Don’t let the Jackfruit drop. When fruit fall, they do different things. Some splatter, others crack. A few may bounce. Some roll down the beach and float across the Ocean. But one fruit simply shakes the earth, the Jackfruit. A distant relative of mulberry and the largest tree fruit in the world. A Southeast Asia native and the national fruit of Bangladesh, this behemoth can grow up to 4 feet long and can weigh up to 80 ponds, though watermelon size about the average Relatively little known in America, the Jackfruit may be familiar sight to those who visit Chinese and Indian markets which carry the fresh in right seasons and recently have fresh ones, they come from Mexico. So what’s in it for you? When ripe the inner section the heap shaggy material is called. “rags” is eaten raw when ripe while some use it soups, in others dishes or as desert. The inner section when not ripe is used mostly as vegetables in Indian communities. It a little rubbery, gluey slickly inside and most portions can be eaten. Inside the glue like sap that can only be cleaned with oil stained hands and knifes then can cooked to desired dish. Infect Jackfruit is the only fruit species that that has two purpose, one as vegetable when not ripe and fruit and when it is full blown. When eaten as fruit it tastes like a cross between pineapple and dried mango. You also get about a pound of edible starchy seeds. Different country in Asia has its own way of utilizing it, mostly it’s eaten when very ripe but in the Indian community it is mostly consumed when not ripe as vegetable. The cooking tactics vary from country to country because Indians’ of different ethnicity and spice usage. Mostly it is cooked in curry spice or you may call “masala” to desired taste of chili, herbs, spice the hotness preference. It is mostly served with chapatti which drills in like burrito, chapatti broken into bite size with hand then the vegan curry is picked up then consumed. It is delicacy for most Indian social occasions... Finally, fresh in fragment too, - a potpourri of tangy , tropical scents- and very importantly will provide you with a strong piece of vocabulary for future wine tasting occasion, just a little abstract overhaul thought of taste.., Lawrence Lal Publisher US Fiji India Times..
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:02:29 +0000