Starchy tropical tubers Puerto Rican cuisine



yuca, puerto rican name cassava.


starchy tubers, starchy fruit, chayote, , squash known viandas or verduras. treated same, whether boiled or made chips , served mojo or mashed butter , milk. mofongo popular viandas plantain. can roasted, made soups (especially cream soups), breads, pastelillos dough, or used in desserts.



apio – root vegetable (from legume apios tuberosa / apios americana), eaten potatoes. not confused celeriac.
batata/tropical sweet potato – purple flesh white inside.
lerén/arrowroot
malanga/taro
Ñame/yam
papa/potato – few varieties of potato existed on island.
yautía/eddoe – few varieties of root existed on island.
yuca/cassava – similar potato starchier.






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