Possible Clues:

• Diced chard I twice cook, tossing out OK salad vegetable
• Chicory with purple leaves — a CID choir (anag)
• Variety of chicory
• I'd a chicory variety - not unknown, this?
• Salad ingredient set around final four portions of gnocchi
• Italian leaves receiver to ring two hundred with friendly greeting
• Italian variety of chicory, eaten raw in salads
• Set including Conservative character leaves bitter taste
• Leaves, in no state for radical chic — raving with love
• Purple-leaved variety of chicory