Breadfruit Bliss
After the cricket match on Boxing Day, we went to friends who live at Kerevat. Debbie is a great cook and she makes something everyone needs to taste before they die – breadfruit chips!!
The breadfruit is picked before it is ripe, sliced up and deep-fried in coconut oil. Bliss!!
Breadfruit comes from a tall tree which grows in tropical areas; fast growing, it can get to a height of 28 metres. Click here to find out how breadfruit caused the Mutiny on the Bounty!!!
24 comments:
Prior to my toothy troubles, I loved trying new foods!
--breadfruit --I have always wondered what it tasted like.
Are there not enough house pets to support a part time vet in Rabaul? I guess I'm a lucky cat after all.
Read quite a lot on books about South Pacific was about breadfruit (fruta pão in portuguese).
Now got some more information about that fruit.
Once again you have entertained us with your delightful photos, and once again you have educated us. Now my mouth is watering to try some breadfruit chips.
Thanks for adding a link to my daily photo blog.
Happy New Year!
You know they actually have packaged breadfruit chips here in Jamaica? :-) They're pretty good actually, but nothing like having it fresh.
Most Jamaicans prefer their breadfruit roasted, so the whole breadfruit will be roasted on an open flame. Whatever roasted breadfruit is not eaten will go into the fridge and will be fried (also in coconut oil) for breakfast the next day.
Yum, I would happily try that!
That sounds good to me. I am surprised at the tale about the ship and why the expedition failed. I had not heard that. But surely must have and forgot it.
These are nice photographs and you have made the story most interesting.
I shall add it to my List of 'must do one day.' Very interesting, Jules, and sounds delicious. Super pics of the fruit too.
What a great post, make me want to taste that some day...
Interesting looking at it up close.
hmmm, I would love to try these. They look delicious.
Those sound great... next time have an extry potion for me.. :O)
I do hope this message finds you and your loved one happy and well.
Tom
Tried and liked it in Brazil!
Wish you a very happy, healthy and successful 2008!
Blogtrotter
Sounds good...I think there's a mutiny brewing here! lol
That sounds so good. I would love to try it right now. I hear my tummy growling for lunch.
Thanks for the interesting information too. I didn't know the reason.
Have a happy New Year too.
Sounds yummy, wish I could taste them haha.
come and see Buckfast Abbey and the Water Wheel Mill.
Hi All - wish i could send you all some!!!
ann - would love to taste those - but as with everything fresh is best.
Your extra info was great - thanks
Yummy. Thanks for sharing the history of the fruit. It is very interesting.
Fried! Isn't that heresy these days? But delicious heresy, I know.
I reckon I had better look out for breadfruit in Adelaide. Those chips look 'corker'.
Thanks for all your warm Christmas wishes, Jules. As you know, we have been in Sydney and unfortunately, didn't get even close to a computer. I hope yours was beaut and you put on less weight than we did !!
Damn, that looks delicious!
By the way, let me wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR and that all of your dreams come true!
I tasted breadfruit in Tahiti earlier this year - and learned all about the Bounty and its crew! But I didn't have chips; it was made up into a sort of mash, like mashed potato but gluggier. Wasn't quite my cup of tea but the chips in coconut oil sound delicious if a tad fattening. We're a bit bigger than we were before Christmas - the merry season was merry indeed.
Feliz Ano Novo (Portuguese)
Happy New Year.
Hi,
History of tree -and more- up now
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