Purslane
Portulaca oleraceaAlso called Moss Rose, Pig Weed and portulaca oleracea
Purslane is a vegetable with edible buds, leaves, and stems. It has a mucilaginous texture and can be eaten raw, boiled, simmered, or used in stews and stir-fries. It pairs with tomato, garlic, feta, and yogurt.
- Plant-based
- Gluten-free
- No listed allergens
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Vegetables
- Part used
- Bud, leaf, stem
- Family
- Portulacaceae
- Texture
- Mucilaginous
- Cooked most in
- Europe
- Top country
- France
- Dishes
- 2 in the catalogue
Photo: Robert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use purslane
Flavour
Taste and texture
Texture
- Mucilaginous
On the table
Dishes made with purslane
Mesclun
France
Bîstan
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include purslane.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: purslane in detail
- Allergens
- None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
- Animal origin
- No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
- Gluten
- None
- Alcohol
- None
- Caffeine
- None
- Pork
- None
Around the world
What purslane is called
Spanish
Portulaca oleracea · Nuncamuere · Borzolaga · Salada de negro
French
Portulaca oleracea · Pourpier · Pourpier commun · Porcelane
Italian
Portulaca oleracea · Porcellana comune · Erba porcellana · Purciddana
Portuguese
beldroegas
German
Portulak · Portulaca oleracea · Gemüse-Portulak · Portulaca sativa
Dutch
postelein · Portulaca oleracea
Greek
Αντράκλα · Ανδράχλη · Γλυστιρίδα · Γλυστρίδα
Turkish
Semizotu · Portulaca oleracea · Semiz otu
Russian
Портулак огородный · Portulaca oleracea · Портулак овощной · Куриный след
Polish
Portulaka pospolita · Portulaca oleracea · Portulaka warzywna
Arabic
رجلة · فرفحين · بقلة مباركة · بقلة
Persian
پرپهن · پرپین
Show all 103 languages
Abkhazian
Абадырбҕьы
Achinese
Bileueng
acm
بربين
Akan
Portulaca oleracea
Albanian
Portulaca oleracea
Aragonese
Portulaca oleracea
Armenian
Դանդուռ սովորական
Asturian
Portulaca oleracea · Verdolaga
Azerbaijani
Dirrik pərpərəni · Portulaca oleracea
Bangla
বড়ো নুনিয়া · লুনে শাক
Basque
Getozka · Portulaca oleracea
Belarusian
Партулак агародны · Партулак звычайны · Portulaca oleracea
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
партулак агародны
Bhojpuri
नोनीया साग
Brazilian Portuguese
Portulaca oleracea
Bulgarian
тученица · Portulaca oleracea
Cantonese
瓜子菜
Catalan
Verdolaga · Portulaca oleracea · pourpier
Cebuano
Portulaca oleracea
Central Kurdish
پەڵپینە
Chinese
马齿苋 · 五行草 · 马蛇子菜 · 酸苋
Corsican
Erba fratesca · Portulaca oleracea · Arba fratesca
Croatian
tušt
Czech
šrucha zelná · šrucha obecná · portulák · kuří noha
Divehi
ގެދަ
Egyptian Arabic
رجله
Esperanto
Legoma portulako · Portulaca oleracea
Estonian
harilik portulak · Portulaca oleracea
Extremaduran
Portulaca oleracea
Filipino
Portulaca oleracea · Pang-karaniwang gulasiman · Pangkaraniwang kulasiman · Pigweed
Finnish
vihannesportulakka · Portulaca oleracea
Galician
beldroega
Haitian Creole
Koupye
Hebrew
רגלת הגינה · פרפכינה · פרפחינא · ריג'לה
Hindi
पोर्टुलाका ओलेरासिया या पर्सलेन
Hungarian
kövér porcsin · Portulaca oleracea
Icelandic
Súpugull
Ido
Portulako
Igbo
Portulaca oleracea
Indonesian
Gelang biasa · Portulaca oleracea
Interlingua
Portulaca oleracea
Interlingue
Portulaca oleracea
Irish
Portulaca oleracea
Japanese
スベリヒユ · 馬歯見 · ポーチュラカ · 馬歯筧
Kabyle
Bugel
kai
Luusìn mà Kwàm
Kashmiri
نُنَر
Kazakh
Бақша қараоты
Korean
쇠비름 · 쇠비름꽃
Kurdish
Pirpar
Kurdish (Arabic)
پرپار
Kurdish (Latin)
Pirpar
Latin
Portulaca · Portulaca oleracea
Latvian
dārza portulaka
Lithuanian
Paprastoji portulaka · pourpier
Macedonian
толчница · обична толчница · тушт
Malay
Gelang pasir · Pokok Rumput Beremi · Pokok Gelang Pasir · Pokok Segan Jantan
Malayalam
കൊഴുപ്പ · Portulaca oleracea · ഉപ്പുചീര
Manchu
ᠸᡝᡥᡝ ᡶᡳᠶᡝᠯᡝᠨ
Marathi
घोळ
Mazanderani
پرپین
Mirandese
bordelagas
mnw
ဗၠံင်ဗၠေတ်၊ တၞံ
Moroccan Arabic
أرغليم
Navajo
Tséghániłchʼi
Neapolitan
Përkakkia
Nepali
नुनढिकी झार
Norwegian Bokmål
portulakk
Occitan
Portulaca oleracea
Ossetic
Цæхдонгæрдæг
Pampanga
Saitsaitan
Piedmontese
Portulaca oleracea
Romanian
Portulacă · Iarba grasa
Serbian
Тушт · Portulaca oleracea
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Тушт
Serbian (Latin)
Tušt
Serbian (Latin)
Tušt
Simplified Chinese
马齿苋
Simplified Chinese (China)
马齿苋
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
马齿苋
Sindhi
لوڻڪ
Sinhala
ගෙඳ · Portulaca oleracea
Slovak
portulaka zeleninová
Slovenian
navadni tolščak · Portulaca oleracea · portulak
Swedish
Portlak · Portulaca oleracea · pourpier
szy
nipaluma-sanglacay kuliya, sanglacay koliya
Tajik
Хурфа
Tamil
தரைக்கீரை · பருப்புக்கீரை
Thai
คุณนายตื่นสาย · Portulaca grandiflora
Tongan
Tamole · Portulaca johnii · Portulaca samoensis · Portulaca oleracea
Traditional Chinese
馬齒莧
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
馬齒莧
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
馬齒莧
Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)
بليبشة
Ukrainian
Портулак городній · Portulaca oleracea
Upper Sorbian
Jědźny portłak
Uzbek
Semizoʻt
Vietnamese
rau sam · Portulaca oleracea
Volapük
Portulaca oleracea
Waray
Portulaca sativa
Welsh
Porpin
Wu Chinese
马齿苋
Zaza
Pumpar
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikidata item: Q158015
Photos
Photo: Robert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons