Recipe - Chayote Offers A Change From The Usual Squash

1 lg Summer squash; Chayote

~What's Cookin'? Sunday, September 1, 1996~
Had your fill of the everplentiful zucchini and yellow squashes? Then
try another, perhaps lesserknown variety.
The chayote (pronounced "chiOHtay") differs from its summer siblings
because of its large central seed and a somewhat thick, deeply ridged skin.
It takes longer to cook, too.
A chayote looks kind of like a pattypan squash. It's usually about the
size and shape of a large pear in fact, it's sometimes called a vegetable
pear and it has a pale green skin with white flesh. Other names the
chayote goes by include mirliton and christophene.
One cup of boiled or steamed unseasoned chayote squash contains just 38
calories, 1 gram protein, 1 gram fat, 8 grams carbohydrate, 21 milligrams
calcium, 1 milligram sodium and 1 milligram dietary fiber. The squash is a
great source of potassium (276 milligrams per cup) and has some vitamin C,
too. Chayotes are cholesterolfree. TV FN demonstrations always 1)
peel, and 2) wash well. The squash feels sticky after it is peeled. Feniger
of "Too Hot Tamales" makes "rinsing the skin" a "gotta to it" issue.
(1996)patH reporting AKA's Chayote Fruit = mcRecipe (LINK) Pear
Fruit MasterCook [patH 01Se96]

Recipe By : Charleston.Net 1996: The Post and Courier

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #222

Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:14:57 0700 (PDT)

From: PatH phannema@wizard.ucr.edu

NOTES : Copyright =A9 1996 Charleston.Net=20 See the Page:
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