{"id":42973,"date":"2017-02-05T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/acocha-courgettes-cute-little-cousin\/"},"modified":"2017-02-05T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T06:15:36","slug":"acocha-courgettes-cute-little-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/acocha-courgettes-cute-little-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Acocha, courgette\u2019s cute little cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRidiculously easy to grow, these pretty green plants come into their own when fried, saut\u00e9ed or bakedHaving experimented with hundreds of the more weird and wonderful edible crops over the years, I can personally vouch for the fact that the words \u201cedible\u201d and \u201ctasty\u201d definitely do not always go hand-in-hand, and some delicious crops are impossibly difficult to grow or just have terrible yields. However, every so often there comes along a crop that ticks all the boxes and yet somehow still languishes in the \u201cunusual and oddities\u201d section of seed catalogues.Probably the best example of this is the achocha, a vigorous and ridiculously easy-to\u2013grow courgette relative from the high Andes. I first ate it while working in Ecuador. The fruit are crisp and watery when raw, much like a cucumber\/courgette cross, but really come into their own when fried, saut\u00e9ed or baked, shrinking down and intensifying in flavour, until they taste almost identical to roast green peppers. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Ridiculously easy to grow, these pretty green plants come into their own when fried, saut\u00e9ed...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-bb7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":121049,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tim-dowling-which-courgette-is-the-evil-poisoner-yellow-or-green-tim-dowling\/","url_meta":{"origin":42973,"position":0},"title":"Tim Dowling: which courgette is the evil poisoner, yellow or green? | Tim Dowling","date":"July 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \u2018I\u2019ll never eat another courgette in my life,\u2019 the oldest saysThree days after I poisoned myself and my family with homegrown toxic courgettes, I still don\u2019t feel right. 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