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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on April 22, 2019, 10:52:21 AM

Title: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: JohnnyD on April 22, 2019, 10:52:21 AM

Clare and I had a nice week on Crete a couple of weeks ago, despite the terrible weather until the last few days.
One highlight though was this truly fabulous salad at at Goules taverna in Goulediana.
Served in a pitta bread bowl, the ingredients were 'mostly' recognisable, although they included the plant shown below.
The owner wrote down the name - akoupvonodoi - which appears to translate as acupuncture???
The principle of the restaurant is to use locally foraged herbs according to 'Grandmas' recipes', without really knowing what they all are.
Any ideas anyone?
JohnnyD

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: arisaema on April 22, 2019, 11:42:19 AM

Caucalis?

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: Hannelore on April 22, 2019, 12:26:21 PM

Coriander?

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Cilantro-alsterdrache.jpg)

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: Carolyn on April 22, 2019, 01:22:39 PM

I don't think it is coriander, as the leaflets of coriander are in pairs, whereas the leaflets in JohnnyD's photo are alternate.

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: JohnnyD on April 24, 2019, 10:10:33 AM

Thanks for your suggestions guys but I fancy the only way I could resolve this is to go back and try to get the original plant in the wild.  ;D
Probably not until next spring though.  :(
JohnnyD

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: Jupiter on April 24, 2019, 12:07:56 PM

It reminds me a lot of our Australian native herb called sea parsley (Apium prostratum). I don't know how it would be in Crete. More likely an indigenous Apiaceae I guess...

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: Afloden on April 24, 2019, 07:17:20 PM

Probably Oenanthe pimpinelloides.

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: David Nicholson on April 24, 2019, 08:46:54 PM

Quote from: JohnnyD on April 24, 2019, 10:10:33 AM

Thanks for your suggestions guys but I fancy the only way I could resolve this is to go back and try to get the original plant in the wild.  ;D
Probably not until next spring though.  :(
JohnnyD

I'd stick to fish and chips if I were you!

Title: Re: Secret salad ingredient!
Post by: JohnnyD on April 29, 2019, 09:05:42 AM

Have checked out Apium prostratum and Oenanthe pimpinelloides but am coming round to thinking it might be chervil Anthriscus cerefolium.
The only reason is, I saw it in a salad on one of the cooking progs on TV.
Still think it might be easier to just go back to Crete and have another salad!!!!!! :P :P :P :P :P
JohnnyD