The rocket salad is a vegetable widely used in Northern Italian cuisine: its leaves, which have an oblong shape with notched tips, enrich vegetarian or meat-based dishes, pizza and pasta thanks to their slightly spicy flavour.
Rocket salad is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family originated in the Mediterranean basin. Known mainly by the name of rucola, the Euroca Sativa is also called ruchetta or rughetta according to the Italian region.