soursop

[headmount]

Or zurzak is what it's called in Indonesia.  During the years spent in Indonesia I fell in lust with many great fruits. The zurzak or soursop as it's called in the US was one of them. It's starting to show up from local growers here on Maui and I'm stoked. Removing all the seeds can be a chore but the results are fantastic. Unlike noni, I love the taste and it's apparently good for you. Who knew? Anyway this set up is the best I've found for getting the pulp clean of fiber and seeds the same way you clean up lilikoi. A little lime to keep it from oxidizing and add it to anything. I mix it with my limeade. Available at Mana if you're on Maui.

[diveChick]

I wondered how to prep that!  I loooove Soursop (discovered it in Colombia).  It's great in smoothies.  I buy it in frozen packages.  It's all-natural so it has to stay frozen until ready to use. Great for smoothies.

[PonoBill]

Looks like something you'd toss at people you didn't like. Isn't that supposed to give you nightmares?

[linter]

  what's that wooden tool in the bottom pic?  one of my old girlfriends would love something like that  .

[Caribsurf]

Good stuff soursop...very popular and plentiful down here in the Grenadines...

[eastbound]

it's called a pestle--was your ex a chef? pls explain

[diveChick]

it's called a pestle--was your ex a chef? pls explain

eastbound, you don't want linter to explain on here...

[linter]

Ha ha. Thank you, dc, for getting me off the hook!!

[eastbound]

sorry--thought he dated julia childs or something--tho she's a bit prim and proper.......

maybe best we move on

[raf]

We have them in the Bahamas, as well as the similar Sugar Apple, which looks a little more like a hand grenade.  Both are fairly soft skinned and not hard to handle.  Ripe ones can be torn in half by hand.  The best way to eat a ripe Soursop or Sugar Apple is to rip it into 3 or 4 pieces, find yourself a little open ground, and go to town, chomping off the white fleshy part while holding onto the skin.  The seeds are easy to work around and you just spit them out after each bite. 

The taste of the Sugar Apple is like a cross between a ripe pear, vanilla ice-cream and banana.  The Soursop is even better.  Like the best pear you ever had, but creamier and with a sour-sweet punch.