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Chayote

Sicyos edulisAlso called Sicyos edulis and pear squash

Chayote is a fruit that cooks treat as a vegetable. It is firm when raw and crisp when cooked. Cooks use it raw or pickle, marinate, bake, boil, simmer, sauté, stew, stir-fry, or stuff it.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Vegetables
Part used
Fruit
Family
Cucurbitaceae
Texture
Crisp, firm
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Chayote, market

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use chayote

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Boil simmer
  • Marinade
  • Pickle
  • Raw
  • Saute
  • Stew
  • Stir fry
  • Stuff

Preparing it

Peeling is not necessary before cooking or frying slices.

Cooking with it

Cook it lightly to keep its crunch. In soups and stews, it takes on flavors from the other ingredients.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture, cooked

  • Crisp

Texture, raw

  • Firm

Shopping

Choosing and storing chayote

Choosing a good one

Choose firm green fruit without brown spots or sprouts. For greater tenderness, choose smaller fruit. Dark green fruit is more tender than the lighter variety.

On the table

Dishes made with chayote

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Mi Gomak

    Indonesia

  • Pedis panas

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include chayote.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: chayote in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Around the world

What chayote is called

Names in 81 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Sicyos edulis · Chayote

  • French

    Sicyos edulis · chayote · christophine · chouchou

  • Italian

    Sicyos edulis

  • Portuguese

    Sicyos edulis

  • German

    Sicyos edulis · Schuschu

  • Dutch

    Sicyos edulis

  • Turkish

    Sechium edule

  • Russian

    Sicyos edulis

  • Polish

    Sicyos edulis

  • Arabic

    شايوت

  • Persian

    چایوت

  • Hebrew

    צ'יוטה

Show all 81 languages

  • Albanian

    Sicyos edulis

  • Aragonese

    Sicyos edulis

  • Asturian

    Sicyos edulis

  • Balinese

    Waluh Jepang

  • Bangla

    স্কোয়াশ (সবজি)

  • Basque

    Chaiote

  • Belarusian

    Чаёт ядомы

  • Bikol

    Sayotes

  • Bislama

    Susut

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Sicyos edulis

  • Breton

    Chouchou

  • Bulgarian

    обикновен чайот · Sicyos edulis

  • Burmese

    ဂေါ်ရခါးပင်

  • Cantonese

    合掌瓜

  • Catalan

    Xaiota

  • cdo

    Hiŏng-iòng-guă

  • Cebuano

    Sicyos edulis

  • Chinese

    佛手瓜 · 仙瓜 · 合掌瓜 · 洋瓜

  • Croatian

    Meksički krastavac

  • Czech

    Čajot

  • Egyptian Arabic

    شايوت

  • Esperanto

    Ĉajoto

  • Extremaduran

    Sicyos edulis

  • Filipino

    Sayote

  • Finnish

    kajottikurpitsa

  • Galician

    Caioteira

  • Georgian

    ჩაიოტი

  • Gorontalo

    Labu Siam

  • Guarani

    Chuchu

  • Haitian Creole

    Militon

  • Ido

    Sicyos edulis

  • Indonesian

    Labu siam

  • Interlingua

    Sicyos edulis

  • Interlingue

    Sicyos edulis

  • Irish

    Sicyos edulis

  • Japanese

    ハヤトウリ · センナリウリ · 隼人瓜 · 千成瓜

  • Javanese

    Labu siam

  • Kannada

    ಸೀಮೆಬದನೆ

  • Kazakh

    Мексикалық қияр

  • Korean

    차요테

  • Kyrgyz

    Чайот

  • Latin

    Sicyos edulis

  • Latvian

    čajots · dārzeņu bumbieris · ēdamais čajots

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    Xaiote

  • Macedonian

    максиканска краставица · чајот · чоко

  • Maithili

    स्कुस

  • Malay

    Pokok Labu Siem

  • Malayalam

    ചൊച്ചക്ക ചെടി · ചൗചൗ · ചച്ചിയ്ക്ക · ചച്ചയ്ക്ക

  • Mingrelian

    ჩაიოტი

  • nah

    Chayohtli

  • Nepali

    स्कुस

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Chayote

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    Chayote

  • Occitan

    Sicyos edulis

  • Pampanga

    Sayote

  • Romanian

    Sicyos edulis

  • Santali

    ᱤᱥᱠᱩᱸᱥ

  • Scots

    Chayote

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    佛手瓜

  • Slovenian

    Sicyos edulis · Čajota

  • Sundanese

    Gamas

  • Swedish

    Sechium edule

  • Telugu

    బెంగుళూరు వంకాయ

  • Thai

    ฟักแม้ว

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    佛手瓜

  • Ukrainian

    Sicyos edulis

  • Uzbek

    Chayot

  • Vietnamese

    Sicyos edulis

  • Volapük

    Sicyos edulis

  • Waray

    Sicyos edulis

  • Wu Chinese

    佛手瓜

  • Yiddish

    טשאיאטע

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q38646266

Photos

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons