An encounter with Chow-chow
Plate - 1 Hi everyone, it has been months since I have posted anything, let me break this extended fasting with a “Chow-Chow Kootu”. Why this peculiar dish? Let me take you through my encounter with chow-chow. Sparked a moment, when I saw this vegetable’s spelling in a super market and I started to wonder on the genesis of this name: Chow-chow. Not that I have never knew this vegetable but never have I tried to spell it all through my age. This particular vegetable commonly called as chow-chow in Tamil Nadu has been widely used to make sambars and kootu and my mom is an expert in it. But doesn’t this spelling resembles a Chinese name? so the next question within me was, “have I been eating a Chinese sambar all these days?”. So I decided to ask this guy Gokul (that’s how my father calls “Google”) and it said the actual name of this vegetable is Chayote and it is native to Mexico and Guatemala. Appa
