Sweet lime. The nearest thing India has to an orange. It has a green skin and sweet, juicy, bright orange flesh.
Sweet lime. The nearest thing India has to an orange. It has a green skin and sweet, juicy, bright orange flesh.
Asparagus pea. Winged bean. A thin, green, rectangular pod, the fruit of a leguminous plant with a flower similar to a sweet pea, eaten young in the same way as mange-tout. Nothing whatever to do with asparagus bean.
Green, raw, uncooked, unripe. As in kancha aam - green mango or kancha kala - green banana (plantain).
Plantain. An unripe, green banana. A starchy type of banana with firm flesh. If it is the variety used for desserts it is cooked when it is green, but it is left to ripen if it is the less sweet type. It is a staple food in many tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world.
