could you eat it? Poi Taro stuff
I am not sure about the flour made out of it or products made from it. I have had the chips, like potato chips made from taro and they are pretty good!
hummmm sounds tempting.... but pancakes... might need to ask aloha about it...
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Oh, yes...just cut up the mature tuber and fry like potato chips. In fact, they are eaten for the starch and high in Magnesium (I think).
Carol
aloha,
so your saying we can eat the blub? makes since the mengla bad seed sent me last year I have read where you can eat them for a potatoe. isnt' there something about the leaves you can do too like suck on them... but it has to be the ones with the red dot on them? you can chew on them but not swallow them...
Taro, being an aroid, can be full of oxalic acid. The leaves are boiled in 2 waters like spinach.....
Kailua Pig: Take a rump roast, cut it up and put it in a cassarole dish you have lined with taro leaves, like 2 deep, then cover with taro leaves...about 3 or 4 deep. Pour a can of non fat chicken brother over it, cover with alum foil and bake for about 3 hours. You eat everything!!! Taro is wonderful.
You can also take the chunks of pork and wrap it with the taro leaves, tie with string and steam for about 3 hours. The first recipe is the "pot luck version...easier.
For both...use the young leaves...not the old tough ones. Those can be really full of oxalic acid. Sometimes sailing in the S. Pacific Taro would be the only "green" we would get!!!
I don't know anything about sucking on them...or red dots. There are many kinds of taro...and the part I don't like is that every 8 months they need to be "renovated"....the old plants cut off the tubers , then stripped of old leaves. This is then called a Huli...the hulis are replanted. Taro is planted as a food crop not as an ornamental.
Hope this helps
i was just making dinner and cooked pork in tamarind soup. taro is the "potato" in this asian stew.
we (filipinos) also eat the leaves. usually sauteed in garlic, onions, then simmered in coconut cream.
awesome info, carol. mahalo!