rocket salad meaning

Noun: rocket salad

Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- rocket, roquette, garden rocket, arugula [N. Amer], Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa

Derived forms: rocket salads

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: Eruca, genus Eruca

Examples

Beef on the bone has become the rocket salad _ or whatever the latest fashionable food is _ of the moment.
Nowadays, we are experimenting a lot with home produce such as lobsters from Sabah and rocket salad leaf from Genting Highlands.
As Ireland prospered, with the help of grants from the European Union and investments from the United States, he came home and developed dishes like tempura sardines served with a warm mango, ginger and rocket salad.
Betsey had eggs Benedict, made not with the usual Canadian bacon but with a thick slice of five-spice ham, cured by Ed Hick, whom the McKennas'guides call Ireland's best pork butcher, and a tart rocket salad.