Posted on 04/13/2015 9:43:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Late last year, after 18 years of litigation, a senior government official in Kerala, south-west India was given a prison sentence after being convicted of theft. The object he stole was government property, and it was so large he had to have it cut up to get it home. A piece of art, perhaps? A precious metal? Actually, it was a 40-year-old jackfruit tree, and, once you’ve tasted its fruit, you begin to understand why he did it.
To say the jackfruit is big is an understatement. It is the largest tree-borne fruit on the planet – it isn’t unusual to come across beasts weighing up to 35kg in South America and South-east Asia. And it has been hailed as a “miracle crop” because of its size, and resistance to pests and drought. And its nutritional credentials are also impressive: researchers have suggested it could replace wheat, corn and other staple crops that may come under threat because of climate change.
Once you get through its tough, green, knobbly exterior, you’re hit with a faint whiff of onion, sticky sap and odd looking seed pods that taste like a cross between a pineapple and a pear. So far, so fruity. But what really sets the jackfruit apart is what it can do to savoury dishes, especially its ability to imitate pulled pork after several hours on the hob.
Entertainment magazine E! cited it as a “hot new vegan ingredient” after spotting it taking pork belly’s place in baos (steamed buns) at Susan Feniger’s Street Food in LA. In London, vegan street-food and supper-club contingent Club Mexicana uses it in burritos and tacos to delicious effect.
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No. It needs water
Oh, yummy!
If you have taken your wife there to shop, she will love you for it. You can overnight as the Jeju Do Sauna for about the same as a hotel room.
LOL... He stole the tree or he stole the fruit? The reporter, or editor, screwed up. It doesn’t smell “faintly of onion,” either. It really smells like rotting garbage, joke.
The seeds are good to eat, too. Boil them like chestnuts. I actually like the seeds better than the fruit.
In 1995, while riding the twisty, turning road to Hana, Maui on an antique Sportster, I almost crashed when one of those fell off a tree right in front of me and splattered all over the road. If I had dumped the bike, it would have been a hundred foot drop into the rocky surf below.
But here I am.
To this day I have not tasted jackfruit.
I saw Andrew Zimmer almost throw up when he tried Durian. If he can’t eat it I sure can’t. LOL!
It tried to kill you.
it would not be unreasonable to say “Screw Jackfruit” or similar. No one would blame you.
My question is can I grow it in Houston?
Our weather is very hot and muggy like southeast Asia for most of the year.
Then it freezes and kills all my fun plants.
Yes. Yes it did!
Ok, that was just wrong.
Correct, but “wrong”...
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