Pomegranates....in love

D

divagirl

Cathlete
I don't think this fruit has gotten itself out there enough other than the juiced version. I never knew how to really eat this until I stumbled upon some directions for getting the seeds out.

I'm totally in love with this fruit now. I even put it in my cottage cheese for the burst of flavor. I look forward to eating it every afternoon now and its only in season until February. POM has a great website about the fruit.

Just some information for anyone looking for a change. I'd imagine it would great mixed in with some vanilla icecream too as a treat :p
 
I LOVE pomegranates, Trader Joe's has it, it's ready to eat, just the red seeds - no hassle getting the seeds out.

I put it on my yogurt or on oatmeal with yogurt! YUMMYYY!!! Just talking about it, I am getting hungry again }(
 
I've been eating lots of pomegranates lately too. I just eat them plain. And I like that they take a while to eat!

Amy
 
I, too, have been eating them a lot lately. I love them. I put the seeds in my salad sometimes but mostly just grab some and eat them.

Joanne
 
I'm a hard core pom fan going back decades now. Eat them sitting on the sofa or at a table in front of the bowl and just working at it. The best is when you crack open a quarter and find a huge chunck of seeds in one spot and then bite into it like an apple, juice everywhere!! YUM!!! just had one the other night - wish the season was longer
 
I got Pomegranates coming out my ears. We have 5 trees and picked over 300 off of three of them. Learned how to make juice and have several quarts frozen. The pure juice is really strong and delicious. I didn't have a clue what kind of trees they were when we bought the property. Then they bloomed with the most beautiful orange blossums. I thought how pretty. Then these little hard green knobs started growing where the blossums were and by fall we had trees full of big red poms. Sometimes when I am out doing yard work I just pick one, smash it on the ground to break it and just stand and eat it by the mouth full and spit out the seeds.

Susan N
 
> I never knew how to really eat
>this until I stumbled upon some directions for getting the
>seeds out.

So how does one do it gracefully? (I just peel off an area of skin, and start digging seeds out from there. I don't know if that's the best technique or not).
 
Susan - you are so lucky to have pomegranates growing in your yard!!!

I love these things, too. I just love popping in a movie and spending the whole time working on my pomegranate! lol What other food can keep you entertained for so long and be relatively low cal? If I sat and ate chips for an hour, the caloric intake would not be pretty.
 
>I just pick one, smash
>it on the ground to break it and just stand and eat it by the
>mouth full and spit out the seeds.

Spit out the seeds? I've always eaten the seeds. Never even thought of spitting them out.
 
The fastest and cleanest way to get the seeds out is to cut off the ends, then cut it in quarters. Be sure to do this part on something that won't stain or can be thrown away, as the juice released will stain. Then fill a bowl full of water and roll the seeds out of each quarter. Drain your bowl full of seeds through a strainer and your done!

There's lots of fiber in those seeds. Personally, I wouldn't spit them out.

Diane
 
I do eat a few of the seeds but the ones in ours are pretty hard. There are several kinds of trees and I think some of them have seeds that are better for eating than others. Ours are probably not the good ones for seed chewing and the seeds are kinda bitter. Maybe I eat them to soon.

Susan
 
The seeds are the only edible part of the fruit. They should be sweet-tart. And juicy. But they are harder seeds. Crunchy.
 
Technically, the juice sacs around the seeds, called arils, are the part we like to eat. There is a crunchy seed within the aril. When eating the arils/seed one by one, you probably don't notice the seed. But if you eat them by the spoonful, you end up with a mouthful of crunch after the juice is extracted. Some people spit this part out, others crunch away and swallow.

www.pomegranates.org has all sorts of information and recipes.

Diane
 
You know it's pomegrante season in our house when the skin under the right thumbnail is stained blue!!

Cheryl
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Our Newsletter

Get awesome content delivered straight to your inbox.

Top