Comments on: Chickpea-plantain stir fry (Chana-kele upkari)

By: Savitha S

Savitha S — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:12:13 +0000

Kook is called as Chinese potato in US. you get them in some indian stores in Frozen section mainly if you have a malayalee store.

Regards
Savitha

By: Jyosna Balgi

Jyosna Balgi — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:19:33 +0000

Shilpa,

Regarding the english name for kook…Have you tried ‘Chinese Potatoes’ that we get in Indian stores….
Probably looks something like this…. http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/3917/kooka27gl.jpg
You can read this forum too :
http://www.anothersubcontinent.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t4710-50.html

Let me know if that helped!

Kind Regards,
Jyosna.

By: Bright_skull

Bright_skull — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:57:37 +0000

Thanks for posting this recipe. Even though you claim this to be a Konkani dish; this is famous all over South Canara.

By: sony

sony — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:07:50 +0000

Hi Shilpa.

It must be yam. What we call Sambrani in Kannada.

Shilpa: Its not Yam Sony. Its raw cooking banana.

By: Ashwini

Ashwini — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:25:26 +0000

Shilpa, you are right. Taro root is colocasia root,known as ‘maddi’ in konkani.
Sorry about the confusion and thanks for the clarification!
Also..thank you for all the delicious ‘amchigele’ recipes! It also helps my mother back in India,whom I don’t have to call at odd hours for recipes

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:11:19 +0000

Ashwini, as far as I know, kook and taro root are different. Taro root is the root of colocasia, also called as Arvi. But kooka is a kind of potato.

By: Ashwini Kamath

Ashwini Kamath — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:51:34 +0000

Kook is called ‘taro root’/Colacasia is English. I live in the US and I found the frozen variety of this vegetable. It read
‘Arvi’,Colocasia on the packet
Colocasia is also used to refer ‘pathrode paan’.

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:54:47 +0000

Thanks Ananth. I am yet to find kook here. By any chance, do you know the English name of kook?

By: Ananth Pai

Ananth Pai — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:16:32 +0000

HI Shilpa,

Instaed of plantian. kook can be used during the season.

Ananth

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:54:14 +0000

Thanks to you all for your kind words. Its all your continuous support to Aayi’s recipes which encourages me to work more. I will try my best to improve this more in coming days.