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.

Rocket leaves, a.k.a arugula, contribute a range of bioactive compounds and add a delightful peppery note to dishes.

A tasty 'cut and come again' rocket producing masses of attractive strong-flavoured wild rocket leaves. Ideal for salads or cooking, it can be harvested all summer.

Fresh arugula or rocket leaves salad, rucola, top view

Learn how to sow and grow the delicious, peppery leaves of rocket in five quick steps.

Rocket can be grown year-round, although the cooler temperatures in spring and autumn produce the best crops. Words: Jenny Somervell You can almost overlook rocket when it’s hidden amongst mild, crunchy mesclun greens. Until you strike that sudden peppery ‘bite’. At least, that’s how I discovered it. It gives the biter pause. In my teenage years, rocket was unheard of. Like many interesting new greens, it came sneaking in on the salad revolution in the mid-1980s, wisely appearing undercover…

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

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!

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