No-work malanga roots

Malanga is a tasty little root from the tropics. The plants are a close relative of the ornamental elephant ears grown in landscaping and they look much the same, though a little smaller.

The central roots and the side roots are edible - just toss a good bulb back in the ground when you harvest and you'll have more the next year.

Malanga is a bunching perennial that is easy to grow and divide. They enjoy a lot of water and can even grow right in a ponds without rotting. My best-looking malanga plants are growing in The Greywater Oasis by my back patio. That's where the roots above came from.

A couple of days later I boiled these, then stir-fried them with rice, eggs, fresh greens, kidney beans and some curry.

Excellent!

To grow your own malanga, go hit your local ethnic market and buy some good-looking roots, then plant them. That's how I did mine and I've now had them growing for years.

The ones above were simply stuck in the ground beneath the banana trees as seen here:

Anyone else growing malanga?


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