This thing you call jicama...

[Bettestress]

What's it like? And how do you prepare jicama?

[Thumper1616]

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To me it tasts like a cross between a apple and a pear.....yummy and crunchy. I just peel and dice in chunks.

You can do a search on here, I know there is a recipie for baked jimaca also.

[sadie147]

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I was able to get jicama here briefly, then it disappeared. I almost wish i'd never tasted it because i loved it and now it's gone!

I liked it raw, with a bit of lemon juice sprinkled on it. yum!

[ValidRouge]

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I *LOVE* jicama. I've tried cooking it and wasn't all that impressed. But, RAW, the stuff is one of my favorite "snack" foods. I peel it, and eat it like an apple. Cut it into match stick sized pieces and put it on salad, I cut it into small pieces and take it to the movies as my snack.

[sadie147]

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I've also heard it goes very well as a coleslaw...

can someone mail me a case of them? LOL

[not2late]

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Raw is the best way, in my opinion. Choose a jicama that's heavy for it's size, doesn't have any wrinkles, soft spots or moldy looking parts. Peel the skin---I generally whack the jicama in half and use a vegetable peeler to peel the brown skin off. The inside should be a creamy white color.

It works well as a coleslaw type thing--shred the jicama, toss with lime juice and olive oil, add chili powder. But I also like it sliced and with lemon or lime juice or as a dipper for dips and spreads.

There are recipes for requiring you to cook the jicama, but I never found them to my liking. There is one way to cook jicama that's okay---as a substitute for water chestnuts in stir-fry. In that case, you slice the jicama thinly and into match-stick size and stir fry it along with the other veggies. But don't use too much or the stir fry won't be tasty: just use it to add crunch to the stir fry.

[spirittalker]

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I have discovered that if you fry em up like french fries and let em go long enough add a lil bit of salt and they are pretty yummy.

[Bettestress]

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Thanks everyone, sounds like I need to give it try! Going on the grocery list.

[Hoping]

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AGain, as I say in EVERY jicama post, I feel like cooking it is just....un-natural.
Eat it raw. Cut it into slivers or squares or whatever shape you'd like, put some lime and a little bit of salt and mmMMmmm. Yummy! Or you could eat it without putting anything on it.
I hope you like it as much as I do. It's one of my favorite "on the go" snacks.

[Eno]

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Sadie,

Since jicama is popular in asian dishes, you might want to look for it in an asian market. Or maybe a hispanic market since it's native to Mexico/South America.

[sadie147]

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Sadie,

Since jicama is popular in asian dishes, you might want to look for it in an asian market. Or maybe a hispanic market since it's native to Mexico/South America.

they did sell it here for a while..but it seems to have vanished. never thought to look in asian markets, we have a huge asian population here I will try that. we have an almost non existant hispanic population though, which is why i think they're so hard to find here...i don't think there's a demand for them.

[quotidianlight]

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I like to cut it into sticks and eat with salt and a dash lime juice. It's also good in stir fries, almost reminds me of potato when cooked.

[Mothercooter]

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what rung is ths added in?

[ValidRouge]

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Mindy, you can have it during induction. It's on the "salad veggie" list, so you can have two cups of it a day!

WOOHOO

[rozigrl221]

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It tastes like a cross between a pear & an apple? Sounds kinda yummy. Is it sweet like a fruit? Or does that depend on your taste buds? I have not been able to find it at the grocery or the produce stands here in S.FL