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Tiger nut<\/strong>
\nCyperus esculentus L.<\/em><\/p>\n

Annual plant with edible tubers. Also known as: earth almond, chufa nut. Can be eaten raw, grilled. Makes an excellent vegetable milk “horchata de chufa”, a traditional Spanish drink with a delicious, sweet taste. It can also be used to make flour or extract oil. Egyptian heirloom vegetable. Easy to grow. 50 cm tall plant resembling a grass. Grows well in container. Does not survive winter and is not invasive in our hardiness zone 4b, but a few have survived in the greenhouse. Harvesting, cleaning and drying tiger nuts.<\/a><\/p>\n

Direct sowing after any risk of frost or indoor sowing (recommended) 3 to 6 weeks before. 2 cm deep, 40 cm between plants. Germinates best in warm conditions, 7-30 days at 28-30\u00b0C. <\/p>\n

Germination: 80% in January 2026<\/strong>
\nEcological seeds produced at Catherine’s Ornamental Garden.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>
\nTiger nuts are harvested in autumn, when the leaves are quite dry, or immediately after a frost. If you grow it in a pot, harvesting is fairly easy. We grow them in the ground. We loosen the soil with a fork as for carrots, then we pull up the plants. Tubers still attached to the roots can then be picked up.<\/p>\n

Cleaning is done immediately. Take a container adapted to the quantity you have: a strainer, a bucket, a hamster cage, etc. Then spray with a good garden spray gun. The more pressure, the better. We spray with the pressure washer <\/a>and remove as much of the muddy water as possible. It takes us 20 to 30 minutes to clean a 30-foot bed (\u00b1180 plants). We take the opportunity to remove the remaining rocks. The wet tubers are then spread out in front of a fan to dry quickly. Once dry, we transfer them to a large mesh laundry bag<\/a>, which we hang in the garage for a few weeks for final curing. We can then store our harvest in a paper bag, just as we store garlic.<\/p>\n

Some tiger nut milk<\/a> recipes contain added sugar, but tiger nuts are naturally sweet and delicious. We prefer it plain, with just 2 ingredients: tiger nuts and water.<\/p>\n

We use a NutriBullet blender to reduce tiger nuts to powder. It is then passed through a fine sieve. Tigernut flour is used in exactly the same way as almond powder: Recipes with almond powder – without almonds<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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