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Sunday, March 29, 2009

How to Eat a Pomegranate; Three Different Ways

By Paula Danks

Florida, Arizona and California are a few of the US states that grow pomegranate. They are of course more common in their native south asian countries like India, Iraq, Pakistan, Afganistan, and Turkey where the summers are very hot but the winters are cooler but not icy.

The skin on this red colored fruit is a little tough and not easy to peel. The best way to peel it is to cut the top of first, slice the skin into 4 different sections, like you would do if you were cutting up an apple or orange. Soak the fruit in a bowl of water for a few minutes to soften it up. Then break the fruit apart in the bowl of water. The tasty fruit inside, the arils, will sink to the bottom and the white rind and separators will float to the top.

The red outside shell of the fruit is not good to eat. In fact it is quite tough and sometimes hard to get into. The best way to open this fruit is to remove the top, section it without going all the way through and put it in a bowl of water for several minutes. Then pull the fruit apart while it still sits in the water. The heavier, fruit-laden seeds will sink to the bottom while the white inside walls and rind will float to the top. Remove the resulting top layer and drain the remaining fruit. Now you can eat it easily!

How you eat a pomegranate entirely up to you. The seeds are even edible so you can just pop the whole fruit into your mouth and chew. However, many people choose to just eat the fruit around the seeds and discard the seeds, which once dried can be ground up as seasoning for a large variety of dishes. Some countries actually use them in soups and stews. They are also quite delicious if you simply top them onto plain or vanilla yogurt.

Another method of how to eat a pomegranate involves cutting the fruit in halves. Cut several more segments along the rind of each half without cutting all the way through it. Turn the fruit upside down and push or tap the back with a heavy kitchen spoon or spatula. The fruit should fall right into the bowl beneath. Then you can discard the rind and eat the tasty fruit.

A third method, which could prove to be a little messier, is to cut the pomegranate in four or five parts and just scoop the seeds out with your fingers and eat them. You could also scoop them out into a bowl with a spoon and eat them the old-fashioned way. They are very sweet and sticky, and the juice can stain your fingers, your clothes, your counter tops and just about any surface it touches, so you want to be careful not to spill it or squirt if you can. - 17268

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