How to Use escarole in a Sentence

escarole

noun
  • Shake the pan and when the escarole starts to wilt, turn off heat.
    — Claudia Alexander, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Swap in kale, endive or escarole.
    — Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Feel free to swap in other leafy greens; spinach, escarole, kale, and collard greens are all good choices.
    — Special To The Denver Post, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Skip the soft lettuces, which tend to get squashed in a big salad, and start with sturdier greens, like kale or escarole.
    — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 20 June 2017
  • Green escarole is a member of the family (as is frisée, curly endive).
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • At first glance escarole could be mistaken for lettuce; the bitter green is a good choice for salads and soups.
    — Shelli McConnell, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Warm up some leftover gravy or pan juices with big handfuls of greens, such as spinach or escarole, just until wilted and served atop crusty bread.
    — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Stir for 20 seconds then toss in the escarole and using tongs, turn the wet leaves to cover them with garlic.
    — Claudia Alexander, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
  • While soup is simmering, separate leaves from 1 head of escarole and rinse to remove any dirt.
    — Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit, 30 Apr. 2018
  • There’s chicken under a brick, pressed flat, tattooed with sumac, served with escarole and rosemary brown butter.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • Minestra is a simple soup of greens and beans — escarole and white cannellinis for our family.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Try escarole, spinach, collard or dandelion greens, frisée, or arugula.
    — Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
  • Any kind of green – escarole, Swiss chard, kale or beet leaves, to name a few – could be substituted for the broccoli rabe.
    — Linda Giuca and Christopher Prosperi, courant.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Sometimes made even more complète with a garlicky, acidic escarole salad mounded right on top and a bottle of the local hard cider to drink.
    — Gabrielle Hamilton, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Transfer to a cutting board and repeat with remaining escarole.
    — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Mild, leafy butter lettuce helps tie it all together, but slightly bitter chicories like frisée, escarole or endive would work well, too.
    — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Curly endive and escarole tend to be readily available, but require just the right dressing to counter their bitter toughness.
    — Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Reduce heat to medium-low, fold in beans, and cook until escarole is tender and beans are heated through, 2 to 3 minutes more.
    — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The backbone of the menu is still penne and escarole and chicken alla griglia, drawn from a Little Italy that is not much more than a name these days.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Serve escarole mixture over polenta with lemon wedges and extra Parmesan, if desired.
    — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The house soup is a hearty sausage and escarole ($6) desperately seeking seasoning.
    — Spencer Caldwell, courant.com, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Light-as-air ricotta dumplings replace the classic meatballs in a nourishing broth peppered with fennel and escarole.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 28 Feb. 2025
  • This classic spin on chicken noodle soup includes delicious little meatballs, scoopable noodles, and bright green escarole.
    — Lizzy Briskin, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The menu here is filled with cucina classics like gnocchi with sage and brown butter, along with French staples like duck confit over an escarole salad with duck fat potatoes.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Mesclun or baby leaf combines different types of salad greens — lettuces, endives, radicchio, escarole, and arugula.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The soup of the day on our visit was Italian wedding, a straight-forward version of the classic with succulent meatballs, tender escarole and pastina.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 26 May 2017
  • His three-course deal for customers includes chicken meatballs with escarole and cannellini beans for appetizer, lasagna rustica for dinner, and tiramisu for dessert.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
  • For the novice farmer or, perhaps more likely, the dreamer living vicariously through food and farming books, these volumes pair as naturally as olive oil and escarole.
    — Forrest Pritchard, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Calling to me most right now are agnolotti stuffed with herbed goat cheese and brightened with flowers, and shells that catch their topping of pancetta, escarole and sunny egg so that every bite delivers carbonara bliss.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • Whole roasted artichoke with aioli and bright gremolata, stracci (a flat pasta) tossed in kale and walnut pesto, and duck with brothy borlotti beans and escarole are some of the new dishes on the menu.
    — Claire Ballor staff Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026

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