Try the Jackfruit - called Khannun in Thai - The giant fruit is somewhat like a durian but even bigger, it takes an expert to open it with a sharp knife. But people usually don’t buy a whole fruit. The vendor will open it and take the edible yellowish flesh out for retail. The taste is lightly sweet and the texture is fibrous, unlike just about any other fruit. The jackfruit is the largest tree-born fruit in the world. A single pod can reach a length of nearly a meter and weigh close to 40 kilograms. Its a rather tedious job separating the edible part from the rest of the fruit, but vendors can usually sell them almost as fast as they can extract them. Its large seeds are edible after being boiled, and are nutritious too. Jackfruit appears to have originated in western India. It spread through the rest of India and on to South-east Asia. The tree is large and the fruit grows out of the trunk not at the tip of limbs. You can spot a few trees on your way up to the mountain-top temples in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Newcomers sometimes mistake jackfruit for a type of durian, but the bumps on the jackfruit are not sharp like the durian. The skin is light green in color, sometimes shifting to yellow in ripe fruit. The large outer skin is really just a sort of sack, containing as many as 500 seed pods attached to a woody center core. The seeds are quite large, but its the juicy membrane that surrounds them that is the edible part. The seed sacks are the color of a ripe banana skin, and smell like a mixture of banana and pineapple. You can find the jackfruit almost all year round in Thailand.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:34:08 +0000
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