herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves
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dasheen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant |
| Type of | arum, aroid |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root |
| Type of | root vegetable |
Examples of dasheen
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Dasheen is similar to potato he tells us, and St. Lucians eat it mashed or fried.
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Dasheen flour was said to make excellent pancakes when mixed with wheat flour.
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Both are known by many names including callaloo, coco, tannia, bhaaji, or dasheen bush.
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Fellsmere, Florida, near the east coast, was a farming area deemed perfect for growing dasheen.
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Pumpkin or yam can replace the sweet potato, dasheen can be used instead of yucca, if you can find it.
From the boston.com
After all these years, my favourite food is my mother's butter bean stew with whole potatoes, yam and dasheen.
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Creole food is prevalent on restaurant menus, including callaloosoup, made from tender leaves found at the center of the dasheen plant.
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Callaloo in Trinidad and other eastern Caribbean countries is generally made with okra and dasheen or water spinach Ipomoea aquatica.
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In the 1920s, dasheen, as it was known, was highly touted by the Secretary of the Florida Department of Agriculture as a valuable crop for growth in muck fields.
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- Taro: edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
- Taro: herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves
- Taro is a common name for the corms and tubers of several genera of the family Araceae The name includes species of Colocasia spp (dasheen, taro, cocoyam, eddoe) Alocasia spp (giant taro), Amorphophallus campanulatus (Roxb) (elephant yam) and Crytosperma chamissons (Shott) and the tropical ...
- A variety of taro that is grown in the southern states. It is a high-starch tuber. Although acrid in the raw state, it has a nut-like flavor when cooked. Taro can be boiled, fried, baked, and used in soup.
- Also known a coco, taro and tannia, dasheen is a starchy tuber that is usually served boiled or cut up and used as a thickener in hearty soups. While considered by some to have a texture and flavor superior to that of a Jerusalem artichoke or potato. ...
- A big soft yam-like root, often slightly grayish when
