Rambutan
Saw these in the grocery store, did a little research on Wiki.
How do you prepare/eat them? Thanks!
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9 Comments:
They are like a lychee. Just cut around the equator of the fruit, open it and you will find the small round fruit. Enjoy.
finsbigfan at 4:51PM on 08/12/09
what fins said...no prep needed. get 'em open and enjoy. mind the seed in the middle.
BananaMonkey at 5:18PM on 08/12/09
Just peel the fuzzy skin off and remove the pit from the white fleshy edible part. That's all there is to it. One thing to note, rambutan can be slightly tart. I think it's from the underripen ones and I really don't know how to tell when this fruit is ripe or not. Maybe you can take a sniff and if it smells sweet, it's ready?
AnnieNT at 5:33PM on 08/12/09
I feel like you're missing the point of the rambutan!
Bite through the skin just until you get to the meat, you get a weirdly tart taste in your mouth and you get to chomp around the soft spines. tear off half the outside with the large bite you just took. Sink your teeth in the flesh and pull it out of the rest of the shell. Eat that sucker without biting through the seed.
We used to have rambutan/longan/lychee/durian feasts when I was a kid. I never got to the rest of the fruit though, I was stuck on the rambutans.
mmmm. rambutans.
froggo at 5:53PM on 08/12/09
i love rambutan! I miss them. They were so much better and cheaper in SE Asia. Enjoy!
engmcmuffin at 9:31PM on 08/12/09
I'm with froggo here. There is no need to involve cutlery and other fancy items, chomp your teeth into those suckers to open them up!! Hmmm... what I wouldn't do for some right now...
chlamers at 11:49PM on 08/12/09
The easiest method is to open it with your fingers, no teeth or cutlery involved: locate the 'ridge/line' (or 'equator' as finsbigfan refers it) on a rambutan, put both thumbs on either side of it and twist open the skin. If the rambutan is ripe, the skin should rip open along that 'line'.
Pop the translucent globe into your mouth whole and spit out the seed when you're done :) (the ease of how the flesh separates from the seed depends on the variety of the rambutan).
Enjoy! :)
cucumberpandan at 12:22AM on 08/13/09
I tried a lychee once. I didn't like it. Maybe it was old/bad/of generally unsatisfactory quality. Maybe I should give them another try. Are they supposed to be a little slimy?
beth1 at 5:44PM on 08/13/09
@beth: not at all!
Takat at 10:46PM on 08/13/09