Rocket leaves

Rocket leaves or popularly known as arugula or salad rocket is nutritious green-leafy vegetable. The young tender leaves carry a bitter peppery flavor that makes it mostly a salad vegetable.

Get the scoop on rocket vs arugula. Are they the same? Not as popular as kale but a tasty, healthy option for eating your greens!

Fresh arugula or rocket leaves salad, rucola, top view

This is an easy salad to make. You can use any type of lettuce leaves you like, but rocket leaves are best, giving it a sharp edge. You can use any vinaigrette of choice. Serves 4

With a distinct leaf similar in shape to that of the oak tree Arugula (Eruca sativa.) often referred to as rocket is a nutritional powerhouse. This mineral rich salad plant has a peppery flavour and is used as a main component or garnish in many culinary dishes both modern and old. Supply dietary minerals - Rocket can offer our body’s a wide range of essential minerals including iron and copper, this can be useful for people suffering from anemic conditions. Natural aphrodisiac – First used…

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Eggs & Rocket Leaves with Croutons is a very satisfying, complete meal, and very nutritious too. It's vegetarian and can be made gluten-free!

Closeup of three rocket leaves

Perfect in pesto, delicious in dips … this slightly peppery green is one of the fastest growing herbs with many bonus health benefits. With both culinary and medicinal uses, find out how to grow and use this low-maintenance high value herb.

Homemade Rocket Pesto is an easy recipe to serve as a dip, sauce or spread. Throw everything in the food processor and blitz! #easyrecipe #pestorecipe #spreads #dips #appetizers @sweetcaramelsunday

Arugula leaves isolated on white background. Closeup fresh wild rocket leaves on white background top view.

This rocket, pear and walnut salad is fresh, tasty and healthy. It has peppery rocket leaves, crispy and crunchy pears, and toasted walnuts. It’s topped with shaved parmesan and tangy balsamic reduction. This simple salad is a powerhouse of flavour and vitamins.

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Wall Rocket, Annual wallrocket. Diplotaxis muralis. Leaves are eaten raw. They can be finely chopped and added sparingly to salads or used as a flavouring for cooked dishes. A piquant flavour, somewhat resembling rocket (Eruca sativa), but with a sharp aftertaste.

This easy rocket and parmesan recipe combines peppery rocket leaves with nutty parmesan, perfect for a healthy lunch or side. Quick to make and full of flavour!

Diplotaxis tenuifolia A standout variety. Wildfire infuses salads beginning with a sweet taste followed by a spicy peppery kick. Produces soft, serrated leaves that adds a wild quality to salad blends because it is less uniform in leaf shape and size standard wild rocket. Pkt contains 400-500 sds.

Rocket is a versatile and super productive veggie. 🤩 You can enjoy the young and tender leaves in your salads or wait for the mature leaves for a peppery kick. Taking up to 8 weeks to be ready to pick, rocket grows quickly and easily. Plus, its a lovely leafy green and look great in the vegie patch. Rocket is a compact variety that grows beautifully in most gardens. Best of all, you can sow rocket all around Australia in winter. Happy sowing! 🌿 #RocketDreams #GardenHarvestJoy #VeggieVibes…

Roasted Sweet potato, rocket leaves and a hung curd dressing. This is a salad you will fall in love with and ready in under 30 minutes as well

"Wild Rocket differs from it’s wider leafed cousin Salad Rocket in a number of ways. Although both are brassicas, wild rocket is perennial and happy in my micro climate throughout the year. It flowers and self seeds happily, while producing leaves without any trace of bitterness." Advice from: Suburban Tomato, Melbourne, Australia