When Chayote Meets Kernels Recipe

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Garden inspired us.
Meet at a grateful dinner table.

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Have you ever been afraid you won't be able to eat the next day? I think it's a normal feeling. From this feeling of fear, we learn a lot about how to create our own food by growing vegetables.

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From the garden that feels peaceful, there are many days that are helped by a filling dish on the dinner table. Togetherness and the beauty of sharing are encouragement like sunshine that grows the warmth of the soul with love.

This time I'm going to serve up a simple garden-inspired side dish. Sweet corn and chayote. I grew up surrounded by large areas of cornfields. The smell of corn leaves was pungent, lingering like the sweat of parents trying to feed their children. Just like my late parents, they always try to serve it at our dinner table together. Even though it was only stir-fried kernels mixed with some veggies that were available that day, or, my late parents will pick edible vegetables around our home garden.




Kernels With Baby Chayote.

Kernels are easily combined with many vegetables. If we don't have stock baby corn, then we use kernels for a filling side dish. Another thing we love about kernels is their texture, which is a sweet little pop in the mouth.

Baby chayote, or big chayote, we can mix them with kernels. With the richest ingredients, you can add coconut milk like a curry dish. But with one simple one, we can just stir-fry them without coconut milk.

Like what I did this time, I cooked kernels and baby chayote without coconut milk. I chose it for a fresh taste, not as heavy as the taste of the dish if you use creamy coconut milk. If as a complement to eating rice, I prefer the fresh one compared to the side dish which is a creamy one.

For chayote, we can use any type of chayote. My reason for choosing to use baby chayote is because the texture is crunchier and easier to peel. Also, their sap will be less in the baby chayote state. As they get older, chayotes will have several sharp spines on their outer skin. So make sure you pay attention to the chayote that you buy at the market.


Use Your Favorite Seasoning.
An important key in cooking that is the simplest to apply is the use of your favorite seasoning, or what your tongue knows best.

I use chili and onion seasoning for my fav daily stir-fried veggies. Slices of red chili, slices of red onion, and slices of garlic. Then, the other thing, add flattened ginger for extra flavor.




The Ingredients.

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  • 3 pieces of baby chayotes
  • 1/4 cup of kernels
    -enough water
  • 3 cloves of small red onions
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon of pepper



Cooking Instructions

Prepare Baby Chayote
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Baby chayote has a skin that is thinner and easier to peel. So I use a potato peeler to clean their skins. Then, I cut them lengthwise.


Saute Onion First.
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Heat cooking oil. Then, stir-fry slices of garlic and red onion until they smell good.


Add Red Chilli and Ginger.
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After the onion becomes fragrant, add slices of chili and flattened ginger. You can also use red bell pepper to replace red chili.


Add Veggies.
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Add kernels and baby chayote. Keep stirring them, then add a little water so they don't burn, and also to help them cook evenly.


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Cook them for about five minutes with the pan covered. Add salt and pepper before removing. Taste correction.


I serve them sprinkled with chili flakes. Enjoy a dish of stir-fried kernels and baby chayote while it's warm, with warm rice.

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Maybe nothing that looks special. But for the family members who can be satisfied with this dish, everything becomes full of gratitude.

From the garden, we learn to appreciate the edible things that live in us. From the dinner table, we learn to share what we have. From friends' posts, we learn that every family has its own way to survive and take care of each other.

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Greetings full of love, from a messy kitchen, that unites many souls. Full warm greetings from the garden which is occasionally filled with shrubs. We are not perfect, but we perfect each other. <3




Thank you for reading my blog and reblog if you want my blog this time worthy of reading by others.

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Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari


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Who is Anggrek Lestari?

Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.


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Oh what an interesting recipe. Not sure if chayote is known in Suriname. I haven't had it yet, so wondering what it tastes like.

Chayote is bland in taste. But fresh and crunchy. Suitable for soup and curry too 🙂

Suitable for soup and curry too 🙂

Hmmm you're giving me ideas 😂.

Yes but clear soup, topped with fried onion..yummy ❤️

We like cooking this sardines before...but I don't like peeling it..so sticky hehe

Yes when in big size, Will be sticky 😊

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This type of food is very new to us as we don't have such food in our area so it was good to see and the food seems to be delicious and very nutritious.

Yeah those veggies are local veggies in my living area. Thanks for coming

Vegetables are always a good choice to eat and healthy too, looks very delicious @anggreklestari like all your recipes 😊

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  • very delicious recipes. very true like sister @anggreklestari said. if we think that the next day we cannot eat it is a normal thought. 😁

    Thank you for stopping by 😊

    You're welcome

    There is nothing more beautiful and comforting than being able to grow our own food, it is fresher, healthier and more nutritious.
    I love this colorful recipe and the art in the presentation.
    You are fabulous dear friend @anggreklestari I love your recipes, I appreciate you sharing with us
    have a beautiful night

    As family, that's really happy to grow food together 🙂
    Have a great day

    Aaaah, thank you so much for sharing this inspiration around how to cook chayote, dear @anggreklestari ! It is great to have ideas about this vegetable, as it grows VERY well here, and I am growing it every year in abundance, since a neighbour gifted me a couple. I have some sprouting in my cellar right now, which need planted. :-D They matured very quickly this year, as the winter was so mild, and I didn't get a chance to eat many before they put out shoots: I'm sure there'll be many more this year to enjoy though.

    This is definitely not my field of speciality but I must commend that you're good at what you do. Merely seeing the pictures just makes me want to try them out (even if I know very little or nothing about cooking lol)...

    Welldone friend...


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    Your table looks beautiful indeed. I'm glad you keep nice memories of trying times. Life works in dialectic ways, I guess. I always say the foods you always come back to have some taste of nostalgia. Thank you for a simple and delicious dish, @anggreklestari 🖤🌿


    A self-sustaining garden that your family can eat from takes work and care, but it's worth it in the end.

    As a child, I never experienced this fear of not knowing what to eat the next day, although my mother did tell us stories of how she and her siblings had gone to bed more than once without supper, as my grandfather was in dangerous political moves against the government in those days and sometimes had to go into hiding for days, leaving my grandmother in a precarious situation that couldn't be resolved at night due to curfews. Long story short, this feeling of fear did come to me in 2016, when a strong economic crisis finally caught up with almost everyone in the country. In the end, I guess not all of us learned the importance of having vegetables and fruits in the garden; not everyone has a garden, truth be told. But I can speak for myself; I try to grow some herbs and fruits; it's not easy to dedicate time to this when you have to work far from home every day, weekends included, and yet I believe it's an effort we all should make.

    I grew up in poor family. So I have many things to remember about how we survive through simple food.
    No problem. If we felt difficult about life, it will makes us stronger.
    Now in my city facing difficult economic issue. With family garden, it help much to create daily food
    Hope you and your family keep stronger there 🙂❤️

    Interesting recipe as usual @anggreklestari. I'm salivating right now. I also love to use chayote in different types of dishes I also like to invent sauteing them with can goods as well.

    making them for soup is perfect for a sunny day too. :)