Chufa Nuts

I did not know what a chufa nut is.  We put together a dish based on ignorance.  Well, it is not truly ignorance, for we based the dish on the taste of the chufa nut rather than the history of the nut and its past uses.  The raw nut is extremely crunchy with an underlying nuttiness.  When the nut is toasted it tastes of toasted cereal.  The nut takes on a more developed flavor with the light toasting in butter.  Anyway, we paired the nut with our grape-chipotle puree, roasted scallop and epazote, topped with our smoked peanut soup.  It turns out, the chufa nut (also know as the tiger nut and the base for traditional horchata) accents the flavors of our smoked peanut and happily compliments the concord grape-chipotle puree.