VEGETATION AT PUTTUR

There are many fruits & vegetables at my place in Puttur. It is a festival to our eyes to even get a glimpse of these vegetations. What we see here in the city are the ones sold in the vegetable markets, after few hours of transportation from their fields. By the time they reach our place they are all half dead. But here to see them grow on their plants & trees is a feast in itself. I get all thrilled looking at them. When in use, to pluck them by your own hands, the feel of their tightness & freshness with dew drops on them is great. You also get to see them in their original form completely alive & in gay. Once they are cooked & eaten, the satisfaction that I ate fresh veggies & fruits, free of chemicals, is worth the trouble taken in plucking them.

We have many fruits like Butter Fruit, Cashew, Different Kinds of Mango, Chiku or the Sapota, Guava, Kokum, Coconut, Jack fruit, Kinds of Banana, Arecanut etc.,

ONAGIDA ADIKE (SUPARI or DRIED ARECANUT)


TENGINAKAAYI(COCONUT)


BUTTER FRUIT (BENNE HANNU)


GUJJE (RAW JACKFRUIT)


HALASINA SOLE (JACKFRUIT)



MAAVINA HANNU or KUKU or MANGO


ADIKE


GERU HANNU (CASHEW FRUIT)


MAAVINA KAAYI


GERU HANNU


PUNAR PULI or BIRINDA (KOKUM)


In vegetables we have Alasande called as Yard Long Beans or Runner Beans, Lady's Finger, Brinjal (Eggplant KING of vegetables), Noolkol (Kohlrabi or Cabbage Turnip), Green Chilli, Green & Lal (Red) Saag, Gooseberry, Jeegujje (Breadfruit), Bimbuli (a sweet & sour fruit used to make Pickle, Chutney & curries prepared mostly in M'lore) etc.,

BIMBULI


ALASANDE


BENDEKAYI


BADANEKAYI


NOOLKHOL


HASI MENASINAKAAYI


CABBAGE TURNIP (NOOLKHOL)


JEEGUJJE (BREAD FRUIT)


BIMBULI


There are other vegetation's which are medicinal as well as used in some Mangalorean Cuisine like Thimare (Brahmi leaves), Basale Soppu (Basella Alba or the Malabar Spinach which comes both red stemmed as well as gree stemmed), Sambrani Soppu(Doddapatre in Kannada), Neem, Curry Leaves, Turmeric Leaves & many many more which I hardly remember right now.

SAMBRANI SOPPU




THEEMARE SOPPU (BRAHMI LEAVES)


There were many more, but no more, after my Badepapa passed away. Fruit like Pineapple.

They also made honey (bee keeping) at home then, but history now as it takes a lot of patience & your time.