Caribbean Root Vegetables

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It's time to head into the kitchen, but before beginning to cook, we need a crash course in the tubers that abound in the cooking of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. There's true yam that comes in multiple varieties. And then the fun starts. One man's yucca is another's cassava. And another's yautia might also be called tannia, cocoyam, taro, dasheen, or malanga! Chef Alfredo Ayala walks us through the many varieties of tubers and tells us how each is used.

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God is soooo good. Everything we need He has provided for us😀👏🏿🙏🏿❤

[@knatural7754]

eat all these things thanks to my mother and her family 🇵🇷

[@lourdese.m.d.9799]

Taro is malanga.
Eddo is yautía.
Yams is ñame.
Sweet potato is batata.
Yellow sweet potatoe is batata mameya

[@HijaDeCristo18]

Yams is not ñame 🍠. Yams is batata mameya 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@Oysters176]

@@HijaDeCristo18 Yams are Dioscorea, Sweet Potatoes are Morning Glory. Potatoes are Nightshade. Oca is Woodsorrel. Mashua is Nasturtium.

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Thank you for the video!

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Love Sancocho!!

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Thank you for video!!

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Amazing

[@Valmordi]

I’m in Puerto Rico rn and went to the supermarket to buy a bunch of root veggies to taste test

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yummmmmmmm

[@1bongocero]

What is arrowroot in spanish and apio in english called? I wanted to know because chef Ayala mentions these two of the five root vegetables needed to make the "masa" or batter for the Puerto Rican pasteles. The rest of the vegetables I know green bananas, calabasa or Pumpkin and yuca. Please help, I'm making pasteles for Christmas and wanted to use his combination of the vegetables he had mentioned, thank you kindly...regards...Jorge Rosado.

[@santiago3391]

Very informative video about the root vegetables of my Caribbean people. Also, is that Viola Davis as the narrator of the video?

[@lizabetx483]

Jessica B. Harris author of High on the Hog is the narrator.

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maraming salamat po!!! MABUHAY!!!

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Aye ricooooo!!!!

[@pgprentice]

What is the potato looking root that is like water chestnut? I could not get the name from the video. At 1:38 in the vid.

[@angelseightsix]

Laranas

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Which are sweet?

[@jaym9846]

Which ones can be eaten without cooking?

[@Valmordi]

None just like potatoes

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yami de pappa does anyone know how to spell it, thank you

[@ldiazmdiaz]

ñame

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I LOVE ALL OF THEIS= THIS IS MY BEST FOOD WITH OLIVE OIL AND TOMATO AND ONION,S=0:6-7-8-9

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Llame de papa

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Llame de papa

[@Valmordi]

Ñame