Product to watch Karkalla [Zeebananen]

Product to watch Karkalla [Zeebananen]

This is the first post, so I made it an easy one :-)

I would like to share a new food produce called Sea Bananas/Karkalla [Zeebanaantjes] that I came across this month.

This is not what I mean :-)

It looks like samphire [Dutch: zeekraal / French: salicorne] but it's branches are much thicker, juicier and I prefer them over samphire.
It's a little plant that thrives in the coastal regions of South-Australia and has been eaten by Aboriginals for decades. The leaves are getting yellow towards the end when getting older and with some imagination you can see the "banana" reference. It is now cultivated in France and a little bit in the Netherlands as well and finding its way to restaurants rapidly. It's a great combination with fish dishes!

So I bought a small promo box and put them in a skillet with some olive oil on medium heat for a few minutes until they started to get a darker shade of green. We ate it with some fish in a salt crust. Delicious! JP

It comes in boxes of 75 grams

The result: Yummy!