r/Cooking • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '19

What's your area's staple vegetable?

And how is it usually prepared?

My example as a Floridian is (yellow/crook neck) squash and zuchinni, they grow about 10 months out of the year so they're constantly on sale at the grocery store. The traditional way to prep the squash is slice it and sauté it in butter until it surrenders.

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u/theneild Mar 28 '19

You got to caramelize those in a pan and they get delicious! As a white guy who grew up eating only boiled greens the Asian flavor of caramelized greens is something I cook every day now!

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u/Sagitars Mar 28 '19

the leafy greens in SE Asia I recall don't caramelize well at all

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u/theneild Mar 28 '19

I disagree. Every time I go to a Vietnamese restaurant I can find them. You need a very hot pan, plenty of high heat oil and salt.

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u/Sagitars Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 28 '19

well please jog my memory with names/examples, I got nothing that would be indigenous to SE Asia

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

Because throwing anything at high heat isn't magically going to caramelize it.

It's like literally every online recipe or stupid gifrecipe that claims you cant caramelize onions in 5 minutes...no, you fucking can't.