Definition of "escarole" [escarole]

• A variety of endive (Cichorium endivia) having leaves with irregular frilled edges and often used in salads. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."