Yucca and Chayote……

So, Tuesday decided we should try some new foods…so this weekend, when we were at the grocery food store, we picked out yucca and chayote.  Yucca is a tropical root vegetable and chayote is a type of squash.  Both sounded interesting.

I looked up some recipes and decided to make yucca fries.  You had to cut them up and then boil them with garlic and bay leaves for 30 minutes.  After the yucca was boiled, you fried it….just like french fries.  The chayote, I decided to just saute in some olive oil.

Well, did we enjoy it…..they were alright.  The yucca fries did taste pretty much like normal fries…..if we put ketchup on them….you probably couldn’t tell the difference.  The chayote was a bit bland.  I think if I had used a different recipe, it would have tasted better.  I think the worst part was that my house still smells like frying yucca!  I can’t get rid of the smell…….(I know my plate below looks a bit sparse..but I still have a bit of morning sickness and the thought of the yucca and chayote didn’t really appeal to me too much!!)