How to Get Food From a Chicory Plant
- 1). Learn well how to identify a chicory plant--absolutely and without a doubt. The chickory can grow to be 5 or 6 feet tall if left unchecked. It possesses a cluster of dandelion-like leaves at its base with light blue flowers growing higher up (though they only open up on very sunny days). The chicory grows at the edges of lawns, along roadsides, in gardens and anywhere else you might expect to find a weed.
- 2). Locate a chicory plant.
- 3). Harvest the chicory plant's young leaves. These can be boiled and eaten the same way you might boil and eat any green vegetable. They are also edible raw, as in a salad.
- 4). Harvest the chicory's roots, then boil them like a vegetable and eat.
- 5). Harvest the chicory's flowers. These are edible raw or boiled.
