Ulluco

Ullucus tuberosusAlso called ullucus

Ulluco is a tuber used as a vegetable. It is crisp and firm when cooked, and cooks boil, simmer, pickle, or add it to stews.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

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

Category: Vegetables
Part used: Tuber
Family: Basellaceae
Texture: Crisp, firm
Cooked most in: The Americas
Top country: Peru
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Nzfauna · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use ulluco

Typical ways to cook or use it

Boil simmer
Pickle
Stew

Preparing it

Cut the tubers into thin strips.

Cooking with it

Its high water content makes it unsuitable for frying or baking. It stays crisp after cooking.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture, cooked

Crisp
Firm

Around the world

Where ulluco is cooked

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

Dishes by continent

The Americas1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Peru 1

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

Origins

The 1850s · Europe
Attempts to grow ulluco in Europe after potato blights did not succeed on a large scale.

On the table

Dishes made with ulluco

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Olluquito
Peru

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: ulluco 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 ulluco is called

Names in 44 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Ullucus tuberosus · Melloca tuberosa · Chugua · Ullucus kunthii
French
Ulluco · Ullucus tuberosus · Ulluque
Italian
Ullucus tuberosus · Ulluco · Olluco · Papalisa
Portuguese
Ullucus
German
Olluco · Ullucus tuberosus · Ollucos · Knollenbaselle
Dutch
Ullucus tuberosus
Russian
Уллюко · Уллюко клубненосный · Ullucus tuberosus
Polish
Olluco
Arabic
أولوكو الدرني
Hebrew
אויוקו
Japanese
ウルーコ
Korean
울류쿠

Show all 44 languages

Albanian
Ullucus tuberosus
Aragonese
Ullucus tuberosus
Asturian
Ullucus tuberosus
Aymara
Ulluku
Basque
Ullucus tuberosus
Brazilian Portuguese
Ullucus tuberosus
Breton
Ullucus tuberosus
Bulgarian
Ullucus tuberosus
Catalan
ulluco
Cebuano
Ullucus tuberosus
Croatian
Ulukus
Czech
melok hlíznatý · Ullucus tuberosus · Ulluco
Danish
Ullucus
Esperanto
Ullucus tuberosus
Extremaduran
Ullucus tuberosus
Finnish
ulluko · Ullucus tuberosus · ulluco
Galician
Ullucus tuberosus
Ido
Ullucus tuberosus
Interlingua
Ullucus tuberosus
Interlingue
Ullucus tuberosus
Irish
Ullucus tuberosus
Kurdish
Ullucus
Latin
Ullucus tuberosus
Lithuanian
Gumbinis uliukas · Ullucus tuberosus
Norwegian Bokmål
ulloco
Occitan
Ullucus tuberosus
Quechua
Ulluku · Ullucus tuberosus · Papa lisa · Papalisa
Romanian
Ullucus tuberosus
Swedish
Ullucus tuberosus
Ukrainian
Ульюко бульбоносна
Vietnamese
Ullucus tuberosus
Volapük
Ullucus tuberosus
Waray
Ullucus tuberosus

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: Q1478038

Photos

Photo: Nzfauna · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons