Ode to taro root
Bulbs of tuber fried
Popping breaded wedding leaves
Bubble tea slakes me
Oh, arbi. How can one root be so tasty, the breaded leaves so delish? Even your powder, extracted and extravagantly falsified, is my favorite flavor of bubble tea. Are you just aloo’s hotter sister?
on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008, 1:15 pm in Food › 
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Paish-e-khidmat hai
Bubble tea
retched
looks the same.
aadaab
have you tried this giant ugly uncle to the arbi. It’s called elephant’s tumor or something like that. It causes an allergic reaction quite frequently - quite like a veggie fugu.
Arbi is the best! Sukki arbi in particular :-D. And then there is this really pendu recipe of “Arbi-bataun (taro and eggplants, made almost like the good old aloo-baingan), totally yummy!
Besides, who can resist the charm of patrode/patra/patauli :).
Almost 20 years ago, in Malaysia, I encountered a most delicious dish: the Yam Basket. It’s a bowl constructed of mashed tarot, fried crispy on the outside but soft on the inside, then filled with a stir-fry. Though ubiquitous at the Malaysian vegetarian Chinese restaurants called Sayur-Sayuran, I’ve never encountered it outside that region. Oh Yam Basket, how I miss ye!
Nina, i have had something similar in a Chinese restaurant (Chung-Wah)in Bangalore-it was called the Taro nest :). Taro bowl (deep fried) and stir-fry served in that bowl, really delish!
Taro nest: The picture and the recipe :)
He he, food does get me started :-D.
Musical, what you pictured, Taro Nest, is cursorily similar and no doubt tasty, but Yam Basket is much thicker, only crispy on the outside but soft inside with delicious mashed tarot goodness. Indeed I have ordered many a crispy “nest” in my pursuit of Yam Basket, only to have my hopes disappointed and dreams dashed against a rocky shore of (not untasty) crunchiness.
As fate would have it, I expect to visit Singapore this Fall, and if I can’t find a Yam Basket there I may cross the border to be reunited with the long-lost love of my youth. Wish me well!
I agree Nina, yams are a league of their own :). Batter-coated and deep fried yam (Jimikand/suran) is out of this world! Wish you much luck in your gastronomic pursuits :-D.
I didnot know that patra came from arbi..
I think I tasted arbi vegetable before but I didnot like it..
but I love patra..the leaf of arbi..
thanks musical I will look into this recipe..
Can folks on this site recommend sites for getting Indian seeds/cuttings for a vegetable garden?
Gardening? Are you kidding?
We’re a bunch of Gen X/Y ers living out of apartments in all the narrow
parts of the coast where Gore won.
I for one water my sacred tulsi plant every morning ;)
just remembered what it is. It’s the elephant yam or the giant elephant amorpophallus. It’s supposed to cure bleeding piles according ot sulekha, that trusted old font of desi knowledge.