Series on Eating Weeds in the Hindu Newspaper

Here’s a series done in 2017 on eating the weeds, published in The Hindu newspaper. It’s incomplete–purslane should be in this list, but the darned weed hasn’t yet appeared in my yard, so I’m yet to cook with it. I have cooked with brahmi or vallaraikeerai, pennywort — but that’s technically not a weed, is it?

While I’m sorting.. er, weeding out my list, here’s what is represented in this little series: 

• Represented here for the moment are: 
• Indravalli
• Kang Kong/ Vallai keerai
• Roselle leaves, or gongura/puliccha keerai
• Roselle calyces
• Ceylon pasalai keerai or Malabar spinach, and of course
• The inimitably blue butterfly pea flower, or shanku pushpam — which certainly grows like a weed ’round these here parts. 

Have others you want to know about? Want more on weeds? Email me: deepa [at] paticheri [dot] com