Making entry in our list of Bizarre Fruits and vegetables around the World is a unique vibrant purple colored root vegetable! It has an amazingly beautiful color! See it yourself :
Is it a potato? Or a sweet potato? It is better i let you guess! A locally grown staple of Hawaiian cuisine, it is rich in flavor and packed with nutritional benefits. This is the plant, the young shoots and leaves are edible too!
This root vegetable is native to the Americas, between 1492 and 1605 it was brought to Japan and it grew pretty well. It became very popular in a variety of Japanese dishes. Later on it was brought to the Hawaiian Islands and with it's rich volcanic soil, the crop just flourished.
It can be cooked in many style, Fry it for super tasty crispy chips ...
Or just boil it / baked it and add little coconut milk and cinnamon for a perfect mash that goes well with meat as well as fish courses.
Others use it for a delicious mochi...
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