Kacang Botol
March 1, 2010
This crawling vegetable / herb is commonly known as kacang botol in my country. The binomial name for it would be Psophocarpus tetragonolobus.
One of my favorite dishes includes the Kacang Botol Goreng Belacan. It can be eaten as ulam / salad as well.
Other names for it include winged bean, kacang kelisa, su ling dou (China), goa bean (India), kecipir (Indonesia), sikakumame (Japan), sigarilyas (the Philippines), dara dhambala (Sri Lanka) and thua pu (Thailand).
July 7, 2011 at 14:23
[...] think my stomach just launched a huge protest over my sinfully good lunch: sambal goreng kacang botol (winged beans), pucuk ubi masak lemak (young tapioca leaves simmered in coconut gravy) and mutton [...]