We went for Indian take-out tonight, and we can't figure out what vegetable is in this dish (sambahr)?!
I can't tell too much about the taste of it because it tastes like the sambahr, but the texture is sort of like a potato but much firmer and with more moisture. maybe like a cross between a potato and some kind of sqaush. I don't know what the outside would have looked like because they peeled it. It's very good.
Any idea what it is?
Answers: It is whitish in color, but it is not a potato. It seems like it is probably a root of some kind, but I don't think it's anything I've ever had before or is available at the regular grocer.
I can't tell too much about the taste of it because it tastes like the sambahr, but the texture is sort of like a potato but much firmer and with more moisture. maybe like a cross between a potato and some kind of sqaush. I don't know what the outside would have looked like because they peeled it. It's very good.
Any idea what it is?
Thanks, at least you dined an Indian dish which is also known as South Indian dish. Dear friend whatever you have taken might be good for taste but when you indulged yours apetite at so deep level to know the vegetable makes me feel uneasy. You did or committed one mistake by not asking them at the restaurant who prepared the Sambhar. The reason of telling you this is that in our country in India, South Indian Sambhar being prepared by using different kind of vegetables to make it delicious for the sense as well as for taste of the buds so do not be puzzled yourself and whenever you go out next time kindly ask about that vegetable which is making your so much curious about its identity.
It sounds like a water chestnut.
I've just googled sambhar and it comes up as a spicy lentil dahl with fried onions and mustard seeds. So that's not the vegetable you describe.
It's arvi or taro root, very starchy and very common in South Indian sambhars.