Raab Cima di Rapa

[Shortie]

Anyone eaten this month's freebie before? Never seen it before but am interested. It says good in stir fries and salads but can anyone tell me what it tastes similar to (if anything) and/or good recipies to bring out the flavour?

[sewer rat]

Shortie
I've neither heard of nor seen it before but "have seed, must sow". Have to say I am really impressed with the mags content this month too. It's ALL good stuff.

[Lesley Jay]

I have never heard of it before either but the seeds are going in! Getting my OH to eat the stuff is another matter though. Maybe stir fried with oyster sauce?

[nick the grief]

I thought that was Gaelic rather than the variety name

[Strepsy]

Just found this info on vidaverde.co.uk. Looks good.

'~ RAPINI (BROCCOLI RAAB) ~

'What's this then?' you say. . . . well, its easy to grow and loved on the continent. We introduced this a couple of years ago and it was a huge success - everyone seemed to like it!
Rapini is used like sprouting broccoli, but comes much more quickly. This isn't just a replacement for broccoli, but a great vegetable in its own right.

You can put the leaves and sprouts in salads, or cook them as a green. But unlike broccoli, it's ready to pick in as little as 6 weeks!

Cima Di Rapa (40 day strain) HUGELY POPULAR LAST YEAR
Unlike normal broccoli, which is from the cabbage family, Broccoli Raab is related to turnip - but grows the same as broccoli & produces delicious sprouts like a slightly spicy flavoured sprouting broccoli.

It can be useful as it comes ready when ordinary broccoli isn't available, and is great as a very early spring crop in a polytunnel. The sprouts and leaves are cooked just as broccoli, but thinnings are also excellent in salads or stirfries.

Sow in March under cover, or mid to late summer for harvest 40 days later.

Spicy first-early 'broccoli' derived from the Turnip family. Nice raw in salads or cooked.'

[Nicos]

Am looking forward to trying it!

[Berr]

Me? I'm going to lash out on a copy of the mag. "Raab Cima di Rapa"! For all I know it could mean camels' eyeballs in aspic but what a wonderfully evocative name; it sounds like something you'd pick young, green and succulent and wheech into your stir fry at the last minute. (note: aspiring cook).A really seductive freebie, methinks.
(Bet it would fit into your prawn recipe, Nico.)

[Nicos]

Or go with a freshly caught fish eh?

[bramble]

It could also be young, green and single. How about that then? :0

[andrewo]

Has anyone noticed that Cima Di Rapa sounds like a name of a rap artist from Israel singing at the Eurovision song contest? God knows what Terry Wogan would make of him of her...or both...