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Picardia (Jicama Salad)

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Category: Mexican, Salads

 Ingredients List

  • 1 Jicama (about 6" in
  • -diameter), peeled and
  • -chopped
  • 3 Limes
  • 3 Serrano chiles, stemed and
  • -minced -or-
  • 2 Jalapeno chiles, stemed and
  • -minced
  • 8 Mint leaves, chopped
  • Lettuce leaves

 Directions

Put the chopped jicama in a bowl. Squeeze the limes and pour the juice over
the jicama. Mix chopped chiles and mint leaves into jicama and lime juice.
Serve on lettuce leaves.

>From the book:

Shoppers and Mercado Libertad wouldn't think of buying jicama without the
tuber's leaves attached. "No leaves is the sure sign of age," claims Senora
Anguiano at her stall of precisely arranged vegetables, netxt to a
three-foot pile of freshlyunearthed jicama,...a large tuber with a sweet
taste and the texture of water chestnuts. People of Jalisco eat refreshing
jicama often, as a minced salsa ingredient, sliced in green salads, sliced
into spear and sprinkled with chile powder, or chopped in picardia. Senora
Anguiano's daughters, both teenagers, love huge amounts of this
low-calorie, delicious, easy-to-prepare salad.

Note: probably won't find them with leaves on in the US.

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