Produce glossary
I thought it might be of interest to some readers to see the main items that will be covered in the Produce Glossary of Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare’s Kitchen. As you may already know this cookbook is the first of what will be several volumes, and in each one a new set of produce will be featured. You may also know that in the produce glossary I am focusing on featuring produce which is available in markets and quality retailers, and/or grows easily at home, but with which many people are not so familiar. One aim of Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare’s Kitchen is to provide information that assists people to experiment or make greater use of the fantastic array of produce we have available in tropical Australia.
Because there is a great range of information already available on fish and seafood, they are not featured in the Produce Glossary. (If you are looking for information, go to http://www.fish.gov.au/fishnames/search.php). The cookbook dedicates a whole chapter to recipes for the superb fish and seafood of Northern Australia, so there is lots of information on recipe ideas and ways of cooking fish and seafood in the recipe section.
As we are right in the midst of editing at present this list may vary slightly from the final version, but it is likely to be pretty much as below:
Abiu (Pouteria caimito)
Allspice (Pimenta dioica)
Aibika or New Guinea Spinach (Hibiscus manihot)
Amaranth (Amaranthus spp.)
Annatto (Bixa orellana)
Bamboo shoots (Bambusa spp., Dendrocalamus spp.)
Bitter melon (Momordica charantia)
Black sapote (Diospyros digyna)
Brazilian Spinach or Sambu Lettuce (Alternanthera sissoo)
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
Canistel (Pouteria campechiana)
Carambola (Averrhoa carambola)
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum)
Cassava (Manihot esculenta)
Ceylon spinach (Basella alba)
Chinese Keys (Boesenbergia rotunda)
Choko (Sechium edule)
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylandicum)
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao)
Coconut (Cocos nucifera)
Coffee (Coffea Arabica)
Cordyline or Ti leaves (Cordyline fruticosa, C. terminalis)
Coriander, long leaf (Eryngium foetidum)
Curry leaf (Murraya koenigii)
Custard Apple (Annona atemoya)
Davidson plum (Davidsonia pruriens)
Drumstick tree (Moringa oleifera)
Durian (Durio zibethinus)
Galangal (Alpinia galanga)
Ginger (Zingiber officinale, Zingiberaceae)
Granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis)
Guanabana (Annona muricata)
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora)
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
Jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus)
Kankong or Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
Lime, Finger (Citrus australasica)
Lime, Kaffir (Citrus hystrix)
Lime, Tahitian (Citrus Latifolia)
Lime, West Indian (Citrus Aurantifolia)
Longan (Dimocarpus longan)
Lychee (Litchi chinensis)
Lemon Myrtle (Backhousia citriodora)
Mamey sapote (Pouteria sapota)
Macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia)
Mushroom plant (Rungia klossii)
Mango (Mangifera indica)
Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana)
Mint, vietnamese (Persicaria odorata)
Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans)
Oregano, cuban (Plectranthus amboinicus)
Pandan (Pandanus amaryllifolius)
Papaya (Carica papaya)
Pepper (Piper nigrum)
Plantain (Musa spp.)
Pitaya (Hylocereus spp.)
Pummelo (Citrus grandis)
Radish, Daikon (Raphanus sativus)
Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum)
Rollinia (Rollinia deliciosa)
Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota)
Snake Beans (Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis)
Star Anise (Illicium verum)
Star Apple (Chrysophyllum caimito)
Sweet leaf (Sauropus androgynus)
Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas)
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica)
Taro root & leaves (Colocasia esculenta)
Turmeric (Curcuma longa)
Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia)
Wattle seed (Acacia spp.)
Wild Pepper leaves (Piper sarmentosum)
Wing bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
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Abiu, Acacia spp., Aibika or New Guinea Spinach, Allspice, Alpinia galanga, Alternanthera sissoo, Amaranth, Amaranthus spp., Annatto, Annona atemoya, Annona muricata, Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Averrhoa carambola, Backhousia citriodora, Bamboo shoots, Bambusa spp., Basella alba, Bitter melon, Bixa orellana, black sapote, Boesenbergia rotunda, Brazilian Spinach or Sambu Lettuce, breadfruit, C. terminalis, Canistel, Carambola, Cardamom, Carica papaya, Cassava, Ceylon spinach, Chinese Keys, Choko, Chrysophyllum caimito, Cinnamomum zeylandicum, Cinnamon, Citrus Aurantifolia, Citrus grandis, Citrus hystrix, Citrus Latifolia, Cocoa, Coconut, Cocos nucifera, Coffea Arabica, Coffee, Colocasia esculenta, Cordyline fruticosa, Cordyline or Ti leaves, Coriander, cuban, Curcuma longa, Curry leaf, Custard Apple, Daikon, Davidson plum, Davidsonia pruriens, Dendrocalamus spp., Dimocarpus longan, Diospyros digyna, Drumstick tree, durian, Durio zibethinus, Elettaria cardamomum, Eryngium foetidum, galangal, Garcinia mangostana, Ginger, Granadilla, Guanabana, Hibiscus manihot, Hylocereus spp., Illicium verum, Ipomoea aquatica, Ipomoea batatas, Jaboticaba, Jackfruit, Jicama, Kaffir, Kankong or Water Spinach, Lemon Myrtle, lime, Litchi chinensis, long leaf, Longan, lychee, Macadamia, Macadamia integrifolia, Mamey sapote, Mangifera indica, mango, Mangosteen, Manihot esculenta, Manilkara zapota, Mint, Momordica charantia, Moringa oleifera, Murraya koenigii, Musa spp., Mushroom plant, Myrciaria cauliflora, Myristica fragrans, Nephelium lappaceum, Nutmeg, Oregano, Pachyrhizus erosus, Pandan, Pandanus amaryllifolius, papaya, Passiflora quadrangularis, Pepper, Persicaria odorata, Pimenta dioica, Piper nigrum, Piper sarmentosum, Pitaya, Plantain, Plectranthus amboinicus, Pouteria caimito, Pouteria campechiana, Pouteria sapota, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, Pummelo, Radish, Rambutan, Raphanus sativus, Rollinia, Rollinia deliciosa, Rungia klossii, Sapodilla, Sauropus androgynus, Sechium edule, Snake Beans, Star Anise, Star Apple, Sweet leaf, Sweet potatoes, Tahitian, tamarind, Tamarindus indica, Taro root & leaves, Theobroma cacao, Turmeric, Vanilla, Vanilla planifolia, vietnamese, Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis, Wattle seed, West Indian, Wild Pepper leaves, Wing bean, Zingiber officinale, Zingiberaceae
Rusty’s doesn’t seem to have as many “exotic” fruits as I’d expect, For instance I’ve been looking for some breadfruit and pomello but I can’t find any. Is the book going to include information on how to grow any of the ingredients?
The best stall for pomelo is the Vietnamese stall at the rear on the Grafton street side – at the back of the stall he does sugarcane juice and green drinking coconuts, and along the central table is where the pomelo’s are. If there are none one week they’ll generally be there again the next week (it’s always worth asking them when they’ll have them in next). He also stocks breadfruit sometimes, as do the older Malay couple who have a Saturday stall that backs onto Billy’s coffee. Not the time for breadfruit at present, back again in the wet season.
We dearly need a food gardening book for the tropics – Leonie Norrington’s Tropical Food Gardens is a great start, but more is needed. Another scheme for the future in the back of my head somewhere is to get a range of contributors together from across tropical australia to give guidance on growing various foods in our many and varying microclimates.
I didn’t have enough room in this cookbook to cover cooking related information on all the produce I intend to cover – it will take at least 4 volumes to get some decent coverage of what grows in our part of the world. So, I intend this to be the first of four volumes. Maybe some of our fabulously experienced gardeners and horticulturalists can be encouraged to write the food gardening book that we all need…