Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Star Fruit crush

These arrived with mom, from Kerala, I'm sure we get them here(in Bombay), but you know how it is in Indian families, whatever which ever faction of the family discovers 1st, it is quickly dispatched across the rest of the family, parcelled with love and firmness :) so mangoes, a certain type of lime to be pickled and rice come from Kerala and Pav (yes, of the vada pav & pav bhaji fame), fabric of all sorts & even school uniforms (!) are bought from here & sent to my cousins. This might stump my generation but is perfectly logical to the previous one. But that's not the point, the point is I'm smitten by the latest arrival. Star Fruit!! I had never seen it up close, leave alone sampled it. Everything from the way it looks whole, to the way it looks sliced to the way it tastes has me fascinated. I'm sure a whole load of you have grown up with it, and have long outgrown it. But this is new to me. Kindly indulge my childish wonder.





I promise my next post will be sane & adult :)

9 comments:

Shri said...

Irumbipuli/Irumbampuli?

lilasvb said...

carambole fruit so nice

G.AruljothiKarikalan said...

YUMMY.... I REMEMBER MY COLLEGE DAYS WHERE MY ROOM MATES GAVE ME THIS IRUMBAMPULI PICKLE...

Madhu Gopalan said...

LOL you're so cute :) I've never tried the starfruit, although I've seen it in shops a lot - your lovely pics have convinced me to go and taste them asap :) You've also reminded me to do a post on my Hyderabad blog that is long long overdue - about a dargah with a starfruit shaped dome - it's called the kamrakhi gumbaz - kamrakh is starfruit in Urdu (maybe Hindi also, not sure) :)

Ambika said...

Delightfully innocent, it must've been fun popping those stars in :) Loved the post!

vk said...

I love star fruit ;-)... you have turned it into "food art" ..awesome photos ...love how you have cut and arranged them :) ...Vani

shilpa said...

oh yeah. tell me about it. the kids did not like the taste, but were happy star-printing away in the kitchen sitting on their grandfather's (my daddy's) lap :)

Anonymous said...

Yummy! I used to have it with some salt and red chilly powder. As I am typing this, my mouth is watering... We call it Aanapulinchi.Drool drool.

rk said...

I love star fruit. I grew up with those in India and I buy even now in the US:) They are best when yellow and soft.