The drumstick is the fruit of the tropical tree Moringa oleifera, and is quite popular as a vegetable in Asia and Africa. The fruit is a long, thin pod, resembling a drum stick. Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... Species Moringa arborea Moringa borziana Moringa concanensis Moringa drouhardii Moringa hilldebrandtii Moringa longituba Moringa oleifera Moringa ovalifolia Moringa peregrina Moringa pygmaea Moringa rivae Moringa ruspoliana Moringa stenopetala Moringa is the only genus in the family Moringaceae. ... Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ... World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the Earths surface. ... This article is about the drum stick, a musical tool. ...
In South India, it is used to prepare a variety of sambar and is also fried. It is also preserved by canning and exported worldwide. A map of South India, its rivers, regions and water bodies. ... Sambar may refer to: Sambar, a kind of deer Sambar, a lentil-based dish common in South India This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Frying is the cooking of food with oil as the heat transfer medium. ... Canning is a method of preserving food by first heating it to a temperature that destroys contaminating micro-organisms, and then sealing it in air-tight jars or cans. ...
It is also sometimes called a horseradish tree as the roots can be used as a horseradish substitute, and miracle tree because of its versatility. Binomial name Armoracia rusticana Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana, syn. ...
At a formal meal, the shell of a piece of drumstick is split open with spoon and fork, and the spoon used to scrape out the succulent interior with all its delicious flavour.
During family meals the preferred method is to pick up the section of drumstick with the fingers and, in the manner of eating the fleshy base of an artichoke petal, scrape away the soft centre with the teeth.
Drumstick leaves are used not only for their tangy flavour but also because they have a reputation of neutralising any 'poison', especially when cooking crabs.