KAILAN

Kai-lan

Kai-lan is the Cantonese name for a vegetable that is also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale. It is a leaf vegetable featuring thick, flat, glossy blue-green leaves with thick stems and a small number of tiny, almost vestigial flower heads similar to those of broccoli. Broccoli and kai-lan belong to the same species Brassica oleracea, but kai-lan is in the group alboglabra albus+glabrus white and hairless. Its flavor is very similar to that of broccoli, but slightly more bitter. It is also noticeably stronger.

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