Valerianella locusta is a small annual plant that is eaten as a leaf vegetable.
It has a characteristic nutty flavour, dark green colour, and soft texture, and is popularly served as salad greens.
Common names include corn salad, common cornsalad, lamb's lettuce, mâche (/mɑːʃ/), fetticus, feldsalat, nut lettuce, field salad.
In restaurants that feature French cooking, it may be called doucette or raiponce, as an alternative to mâche, by which it is best known.
In German-speaking Switzerland it is known as Nüsslisalat or Nüssler, terms that have been borrowed by the area's many English speakers.
It is typically served as a salad with chopped hard-boiled eggs and crumbled bacon.
Valerianella locusta is a small annual plant that is eaten as a leaf vegetable. It has a characteristic nutty flavour, dark green colour, and soft texture, and is popularly served as salad greens. Common names include corn salad, common cornsalad, lamb's lettuce, mâche (/mɑːʃ/), fetticus, feldsalat, nut lettuce, field salad. In restaurants that feature French cooking, it may be called doucette or raiponce, as an alternative to mâche, by which it is best known. In German-speaking Switzerland it is known as Nüsslisalat or Nüssler, terms that have been borrowed by the area's many English speakers. It is typically served as a salad with chopped hard-boiled eggs and crumbled bacon.
Valerianella locusta