flavour & managed to get seeds to plant in my garden,I fear the Indian summer will not be kind to this lovely green salad plant ,so i will be patient till the monsoon cools our surroundings .Reading up all i could about rocket i came to know it is called arugula among other names .

  3. it is a salad vegetable...grown wild... and nowadays it is grow commerically and all year round....

    Spicy in taste.... great with salty ham...

  4. salad leaf with rough edges ...  looks abit like a dandelion leaf.. what rabbits like..

  5. Arugula

    http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/arugula.htm

  6. its arugula--kinda peppery...leafy green

  7. That's what it is, a pungent zestful green leafy vegetable.

  8. As the first answer says a salad leaf with a peppery taste.

  9. its a lettace.

  10. Type of salad leaf

    kinda peppery in taste

  11. A salad leaf, with quite a bitter, peppery taste!! Really good!!

  12. Asalad leaf very dark green in colour.

  13. Blue orchid is spot on with her answer but it is also a very popular italian salad accompanied by generous amount of shaved parmesan

  14. "Rocket" = Arugula

  15. its a kind of lettuce,
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