Chicory is a leafy vegetable that looks like lettuce but tastes more bitter. It is a hearty cool-weather crop that can bring an earthy bite to salads, stir-fries, and other dishes during fall and winter.
There are different types of chicory to grow, coming in varying colors, leaf shapes, and flavors. Some varieties are solely grown for the leafy heads, but others are cultivated for the roots and can be forced for harvests of sweeter young leaves.
