requirement in the central Himalayas. There are some vegetable cuisines apart from
common vegetable only cooked in the Uttarakand hills, which are seasonal, but have
medicinal value. One of such vegetable plant Fagopyrum esculentum Moench is also known
as common buckwheat. In Hindi it is known as Kotu, Phaphra and in Kumaon as ogal
belonging to family Polygonaceae. The name “buckwheat” comes from the Anglo-saxon