Yotam Ottolenghi

As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

Israeli Chef

Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

Sorrel is used in cooking for its tangy, slightly sour taste.

Culinary Uses

Often found in recipes for soups to give a lemony flavor.

Soup Ingredient

While some sorrel leaves are reddish, they can also be green.

Not Always Red

Sorrel as an adjective often describes the distinctive coat of a horse.

Horse Color

The color varies from light reddish-brown to more vibrant shades.

Color Nuance

Can be used to describe any similar-colored animal or object, not only horses.

Not Just Horses

 smoked it again d hi it covered it in mushroom duxelle which is a paste made from mushrooms white wine garlic and onions wrapped it in beet greens and then in puff pastry and baked it like you would a Wellington I served it with creamed sorrel smoked and

Elevating simple...

 and eating wild food. So if anyone's ever convinced you to try dandelions or wood sorrel, congratulations, you're a forager too. When my mom told me that there was a bunch of free food