Huauzontle : The huauzontle is a species de plants edible native du Mexico (family of Amaranthaceae – Botanical name Chenopodium nuttalliae).
He's known under the names common huauzontle (literally “hairy amaranth”, from Nahuatl huauhtli “amaranth” and tzontli “hair”) and broccoli Aztec (*).
other variants of the name include huauhzontle, huazontle, huanzontle and guausoncle.
It is related to other plants fluently consumed such as the Quinoa
amaranth and epazote, as well as bad herbs U.S. common.
(*) Aztec: The Aztecs, or Mexicas, were a people Native American of the Nahua group, that is to say of the Nahuatl language. They had definitely settled in the central plateau of the Mexico, in the valley of Mexico, on an island in lake texcoco, around the beginning of the XNUMXth century century.
La plants shoot several ribs erected with rods hardwoods green tinted de Red the rods by Huauzontle look superficially au broccoli, even though rods be much more Finnish and bear less than leaves.
As'amaranth, the huauzontle is very resistant French climates cold et dry, and shoot even in Suns poor. Additionally, he has a level nutritional and the greater, which makes it a excellent alternative cereals about regions having difficulties à sow others types de cereals.
During the reign of Moctezuma (**), the huauzontle and theamaranth were the fourth cultures most important, after corn
beans and chia. Many cities paid homage during the Aztec Empire to the huauzontle.
(**) Moctezuma (1466 – June 29, 1520), whose name is also written according to certain spelling variants, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma and whose full original name in Nahuatl is Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, was the ninth huey tlatoani (ruler) of Mexico City -Tenochtitlan. It was during his reign, from 1502 to 1520, that the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire began. Moctezuma's portrayal in history has mostly been influenced by his role as king of a defeated nation, and many sources portray him as weak and indecisive. The bias of some historical sources makes it difficult to understand his real conduct during the Spanish invasion.
Culinary use of huauzontle : As for the other members of the family of Amaranthaceae
leaves
ribs
flowers (inflorescences) Et les seeds of huauzontle are all groceries. The plants is used both as grass and like vegetable in the mexican food. Although consommé in all Mexico, it is most often consommé center du Countries, a Private in the states of Tlaxcala, Mexico, Guerrero, Morelos and South de Mexico.
The dish most popular is the pancakes huauzontle farcies au cheese et topped de tomato sauce.
Alternatively, huauzontles can be placed into a dough French eggs et frits with an stick de cheese Mexican dirty. The huauzontle is in use for season many salads, the ahuautles (species bybugs aquatic of the Corixidae family) to the sauce au pasilla pepper and netting de beef the seeds by huauzontle blackberries can also be ground en all-purpose flour to make tortillas.
Toxicity potential du huauzontle : As the Quinoa, another plants du gender Chenopodium, the huauzontle contains several saponins, but less amount. even though saponins be toxiques formen, the huauzontle in contains of if small quantities that they do not present any risk. Moreover, the saponins are difficult à absorber for the human body and are mostly made inactive when they are cooked.
