Somewhere in Canacona, Goa women were gathered in little groups along the roadside with small piles of produce laid out on plastic sheeting or an old plastic tablecloth.
I recognised some of the vegetables like the Indian cucumber or Dosakai,, Coconut and Betel leaves but there were some fruits or were they vegetables I was seeing for the first time.
Can you identify the berries and fruit in the picture. I bought a bunch of the lime green origami looking fruit but I don't know what the name is or what its used for. I first thought it was Star fruit or Carambola but they are like paper. I think I'll see if it makes a good natural dye or maybe a mordant.
I asked in Betalbetim and then again at Varca but the local Goans didn't seem to know and they hadn't seen it before.
Here's a great recipe for a Dosakai Pachadi -Cucumber Chutney Salad.
:) Thanks for the link to the recipe! Totally love the produce pictures - and I'm mighty curious about those so-very-interesting-looking berries that I can't identify either! (Love carambola with chilly-salt!) Are those skeins of fresh banana fibre strips? :)
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Ila, I've seen the Dosakai in the market/store hundreds of times and wondered how to cook it until I came across your recipe which is so simple and satisfying. Yes, that's skeins of fresh banana fibre strips - wonder what people buy it for - to tie flowers? This was just a day or two before Ganesh Chaturti so I wonder if all that is on display has some significance and connection to the festival.
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