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Pissenlit
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Pissenlit is the French kitchen dandelion: often the salad with hot bacon and vinegar, sometimes blanched. The name is the dish culture as much as the plant. A bistro salad. Cultivated leaves are what most cooks should buy.
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Preparations
Au LardBistro
Traits
Bacon SaladFrenchFrench KitchenNamed DishNot RoadsideSpringVinegar Hot
History
FR
Pissenlit au lard made dandelion a named French salad.
FR
Market pissenlit was a spring green in French greengrocers.
Bistro menus abroad kept the pissenlit name for dandelion bacon salad.