How do you say chayote in English?
Can you eat chayote raw?
Chayote is technically a fruit, but it’s prepared and eaten like a vegetable. Some ways to enjoy chayote include: Eating raw chayote like you would eat cucumber or celery. Adding raw chayote cubes to vegetable or fruit salads.
What does chayote mean?
: the pear-shaped fruit of a West Indian annual vine (Sechium edule) of the gourd family that is widely cultivated as a vegetable also : the plant. — called also christophene, mirliton.
What is chayote called in India?
It is an edible plant that belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae along with melons, cucumbers and squash. Chayote is known by different name in Indian regional languages such as Seema vankaya or Bengaluru vankaaya (in Telugu), Chocho or Chow Chow or Bengaluru katharikkai (in Tamil) etc.