I've been looking through my SW book again for ideas.
On the list of superfree fuit, there are lots of fruit I have never heard of. Anyone tried Indian gooseberries, cashew fruit, custard apple, grenadilla, jambu fruit, jujube, kiwano, loquats, mammie apple, mangosteen, pomelo, prickly pears, rambutan, sapodilla, tamarillos or ugli fruit?
If you have tried any of these, what were they like?
I did try some star fruit (carambola). It looks very nice when sliced, but has no flavour.
Annie
Agree with you about the star fruit. Pretty but tasteless.
Not sure I would want an Indian gooseberry:
"The taste of Indian gooseberry is sour, bitter and astringent, and is quite fibrous. In India, it is common to eat gooseberries steeped in salt water and turmeric to make the sour fruits palatable".
The cashew fruit comes from the same tree as the cashew nut.
I have tried mangosteen, rambutan, pomelo, tamarillo, and ugli fruit and liked them all. Unfortunately pomelo and ugli fruit are related to grapefruit so I can't have those any more.
A kiwano is also called a horned melon, and I have had one of those, but was disappointed as it did not seem to have much of a taste.
If you want to see pictures of all these fruit, then have a look at Wikipedia:
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and put the name in the search box. There are very good descriptions and in most cases photographs so you can have a look for them in shops.
I think that SW lists them for three reasons:
(a) so that if we come across them in the supermarket and are interested we can check if they are free;
(b) to make us curious and try something new;
(c) because SW caters for people from all ethnic and national groups - some of these fruit will be quite well known to people originating from India, for example.
Although these unusual fruits can be expensive in the supermarket (although there are often special offers), if you have an area in your town where there are Indian or West Indian greengrocers they are often much cheaper there. And you can ask for advice on how to use them.
