Innala (Wild Baby Potato)

ORIGINS

Africa

TASTE

Milky taste

AYURVEDA & MEDICINAL USES

Use in ayurvedic medicane as a treatment for haemorhoids.

The plant is also used to treat blood in the urine as well as eye disorders.

Used to treat stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, mouth and throat infections and areused as purgative, carminatives and as antihelmintics.

Used for the treatment of abdominal pain, burns, wounds, sores, insect bites and allergies.

NOTABLE FACTS

The plant used to be widely cultivated as a root crop in the savanah belt of Africa, though it has largely fallen out of favour there. It is still sometimes cultivated in Africa, but is much more commonly grown in southeast Asia.

It is believed to have originated in Central or East Africa, but was early spread throughout tropical Africa and into South-East Asia, including India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia,where it is cultivated on a small scale.

TRY-ME RECIPES

Cut the long beans ,clean the innalla in to small dices. take a clay pot put all ingredients in to the pot and
mixed by hand. add coconut milk and bring it to boil,cook for 6 to 10 minutes,until it get cooked. stir time to time,cook in slow fire.add salt and finish the dish and diced tomato must added at last minute.

Boiled the sliced innala separately. keep a side. Heat the oil, add onion and saute, fallow with tomato and stir. saute for few minutes,add cream parmasan cheese and finish with salt and pepper. Finally add the coriander leaves on top.