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11542760 No.11542760 [Reply] [Original]

Hey, /ck/.

I'm looking to find a Nepali dish that's comprised of a root (or something) that looks similar to this.

It was described to me as being buttery and nutty, and it was prepared sauteed in butter.

Anybody have any ideas? It could also be Tibetan due to proximity.

>> No.11542763

I would peel it and roast it, diced.

then mash it up with a food processor or a ricer or a fork, whatever you've got, and stuff momo with them (flour and water dumplings). Sesame tomato chutney is my favorite (sesame seeds, tomato sauce, cilantro, and a bit o chili).

>> No.11542798

>>11542763

Thank you, but I was more trying to track down a Nepali ingredient and I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. It's supposed to be a thing that the person wasn't sure if it was a root vegetable or a fungus, and apparently it looked 'squash like'.

(Though I'm going to look into that sesame tomato chutney, that shit sounds delicious)

>> No.11542807

>>11542798
It is a root vegetable.

>> No.11542809

>>11542798
taro?

>> No.11542816

>>11542809
no, burdock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctium

Burdock root is very crisp and has a sweet, mild, and pungent flavour with a little muddy harshness that can be reduced by soaking julienned or shredded roots in water for five to ten minutes.

>> No.11542817

>>11542809

She is pretty sure it isn't taro. She said that it was longer and thinner, maybe, and that it didn't taste similar when she made it herself using taro.

>>11542807

What is? The burdock root was just to give an example of what the root vegetable I'm looking for kind of looks like.

>> No.11542827

>>11542817
Are you fucking retarded?

>> No.11542835

>>11542827

No, I'm looking for a Nepali/Tibetan root vegetable that looks similar to the burdock root. I don't think that it tastes similar.

>> No.11542837

>>11542835
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_cocoyam

and you are too fucking retarded to google "nepalese root"

>> No.11542842

>>11542837
So, is this it OP?

>> No.11542846

>>11542837
>>11542842

Yeah, I've been doing that for the last couple of hours and can't find it, thus the posting here. It's long, thin, and fairly nutty. She couldn't tell if it was a root vegetable or some sort of fungus, and she had it in Nepal. The cocoyam is not it.

I realize that it SEEMS like I'm just an incapable retard, but I have no idea how to even start looking outside of googling 'tibetan root vegetable' or 'nepalese/nepali root vegetable' and sifting through image results, which is what I did for a long while before consulting /ck/.

>> No.11542850

>>11542816
Definitely burdock. Japanese like it as well and it is available in some Japanese grocery stores. IMO it's best braised, it's fucking delicious, particularly when combined with other root vegetables like taro, potato, yam, sweet potato, etc.

>> No.11542851

>>11542846
Malanga.

>> No.11542863

>>11542851
>>11542850

As per her description: "Completely smooth on the outside, less than a centimeter in size, pale brown on the inside. Smooth, mild, nutty flavor, a little like a very mild white mushroom when they're raw. The outside was crisp.".

>>11542851
>>11542850

Not Malanga for sure. I don't think it was burdock, but I'm reconfirming now to be sure.

>> No.11542883

>>11542863
The taste and outside description when cooked is kinda useless if it was sauteed in butter. If it was a root or shroom, it most likely didn't have much taste in the first place and most likely mostly tasted like the butter. And if was cut up good luck finding any root that doesn't fit the description.

>> No.11542894

>>11542760
>comprised of

>> No.11542974

>>11542883

Apparently, the 'smooth' part was before it was cut up or peeled. Also, it was allegedly tapered on both ends before it was cut up.

>>11542894

Is that grammatically incorrect?

>> No.11543002

>>11542974
How smooth is smooth? Mushroom smooth would be infinitely more smooth than any tuber. Hell, if it was a tuber, it could really be anything, might not even have been nepalese or tibetan but some stuff cultivated there like yacon or a uncommon variety of some root. Could even have been dug up from the backyard 10 minutes prior to cooking under what was the cook's shitting spot for 2 years.

>> No.11543013

>>11543002

Apparently, quite smooth. And, it was pretty long, too, and thin.

I know it's a crapshoot and it's not even guaranteed that it originated from Nepal or Tibet, but that was the area that she was in at the time and it's likely that the woman she was staying with (Now dead, I went that route, too) got it locally.

>> No.11543204

>>11542974
yeah you shouldn't say "is comprised of"

comprises = is composed of / consists of

So the whole comprises the parts, and the parts compose the whole. Using "is comprised of" is incorrect, at least from a prescriptive perspective. Certainly a lot of people do use the phrase, but it's incorrect and you should avoid it.

In your post you could have used "consists of" or more colloquially "is made from"