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Glossary entry

Hindi term or phrase:

sakarkhand

English translation:

sweet potato

Mar 14, 2009 10:57
15 yrs ago
Hindi term

sakarkhand

Hindi to English Other Cooking / Culinary
I know that, generally, sakarkand is "sweet potato" but what I'm looking for is the English name of a variety that can be and even should be, eaten raw. When cooked, it's supposedly not so tasty. The tubers are longish, purple, and white inside.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 candytuft (I. umbellata)

Discussion

Lalit Sati Mar 17, 2009:
"Minor Tuber Crops Yam-bean (Pachyrrhizus angulatus Rich; P. erosus L.) Yam bean, ... tuberous roots which are eaten raw in salads and cooked as a vegetable"(books.google.com/books?isbn=8131304396...)
Lalit Sati Mar 17, 2009:
"Rajendra Mishrikand-l has been reported from India to average 40 t/ha (twice the normal yield). Main use. The young tubers are eaten raw in salads"(http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library?e=d-00000-00---off...
Lalit Sati Mar 17, 2009:
Mishrikand (Pachyrrhizus angulatus Rich.) in the sandy loam soil of North Bihar (http://www.bioversityinternational.org/publications/pdf/311....
Ryszard Matuszewski (asker) Mar 17, 2009:
The tubers have purple skin, and they're quite white inside. The people from Gaya in North India call it sakarkhand and actually advise to eat it raw
shobha Mar 16, 2009:
Is it a sweet potato or a yam? There are 2 varities os sweet potatoes: one has a pale yellow skin and flesh and the other is bright burnt orange flesh. It is almost never eaten raw. Certain yams on the other hand can be eaten raw eg Japanease yam.
Ryszard Matuszewski (asker) Mar 14, 2009:
No, its not beta vulgaris which I know very well. The "sakarkhand" is said to be white inside. I found Ipomoema umbellata, but it doesnt seem to be used as food
Lalit Sati Mar 14, 2009:
any possibility of beetroot (Beta vulgaris)? :)
Ryszard Matuszewski (asker) Mar 14, 2009:
It looks just like sweet potato The only problem I have, is that sweet potatoes, yams and cassava shouldn't be eaten raw as that contain some poisonous substances unless they are cooked or at least soaked in water.
I wasn't able to find Ipomoema umbellata on Google and the only Google images of "candytuft" are those of some flowers
Lalit Sati Mar 14, 2009:
"...the purple ube variety of yam (Dioscorea alata, also known in India as ratalu or violet yam)."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yam_(vegetable))
Lalit Sati Mar 14, 2009:
The purple Okinawan sweet potato is sometimes confused with the purple yam called ube. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato)
Lalit Sati Mar 14, 2009:
Is this a variety of "sweet potato"? or Yam

Proposed translations

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candytuft (I. umbellata)

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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-03-14 14:08:39 GMT)
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It is actually (Ipomoea batatas), food plant of the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae, but Sweet potatoes are served as a cooked vegetable, in whole or mashed form, and are used as pie filling.
Peer comment(s):
agree Sajjad Hamadani
7 days
Than you very much!
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you. I found some web sites with recipes using raw sweet potatoes"
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