Comments on: Niger’s green leaves - the vegetables of the season http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/ aka Ishtar News Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:36:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Joy (Ahoy!) http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2362 Joy (Ahoy!) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:40:43 +0000 http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2362 Wow, a lot of posts here since I last checked! I tried to look for an answer to your moringa pod question, but I couldn't find and answer online. Guess I'll have to ask my mom and I'll tell you later. Or you could try when you're back. In this link, the guy refers to a book on how to cook the pods, which are described to taste like artichokes: http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/malunggay-seed-pods-horseradish-tree-pods Here, the book author recommended running your teeth down the length of the pod to eat it, but my mom usually takes a teaspoon and runs it down to peel the flesh away from the pod (the seeds are edible too) before cooking. They still remain fibrous after then – much like eating artichokes too. I haven't found it in Sweden. Yet. :-) Wow, a lot of posts here since I last checked!

I tried to look for an answer to your moringa pod question, but I couldn’t find and answer online. Guess I’ll have to ask my mom and I’ll tell you later. Or you could try when you’re back.

In this link, the guy refers to a book on how to cook the pods, which are described to taste like artichokes:

http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/malunggay-seed-pods-horseradish-tree-pods

Here, the book author recommended running your teeth down the length of the pod to eat it, but my mom usually takes a teaspoon and runs it down to peel the flesh away from the pod (the seeds are edible too) before cooking. They still remain fibrous after then – much like eating artichokes too.

I haven’t found it in Sweden. Yet. :-)

]]> By: India J http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2303 India J Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:26:16 +0000 http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2303 This looks absolutely yummy..! Thanks for sharing..:) This looks absolutely yummy..! Thanks for sharing..:)

]]> By: Esther Garvi http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2279 Esther Garvi Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:26:53 +0000 http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2279 @O: Thanks O! Must invite you over for a famine food dinner then! @Joy: You are right, it is Moringa Oleifera in my hand. We have a couple of plants growing in the back of the garden and they're generously producing greens. I did not know that people ate the pods - that's great to know! Do you pick them while they are still green then, or do you wait until they are ripe? Must check out some Filipino recipes soon! Moringa & unripe papaya? Sounds exiting! @O: Thanks O! Must invite you over for a famine food dinner then!

@Joy: You are right, it is Moringa Oleifera in my hand. We have a couple of plants growing in the back of the garden and they’re generously producing greens. I did not know that people ate the pods - that’s great to know! Do you pick them while they are still green then, or do you wait until they are ripe? Must check out some Filipino recipes soon! Moringa & unripe papaya? Sounds exiting!

]]> By: Joy (Ahoy!) http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2236 Joy (Ahoy!) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:01:47 +0000 http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2236 I think I recognize the first plant you were holding. Unfortunately, I only know its name in Filipino: "malunggay" (but a quick Googling says that it's called "Moringa oleifera"). We usually cook the leaves in a stew with some chicken, chicken broth, and unripe papaya. The pods (if I indeed got the plant right and there are pods growing on your trees), can be split, it's flesh and seeds taken out, and made into soup with some ground meat. The pods, however, are really fibrous. You have to keep on picking your teeth as you eat, which is why the Filipinos sometimes call it "toothpick soup" or "stick soup". If you want to try it, you can Google the following: Tinola (the chicken stew) Malunggay with meat soup OR Malunggay soup :-) I think I recognize the first plant you were holding. Unfortunately, I only know its name in Filipino: “malunggay” (but a quick Googling says that it’s called “Moringa oleifera”). We usually cook the leaves in a stew with some chicken, chicken broth, and unripe papaya. The pods (if I indeed got the plant right and there are pods growing on your trees), can be split, it’s flesh and seeds taken out, and made into soup with some ground meat. The pods, however, are really fibrous. You have to keep on picking your teeth as you eat, which is why the Filipinos sometimes call it “toothpick soup” or “stick soup”. If you want to try it, you can Google the following:

Tinola (the chicken stew)
Malunggay with meat soup OR
Malunggay soup

:-)

]]> By: O. http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2230 O. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:20:21 +0000 http://esthergarvi.com/2008/08/14/nigers-green-leaves-the-vegetables-of-the-season/#comment-2230 wow, girl, your food ALWAYS looks so yummy!!! wow, girl, your food ALWAYS looks so yummy!!!

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