Light green squash-like ingredient in Indonesian cuisine
We've traveled to Indonesia years ago and there was this ingredient I had never tasted before which has had me looking for years. I had it in gado-gado many times there, including in an Indonesian restaurant in North America which had me very nostalgic!
I don't know what the original vegetable looks like but cooked, it was a pale green. I saw it served in many different shapes crescent-like, julienne, or diced, so I figure it may be some kind of squash but it didn't really taste like any squash that I know of.
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i've had gado-gado, and may other traditional indonesian salad dishes, i'm not 100% sure but could it be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote
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In Indonesia, chayotes or labu siam are widely planted for their shoots and fruit. (Labu siam, literally "Siamese gourd", is used in both Indonesia and Malaysia.) It is generally used in Sundanese food as lalap and one of ingredients for Sundanese cuisine called sayur asem.More answers regarding light green squash-like ingredient in Indonesian cuisine
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I am not sure if it is Chayote because they are famous for not having any taste , in Australia apparently they use Chayote (called choko) in McDonalds Apple Pies as the "apple pieces".
If it has flavour, and if it is not coming from the sauce/seasoning of what it is with, then maybe it some sort of egg plant? They come in all different shapes and sizes and this does have a nice flavour and some types can be eaten raw in salad etc I believe like papaya?
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