malanga lila

Noun

malanga lila (uncountable)

1. A purple variety of malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, a starchy tropical root vegetable related to taro.
   • Choose 1 lb (500 g) yautía or malanga from these varieties:
     • 1 lb (500 g) white yautía or malanga blanca (white flesh with potato-like texture; mild to earthy flavor; the most common variety in North America)
     • 1 lb (500 g) purple yautía or malanga lila (light purple flesh with dense, potato-like...2010, “Yautía”, in David Joachim, The Food Substitutions Bible: More Than 6,500 Substitutions for Ingredients, Equipment & Techniques, 2nd edition, Toronto, ON: Robert Rose Inc., →ISBN, page 627
   • At the Soon Lee Supermarket in the super-strip mall on the northeast corner, for example, there was a bustling Chinese grocery, stocked with all manner of exotica: bitter melons, which look like cucumbers cross-bred with porcupines; malanga lila, like turnips with hair; dried seaweed; exotic dried...2013, Edward Keenan, Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto, Toronto, ON: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 89