What does amaranth mean?
Chef's answer
1 : any of a large genus (Amaranthus of the family Amaranthaceae, the amaranth family) of coarse annual herbs with clusters of small green, dark pink, red, or purplish flowers and including forms cultivated as food crops and various pigweeds. 2 : a flower that never fades..
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Amaranthus hybridus (smooth pigweed).
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They readily regenerate if watered, and the young growth can be cropped at fortnightly intervals during summer. Red leaved cultivars turn a rather mournful deep mauve when cooked, but if the cooking liquid is saved to cook rice it will turn it a glorious claret-purple colour..
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