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What (who) is LEEKS - definition
Leek
![''Still life with leeks'' by [[Carl Schuch]] ([[National Museum, Warsaw]])](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Schuch Still life.jpg?width=200 "''Still life with leeks'' by [[Carl Schuch]] ([[National Museum, Warsaw]])")
![Leek field in [[Houthulst]], Belgium](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Preiveld R01.jpg?width=200 "Leek field in [[Houthulst]], Belgium")
![Still life of leeks and [[thyme]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leeks and Thyme.jpg?width=200 "Still life of leeks and [[thyme]]")
VEGETABLE IN THE ONION FAMILY
Leeks; Allium porrum; Allium porum; Leek (vegetable); Japanese scallion; Garden leek
·noun A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.
Leek
VEGETABLE IN THE ONION FAMILY
Leeks; Allium porrum; Allium porum; Leek (vegetable); Japanese scallion; Garden leek
The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek (syn. Allium porrum).
leek
VEGETABLE IN THE ONION FAMILY
Leeks; Allium porrum; Allium porum; Leek (vegetable); Japanese scallion; Garden leek
¦ noun a plant related to the onion, with flat overlapping leaves forming an elongated cylindrical bulb which together with the leaf bases is eaten as a vegetable. [Allium porrum.]
Origin
OE leac, of Gmc origin.
Examples of use of LEEKS
1. Caldino used potatoes instead of leeks in his pumpkin soup.
2. Accompany with leeks and small carrots steam–cooked.
3. Smokey Fish Stew Ingredients: 125g bacon 2 leeks 500g of any smoked fish 1 litre milk 1 cup cream Some chives 1 tsp salt Method: Fry the bacon until the fat comes away from it and add the chopped leeks.
4. It might also have been combined with mashed potatoes and leeks in a version of colcannon.
5. Create chicken stock by boiling the bones with vegetables like carrot chunks, leeks, onions and celery.