In our vegetable box last week we got some Skorzonerrødder which we generally just call sticky sticks. They are muddy roots which you peel and eat like most root vegetables - boiled or roasted. When you peel the dirty brown outside off, they are white-ish inside but secrete some sort of sticky stuff which you can't seem to wash off your hands so you need to wear gloves when you are preparing them.
I think they are supposed to be a poor mans asparagus, but I think that is doing them an injustice as they are really nice on their own, sort of like a parsnip but with a subtle asparagussy flavour.
So far, I can't find an english name for them - does anyone know what they are called?
Apparantly the plant is
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I thought that they were "invisible sticky parsnips", but I'm probably wrong, I usually am.
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They're visible now.
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Salsify - pronounced salsiffy - is what it is called in English. Part of the sunflower family along with "goatsbeard" a wildflower I've seen in England. You are eating the young roots.
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Google translate confirms Salsify
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