Kitchen Garden Forum

Anyone ever heard ot these. Bought by the OH from Morrissons yesterday.A vegetable purporting to come from China. Advice is to use it as you would a spud. Oval in shape with a mottled type skin and very white flesh. Can be boiled,fried,mashed etc. Had some yesterday boiled and today boiled and then fried. It definitely has a texture and taste not unsimilar to spuds,it is certaintly worth trying again.I cant find any reference to it in books or the internet.

Morning John

Try looking up Eddoes

http://www.itzcaribbean.com/eddoes_caribbean_food.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddoe

We some a few weeks ago from a fruit & veg market stall which usually stocks a small selection of "Queer Gear" as I heard one neighbour call it. (Mind you, I think even a mushroom would hover on her definition of "queer".

We tried boiling them like potatoes, and found they did have a slightly similar flavour and texture, but for the price being charged we were somewhaty underwhelmed and probably wouldn't buy them again unless we could find a really interesting recipe for using them.

You got it spot on Alan,looks like Morrissons or Tescos have got their spelling wrong.They are definitely the vegetable in question.Thanks for your help. JP.