Gotu kola

Centella asiaticaAlso called Indian pennywort, Asiatic pennywort, tiger grass and cica

Gotu kola is a vegetable used for its leaves. Cooks eat the leaves raw or use them in paste blends and stir-fries.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

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

Category: Vegetables
Part used: Leaf
Family: Apiaceae
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Md. Siddiq Hasan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use gotu kola

Typical ways to cook or use it

Paste blend
Raw
Stir fry

Preparing it

Finely chop gotu kola for malluma. Remove the fruit-bearing structures for malluma; they taste intensely bitter.

Around the world

Where gotu kola is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses gotu kola. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list gotu kola among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to: Africa, Asia, Australia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, South-eastern Asia, United States

On the table

Dishes made with gotu kola

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Nasi ulam
Indonesia

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: gotu kola 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 gotu kola is called

Names in 76 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Centella asiatica · Gotu Kola · Antanan · Centella asiática
French
Centella asiatica · Gotu Kola · Antanan · Pegaga
Italian
Centella asiatica · Erba della tigre e dell'elefante · Erba delle tigri · Gotu kola
Portuguese
Centela · Gotu Kola · Centella asiática · Centella asiatica
German
Indischer Wassernabel · Gotu Kola · Hydrocotyle asiatica · Tigergras
Dutch
Pegagan
Russian
Центелла азиатская · Gotu Kola · Trisanthus cochinchinensis · Hydrocotyle asiatica
Polish
wąkrotka azjatycka
Arabic
كينتيللا أسياتيكا
Persian
آب‌قاشقی · آب قاشقی · اب‌قاشقی · اب قاشقی
Hindi
मण्डूकपर्णी
Bangla
থানকুনি · ব্রহ্মমন্ডূকী

Show all 76 languages

Achinese
Peugaga
Albanian
Centella asiatica
Aragonese
Centella asiatica
Assamese
বৰ-মানিমুনি
Asturian
Centella asiatica
Azerbaijani
Asiya sentellası · Trisanthus cochinchinensis · Centella asiatica · Hydrocotyle asiatica
Balinese
Piduh
Banjar
Jalukap
Basque
Centella asiatica
Batak Toba
Ampapaga
Bavarian
Gotu Kola
Bishnupriya
পিরও
Brazilian Portuguese
Centella asiatica
Bulgarian
готу кола
Burmese
မြင်းခွာပင်
Cantonese
崩大碗
Catalan
hidrocòtile · Hydrocotile · Hydrocotyle asiatica · Centel·la asiàtica
cdo
鱟桸碗
Cebuano
Centella asiatica
Chinese
积雪草 · 雷公根 · 蚶殼草 · 铜钱草
Czech
pupečník asijský
Egyptian Arabic
كينتيللا اسياتيكا
Esperanto
Centella asiatica
Extremaduran
Centella asiatica
Finnish
rohtosammakonputki · Gotu kola · Centella asiatica · Hydrocotyle asiatica
Galician
Centella asiatica
Gorontalo
Tingalahula
Hungarian
ázsiaigázló · Centella asiatica · ázsiai gázló · gotu kola
Iban
Pegaga
Ido
Centella asiatica
Indonesian
Pegagan
Interlingua
Centella asiatica
Interlingue
Centella asiatica
Irish
Centella asiatica
Japanese
ツボクサ
Javanese
Pegagan
Kannada
ಒಂದೆಲಗ
Korean
병풀
Latin
Centella asiatica
Madurese
Gâgân · ghân-ghâghân
Malay
Pokok Pegaga · Pegaga · Pokok Antanan
Malayalam
മുത്തിൾ · കുടങ്ങൽ · Centella asiatica · മണ്ഡൂകപർണി
mnw
ဂတိုပ်ကၠောအ်၊ တၞံ
Nepali
घोडताप्रे
Occitan
Centella asiatica
Odia
ଥାଲକୁଡ଼ି
Punjabi
ਗੋਟੂ ਕੋਲਾ
Romanian
Centella asiatica
Shan
တူၼ်ႈၽၵ်းၼွၵ်ႇ · ၽၵ်းၼွၵ်ႇ · ၽၵ်းလၢင်ႊ
Simplified Chinese
崩大碗
Simplified Chinese (China)
积雪草 · 崩大碗
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
崩大碗
Sinhala
ගොටුකොල
Slovak
pupočník ázijský
Slovenian
Centella asiatica · gotu kola · azijski vodni popnjak · cica
Sundanese
Antanan · Nyalinyit · Nyalincit
Swedish
Sallatsspikblad · Hydrocotyle asiatica · Gotu kola · Centella asiatica
Tamil
வல்லாரை
Telugu
సరస్వతీ ఆకు · బ్రహ్మి
Thai
บัวบก · ใบบัวบก
Tongan
Tono · Carinta herbacea · Geophila repens · Geophila reniformis
Traditional Chinese
積雪草 · 崩大碗
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
崩大碗
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
雷公根 · 積雪草
Tulu
ತಿಮರೆ
Ukrainian
Centella asiatica
Vietnamese
Rau má · Centella asiatica
Volapük
Centella asiatica
Waray
Centella asiatica
Western Panjabi
منڈی بوٹی
Zhuang
Byaeknok

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
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q324714

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