I have written at length about sea purslane twice before, on both occasions dismissively treating it as an ‘also-ran’ in the wild food stakes. But fashion and food science move on, so this time I will not be damning it with faint praise: sea purslane is rich in health-endowing nutrients and is useful in many dishes.
Sea purslane is a plant that lives just above the tidal zone in estuarine habitats, notably saltmarshes. Here, it can grow in vast, sinuous, grey-green carpets. It can and must tolerate levels of salt, since ‘just above the tidal zone’ is very
