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How to Prepare
Always when trying new ingredients, especially those from food cultures very different from “family traditional”, that you perform due-diligence in your research.
Culture-of-origin recommendations to transform harmful cyanide compounds:
- minimum cooking time 15 minutes,
- cook in an un-covered in a non-aluminum pan,
- in a well ventilated area.
- It has been reported that consuming small amounts of un-cooked Chaya under very specific recipe preparations could probably be consumed with no harmful effects. I choose not to consume this plant without cooking.