To eat cardoon it needs to be fried steamed or sauteed.

Uncommon vegetables names. Ancient Greece and Rome Ajax Cornelius. One of the least weird looking specimens from our exotic fruit and vegetables collection Goji berry is nonetheless extremely rare. While it may be rough and bumpy on the outside the actual fruit flesh is smooth and creamy like custard.

Try replacing those carrots potatoes lettuce or celery with one of these exotic vegetables that is if you can find them. Dulse is a red- and brown-hued sea vegetable which can be purchased as whole leaves or in powdered form. In health circles it is commonly referred to as a super fruit due to its myriad health benefits.

Cassava and Yuca are the two most common names given for this root vegetable. 12 out of the ordinary or uncommon vegetables to try Jerusalem Artichokes. However while cucamelons are related to the more common garden plants watermelons melons and cucumbers they are members of a different genus Melothria.

Heres your guide to 10 weird fruits and vegetables from around the world. The cucamelon or Melothria scabra is native to Mexico and Central America where its called sandita which means little watermelon in Spanish. Cardoon is a member of the thistle family and a close relative to the artichoke.

You may not be as familiar with some of the more unique uncommon vegetable types found below. If something that looks like a meteorite explosion a Fibonacci sequence or called Ugli fruit and Gac is your cup of tea you weird fruit then scroll along and check the most unusual vegetables. While they are weird-looking to you they may be common to others.

There are two main varieties one being sweet in flavour and the other bitter with both requiring slightly different cooking techniques. Uncommon baby names. You are probably familiar with the common vegetables like lettuce potatoes beans and onions.