This year I planted four plants, and I have a generous basked full of tubers. Raw they have a lovely crunchy apple/cucumber like mild flavour (peel the skin and the white part) - great for a salad.
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Yakking about Yacon
I've grown yacon for a two years now, but I realise I've never posted about it -thanks Dixiebelle for the reminder . What is it? I hear you ask - it's a crunchy tuber vegetable, aka Peruvian Ground Apple . I've grown it successfully here in the least frosty part of the garden near the water tank - always planting out after the last frost has passed.
This year I planted four plants, and I have a generous basked full of tubers. Raw they have a lovely crunchy apple/cucumber like mild flavour (peel the skin and the white part) - great for a salad.
Last night I made a pork stir-fry and cut up some chunks of yacon (the pale/translucent chunks in the right photo) to include with the courgette, basil and mushroom. I must say it was pretty good - it retained a crunch (a bit like water chestnuts), but also soaked up the flavours of the sauce (a mix of mirin, tamari and fish sauce). Served with rice it was a dinner winner!
This year I planted four plants, and I have a generous basked full of tubers. Raw they have a lovely crunchy apple/cucumber like mild flavour (peel the skin and the white part) - great for a salad.
Oooh I'll have to look into that, looks like a lovely vege. How're the rest of the crops going with the end of winter frosts?
ReplyDeleteI have just planted yakon this year, and looking forward to tasting it. It sounds like my kind of plant.
ReplyDelete@Vivienne - alas the end of frosts are some time away - our last frost date is normally in November! Not much in the ground at the moment due to my long absence, but the few cabbages and collards that are over-wintering put on a spurt in last week's warmer weather. Back to 6 and rain this week!
ReplyDelete@Africanaussie - let us know how you get on with them - I found them very easy to grow