5 Ulluco Tubers (Ullucus tuberosus) - $10 - (Olympia, WA)
The listing is for five larger Ulluco tubers. There are a number of colors and shapes of these tubers. I will include a few smaller tubers so that you have a good variety. “In many highlandareas of the Andes, ulluco (Ullucustuberosus) is a staple, and in a few it is the predominant rootcrop. One of the most striking foods in the markets, its tubers are so brightlycolored—yellow, pink, red, purple, even candy striped—and their waxy skins areso shiny that they seem like botanical jewels. Many are shaped like smallpotatoes but others are curiously long and curved like crooked sausages.1 ; Their skin is thin and soft and needsno peeling before eating. The white to lemon-yellow flesh has a smooth, silkytexture with a nutty taste. Some types are gummy when raw, but in cooking, thischaracteristic is reduced or lost. Indeed, a major appeal of ulluco is itscrisp texture, which remains even when cooked.” Ulluco can be grown inNorth America and is cultivated as a small scale commercial crop in the Pacific Northwest. It does best with cool summer temperatures, and like another popularAndean tuber crop Oca, is photoperiodic, so it doesn’t start forming tubers until around the autumn equinox. Ulluco needs a long season, so starting them indoors and protecting the mature plant from freezing late into the late fall will help tubers reach their full potential.
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