Pomegranates

Curry_Queen

Now the season for pomegranates is upon us once again, do any of you have any weird and wonderful ways of using this fruit, other than sitting there with a pin/cocktail stick and patiently picking out the seeds ... which my DS is currently doing but at least it's keeping him quiet

I know Nigella has a recipe in one of her books for a warm salad, which involves shredded lamb and mint, but I don't recall seeing many/any recipes otherwise

moggins

Nope sorry, I just cut mine into quarters and pick the seeds out one by one getting wonderfully sticky hands in the process

powie69

I found the following links for some recipes for you

http://www.lfm.org.uk/rec_item.asp?NewsID=18 -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/deepfriedauberginean_65980.shtml -

http://www.ummah.com/family/recipes/pomegran.html

Hope these help

Curry_Queen

Thanks for those powie :T ... I love the sound of the second one in particular so will try that when I get some more aubergines


Actually ... :think: ... I suppose there's no reason why I can't add them to any sort of couscous salad, so no need to wait until I get aubergines! :dance:

Ted_Hutchinson

moggins wrote:

Nope sorry, I just cut mine into quarters and pick the seeds out one by one getting wonderfully sticky hands in the process

Here's a way to get the arils out of a Pomegranate without getting your fingers messy.

and some good recipes


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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Usefulness: [/font] [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It is useful in diarrhea and increases the hemoglobin of the blood. [/font]

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frugglewump

Pomegranate juice is lovely. I scoop all the seeds into the food processor, mush it all up, then strain out the seeds.

I'm not so good on recipes, but we always included pomegranates and satsumas in the sweets bowl for trick-treaters. Satsumas is from my mum's family - back from when they were very new. Pomegranates is a traditional thing - relating to myth of Persephone.

ashmit

Cut them in half, hold over a plate and whack hard with the back of a wooden spoon. Most of the seeds fall out, and the rest aren't too bad to pick out.

MATH

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Usefulness: [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It is useful in diarrhea and increases the hemoglobin of the blood. [/font]

Have you ever thought of writing a cookery book Ted? With such mouth watering descriptions I can't wait to see the photos:p

2ax

Zziggi wrote:

.. My OH was reading about pomegranates last week and they are apparently good for you in some many areas

There was even a recent article on Newsnight about this

Pink.

Please can users refrain from posting about the medicinal properites of pomegranates. Martin has requested that no medical advice be given on these boards, please see what he has written here.

Thank you,

Pink

Bun

Waitrose sell it too!!!
Drank gallons of the stuff as a pregnancy craving...