Ingredients 101

A collection of links to posts I’ve made on various ingredients that will help you get to know both the familiar and the unusual that we find here in the Buenos Aires markets.

Herbs

Ciboulettes/Cebollínes – chives, garlic chives, flowering chives

Huacatay – Amazon Black Mint

Quirquiña – Bolivian coriander

 

Condiments

Chinese Black Vinegar

Mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine)

Salsa Golf

 

Chilies

Ajies peruanos – Peruvian chilies (limos, rocotos, amarillos, mirasol, panca)

 

Roots/Tubers

Mandioca – Cassava, Manioc, Yuca

Nabo Japones – Daikon

Oca – New Zealand Yam

Papalisa/Olluquito – small Andean tuber

Papañame/Malanga/Ocuma – taro root

 

Vegetables & Fruits

Acelga – Swiss chard

Arvejas y Habas – peas, snowpeas, and broad beans

Berenjena – eggplant

Brócoli – broccoli

Cascara de Limón Acaramelizada – Candied lemon peel

Chamoe (melón coreano) – Korean melon

Habas – broad beans

Lao huang gua (pepino coreano) – Old Yellow Melon/Korean Cucumber

Melón amargo, o balsamina – bitter melon

Papas del aire – chayote, christophene, custard marrow

Zapallitos redondos – globe zucchini, eight-ball zucchini

 

Meat

Cortes – Cuts of beef

Pescados del mar 1 – ocean fish 1

Pescados del mar 2 – ocean fish 2

Pescados del río – river/freshwater fish

Mollejitas de pollo – chicken giblets

 

Other Stuff

 

Blue Cheese – #1, #2, #3