Tomorrow is Mid-autumn festival day in Singapore. We appreciated mooncakes and enjoyed seasonal vegetables, which looks very strange to me!
Delicious moon cakes from Mariott in Singapore. Absolutely elegant and delicious.
And…totally new vegetables for me that is in season in autumn.
????Looks like bat and the shell is so hard! This is named water caltrop and my customers kindly let me know to eat this seasonal vegetable with moon cakes in this season.
The appearance of hanging on the sieve is utterly bat!! lol
I boiled them for 30 minutes with salt, that followed with my kind customer’s advise.
It was a boiling water with water caltrops, that looks like a hell…scary
However, after the cook, the inside of the hard shell is beautiful white flesh that tastes like chestnut!
I seasoned it with slightly sweetened Japanese Dashi and served with squid pan cake.
The boys scared the black thorns and appearance first, but they were very brave for that!
Always it’s fun to try new cultures!
Hope you will have a great celebration with your loves tomorrow.
Naoko xx
