The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
In the Netherlands, winter purslane is in season October to March, at its best in November, December, January and February. Winter purslane is in season now, in November, and this is the peak.
Winter purslane is the other Dutch winter salad leaf, picked from October to March, often in unheated tunnels.
Round, fleshy leaves with a stalk through the middle.
Vitamin C, beta-carotene, iron and omega-3 fatty acids, like its summer cousin.
To get the most: Raw, soon after picking. A light wilt is fine; long cooking is not.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Eat raw as a salad or wilt briefly like spinach.
6 producers in The Field Guide sell winter purslane, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 172 growers passed our bar for this food group; we have not yet recorded what each of them grows, so ask them or search the map.
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