jackfruit
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
12 May
In Calcutta it is summer having temperature around 38 degree celsius. The summer vegetables like ladies finger, jackfruit, pointed gourd are cooked and eaten. The winter vegetables like cauliflowers, spring onions disappeared....
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
4 Mar
The jackfruits are really funny vegetable and fruits. When vegetable they are called enchor in bengali and eat it with potatoes and rice. When fruit they become yellow and called kanthal and is eaten leaving the seeds apart. Even...
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vilma143
@vilma143 (2915)
• Dipolog, Philippines
3 Aug
I plant the Jackfruit seed five years ago.
When it grown up now it bear a fruit.
When I smell the sweetness of the fruit.
I decided to pick and taste the juicy fruit.
The Jackfruit seed is now bearing fruits more,
I learned to...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
10 Jul
The waxgourd or wintermelon is called chalkumro in bengali. They are watery like bottlegourd. My mother and wife boil them after cutting in small pieces add the seeds of jackfruit add zeera salt turmeric and make a paste. It is...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
23 Jun
I was just amazed to see the jackfruits grow to giant size. They were giants. They bulged out of the tree and may be the gum helped in sticking the fruit and not falling down on the ground. Heavy rain in the rain forests help the...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
21 Apr 25
In bengal jackfruit is eaten both as a vegetable and also as fruit. Presently it is in vegetable form. We call it enchor in bengali. I had jackfruit curry with potatoes and ate it with chapatis. When it will get ripe it will be...
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
7 Mar 25
Loads of jackfruits I see on the trees. Hopefully there will be a demand Problem is to harvest them.
Cleaning a jackfruit is quite cumbersome It has that sticky gum that can only be cleared by using a bit of oil on the hands...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
25 Jun 24
Jackfruit is called kanthal in bengal. it is used both as a vegetable called enchor and also a fruit. The fruit comes letter. Now the vegetable part has ripened into fruit. So for the people the choice of vegetables has reduced....
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
6 Mar 24
Jackfruits are eaten in India both as fruits and vegetables. We eat them mostly as vegetable form. It can be cooked with potatoes onions and garlic in the same way as goat meat is cooked. It tastes like that of mutton. It can be...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
22 Feb 24
Today I had tangra fish curry with rice. Tangra is a river fish and is tasty. I also had jackfruit curry. Jackfruit is eaten both as a vegetable and also as fruit. As a vegetable it is cooked with potatoes and other vegetables.
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23240)
21 Dec 23
In India every part of the vegetables are cooked as food. On example is the radish. The radish vegetables are used in curry. The leaves of radish are used as a spinach or saag and cooked. Radish is also eaten as salad. The other...
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Arunima Singh
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
28 Apr 23
Good morning from this side of the planet. And maybe by the time I finish writing this post and posting it, it would be noon here. It's 11:45 AM.
Yay!! Friday is here. I...
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LK2018
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
25 Jun 22
Last week my sister -in -law gave us jackfruit.
mom shared and the others cooked another dish.
The rest of it , she made like a banana turon. But inside is jackfruit and not banana.
it was delicious when eaten. I often mistake...
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Rashna Gandhi
@Rashnag (30597)
• Surat, India
30 May 21
Hi guys,
Hope you all are doing good and enjoying your sunday. I am doing good too. I had gone to market today in morning to buy some stuff.
I saw Jackfruit and couldn't resist myself from buying...
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hotsummer
@hotsummer (13919)
• Philippines
29 Jul 20
I learned that jackfruit doesn't raise blood sugar and actually good to lower sugar level significantly for long term. I bought half kilo including the skin. But still there's lot of fruit inside of half kilo. Its actually one...
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