The stove isn’t ‘wrong’ in Jamaica a common way we cook them is in the fire flames touching, it causes the flesh to come off with more of a soft toasted bread texture when done right which readily soaks up sauces and gravy’s just like bread but holds it way better. When people moved from the farm to more of a city life it was common for people to do the stove method seeing that an open pit fire wasn’t an option.
Right! that's how I do it, that or bake it. He can also wrap it in aluminum foil when roasting it on the stove to prevent all the excessive charring and make for an easier clean-up.
@@nareegreel yup lol although I missed the family trip this year I def enjoyed cooking with all the allspice I could grind lol and other Jamaican goods lol but gonna have to wait to get me some deep fried bread fruit lol
I just stumbled across your video on roasting breadfruit on a stove or fireside. For the people that told you no one has ever done this in history is wrong. I'm from Trinidad and Tobago and my dad used to do this all the time, apart from boiling and stewing it with cod fish, tomatoes and onion, and dont forget the hot peppers. So your not wrong to have done it. Cheers!
@@junebanfield5933 please tell this man he cannot teeach anybody from the. Caribbean about breakfast....and as to roasting on the stove ,he is just learning ....so stop making it look like breakfast is a secret thing.... this thing is all over the Caribbean.....I think people are laughing at him
This man is a liar and I am calling him out. I am from Dominica in the west indies and there's nothing indigenous about bread lol ...come again pal just stop you nonsense
You have done a good job with roasting the breadfruit on top of the stove. My mother used to do this in Jamaica over 12 yrs ago. Nothing wrong with this method, except maybe wrapping the breadfruit in silver foil first...😋🌮 Try eating with ackee & saltfish.. fantastic..
As a Malaysian I love breadfruit cooked in coconut milk,palm sugar+pandan leaf kinda like sweet/porridge dessert 😋 usually we cooked in the evening for tea time Also deep fried breadfruit dip in cooked spicy chilli paste+palm sugar+shrimp paste+vinegar U can find fried breadfruit in the stall here in Malaysia usually beside road also it’s pretty common
Am from the Caribbean and I’ve cooked Breadfruit on the stove top and in the oven over many years. Peeling and boiling a breadfruit is not the only cooking method trust me. A half ripped breadfruit baked is very tasty.
Very tasty! I roast my breadfruit on the stove top wrapped in foil paper. It can also be baked in the microwave. I am from Jamaica and breadfruit is a staple in most household.
I'm jamaican and roasting it on the stove is something we do but mostly on wildfire. And oddly we fried it afterwards but sometimes we have it just roasted.
This is how it is done in Jamaica on the stove to or in an open flame on the coal (charcoal) stove. For those who do not want to tolerate the blackness from the char, they wrapped it in aluminum foil and roast it in the oven. Jamaicans do roast then fry breadfruit. The over-ripped breadfruit I used to make Breadfruit Fritters. The boiled breadfruit can be also used to make Breadfruit Salad or Breadfruit Punch. One love from Jamaica 🇯🇲
I only ate breadfruit once. It was dead ripe (brownish-black). The texture was very soft to slimey. The taste was wonderful, kind of a banana pineapple pudding flavor. I understand the custom in Polynesia was to plant a breadfruit when. Child was born to assure they would always have food
In most Caribbean countries, breadfruit can be roasted on the stove top or in an out door wood fire. In Barbados, we peel it, boil it with herbs and salted pork/pigtail and butter, mash it and serve as breadfruit coucou. It is wonderful with fried or boiled fish, beef stew etc. with a side of pickled cucumber. There is really no wrong way to eat a breadfruit.
Girl I'm in Bim and I'm always doing it on the stove lol. My husband keeps asking me why I don't just boil it. Just found out they can be eaten raw when ripe and sappy too.
Eventhough this fruit originated in my country region, this fruit not really popular here.. Me myself never try it, since it only can be found in jungle not many people plant or sale this fruit😅.. Does it taste good?
@@Daniel_0778 It's delicious when prepared properly. It's flavour can vary from sweet to bland, but it is versatile in how it can be used and it is an excellent vehicle for other flavours.
Roasting A ripe breadfruit on the stove is quite a normal thing we do in Trinidad and other parts of the Caribbean. It gives the breadfruit A sweet smokey taste that can be then mashed with salt butter, milk & cheese if u want (kinda like creamy mashed potatoes). I guess if they didn't know then they shouldn't tell you ur wrong and try to learn a new dish. 🥰
Truly amazing how much you’ve grown as a youtuber. I started watching you back almost 10 years ago randomly stumbling upon your channel because of my high interest in exotic fruits. I’m glad I’ve stayed updated with your channel as it’s amazing to see your growth and success both as a person and a creator.
In Jamaica we roast breadfruit on stove top, baked in oven and also in wood fire. We have two types of breadfruit (boiling breadfruit which we used in soups or just boiled with ground provisions and roasting breadfruit which we roast and eat it like bread or roast then fried with a little salt. Most Jamaicans know the difference between a boiling breadfruit and a roasting breadfruit when picked off the tree.
Just stumbled on this video and as a Jamaican, I agree we cook it in soups, biol it as ground provision like a potato, we also roast it on the stove top, wood fire or in the Oven.
In Cebu, Philippines, we call breadfruit as colo/kolo and we used to have the tree growing in our backyard and we usually ate it boiled and sprinkled with a bit of sugar. It's like free snacks. So sad that the tree got knocked out by a supertyphoon a few months ago.
I first heard of this fruit when I read "mutiny on board HMS Bounty" in the year 1994. I asked elders what is breadfruit do we have any hindi name for this and all I got was there is no such fruit .it must be jackfruit/kathal bla bla bla. Thanks for bringing this up let me confront them now 😀
In one of my episodes. I went to the garden where the first breadfruit was brought to Jamaica by Captain Bligh. There are still breadfruit trees there! I think it was this one: ua-cam.com/video/7S3ezFRF_v4/v-deo.html
@@WeirdExplorer thanks.BTW when you were in india you tried myrica berries of nagaland origin(North East India).we have a variety of myrica esculenta/kaaphal of kumaon region in Uttarakhand state of India as well.
That is funny, I am American and also first heard about breadfruit when reading "Mutiny Onboard the HMS Bounty" sometime around 1994. I became slightly obsessed with breadfruit and asked my parents about it. They didn't know what breadfruit was either.
Jack fruit is not bread fruit, though they are closely related, they taste entirely different. It's a staple in the Caribbean islands. P. S. I also thoroughly enjoyed reading the "Bounty" as a youngster.
I just want to say, that roasting the breadfruit is an established way of cooking this fruit. In the olden days that was one of the methods used, after which is was sliced and fried or cooked further in coconut milk. You were quite right with your roasted method!
Great job with all ways of cooking the breadfruit, but I think it's the Jamaican recipe for the win. My coworker once brought in a Jamaican breadfruit recipe that included I think Cod or some kind of salted fish with ackee which was amazing👌👍
In Trinidad and Tobago we roast breadfruit over wood fire outside. We also do oil down which is like run down with the coconut and meat which is awesome, also fried. I like your fried recipe with the batter. 👍👍
I prefer fry it. slice it like you slice watermelon, add some salt into the water, and you can get the breadfruit into it then fry it. Its delicious. Or you can slice it thin, add some salt, then fry it until crispy. Believe me it's delicious.
Another great way is (oil down) where u quarter it then u put it in a pot with coconut milk to fully cover it, pigtails(boil out the salt), green seasoning(pimento pepper,celery,chive,oregano,basil, onion powder, garlic powder, salt to taste) a small piece of golden ray cook it breadfruit it done and most of the liquid has reduced. Trinidad and Tobago(oil down)... U can use powered coconut milk or the actual coconut crscked grated and squeezed but enough milk to cover the breadfruit.
Hi, great video, however the way you prepare it depends on the stage the fruit is in. The ones you have with the dark spots just before becoming ripe are great roasted or fried, (roasted then fried is awesome) ^^ and have a bread like texture (if this one is boiled it has a more sweetish taste). Fully green, is better boiled more firm and potato like after boiling, and ripe is crushed and used in various pastry and baking.
@@injunsun hi, if you wish to pound it into a paste and make a sweet flour or pastry then soft is good, when it gets soft it loses its bread like texture and taste which is just before that, 1st. Early in its stage at full green color and full sized it is more like a potato, peel it cut out the center and boil it, use it similarly. 2. As it matures and starts to have dark spots and the spikes start to smooth out a bit, but still very firm, it is more airy and bread like and is great roasted (becomes a very breadlike hence breadfruit) not sweet or it cane be fried, or roasted then fried (one of my favorite if I don’t have it hot off the fire lol) instead of roasting baking can work too, just endure to make deep cuts in the top and bottom in an X form to allow steam to exit and cook thoroughly. 3rd. Is the ripened stage which becomes sweet, like a dough mixed with sugar, water and some starch. I haven’t much experience using this stage. Ty
Aqui no Brasil , nordeste cozinho com água e sal...descasco e viryo em cubos pequenos..faço um molho com leite de coco (que usamos em munqueca ) adicionamos aos cubos , deixa ferver e está pronto. Delicioso!!
I love breadfruit. I have one tree on my land here in Puerto Rico. The other one was ripped off by hurricane Fiona. You can also use this vegetable to make "potato salad". The only thing is instead of using potatoes you use bread fruit. You boil it the way you normally do in salt water and then you add everything else you would add as if you were making a potato salad it tastes so good. Yes, mayonnaise and all.
Jamaicans roast it on a stove, just like you did. Often eaten with ackee and saltfish, the national dish. Absolutely yummy! Hot roasted breadfruit with some butter melted on it is great.
I think it was the thumbnail that made that video viral. I thought it was a fruit that looked and prepared exactly like bread. Its also what got me into the channel. UA-cam is weird
@@WeirdExplorer My experience with UA-cam is thumbnail is very important but needs to be just right, can't overdue it. Needs that "huh, interesting" hit
I do the breadfruit in the pressure cooker, or and microwave and it comes out as if it was done on the cold stove, or gas stove or in the oven. I eat it dipped in salt and coconut oil Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲
I love coming back to this channel, I used to binge-watch all your older videos. Now it's much harder due to work, but now I get a whole bunch of videos to catch up to and binge again😊
I am a Trinbagonian and we cook breadfruit oildown with pigtails all the time, it is a favorite in my country or boiled then fried as a snack, breadfruit chips is another snack.
I need to get my hands on one of these at some point. A Polynesian dish is to make homemade coconut milk by shaving a fresh coconut and squeezing in husk, bake the breadfruit, and dip on milk
Small suggestion, use a roasting bag you buy at the store meant to be used in the oven to roast poultry, etc. Would be a safer alternative for microwaving a breadfruit than any old plastic bag. Great video!
Breadfruit is mild on its own. Like potato or other starchy foods, it can be paired with flavorful stews or gravies. In Jamaica there is also breadfruit chips. You should try green plantain chips as well, very yummy.
This is amazing! I grew up eating breadfruit just one way and never even imagined that there were other options. We essentially ate it dried out and toasted. It was literally a substitute for bread. The advantage was that unlike ordinary bread, it would NOT sop up all the juices from other foods on your plate.
You should make a video about trying fruits off of the blue candle cactus. I hear its fruit tastes and looks like blueberries. Because of that it's nicknamed the blueberry cactus. I'm actually planning on buying these cacti to grow and eat it's fruits.
Roasted breadfruit is definitely a thing. In the Caribbean we do it outside on a fireside, coal pot or BBQ pit. The stove was a great way to improvise.
At the Caribbean, we prepared mostly doble Fryed. You can search it like: "tostones de pana' or in dessert like: " Flan de pana" or with fish: pana con bacalao.
The Gentleman wasn't teaching Caribbean people how to prepare he was introducing BREADFRUIT to people who see it and Don t know what to do with it , it can be used in many ways Chips r great thanks u.
I'm from the Caribbean. Grenada to be exact. The most popular breadfruit dish here is oil down. The breadfruit is steamed down in coconut milk with different types of meat, and sometimes other ground provisions. It is seasoned with turmeric, curry, seasoning peppers, thyme, onions, garlic and other herbs. Some add flour or cornmeal dumplings to it. And the pot is covered with calalloo (dashes leaves). It is called oil down because when the breadfruit and other provisions are cooked it is steamed down to one of the most tasty dishes on the planet. It's the national dish here and visitors always request to try it.
I live in Trinidad 🇹🇹 and there are lots of breadfruit trees here There are lots of ways to prepare breadfruit which is so delicious btw There is a saying "If you have a breadfruit tree in your yard you have food for life"
@@bobwobbabble5151 I have a guava tree in front of my house... we get a lot of "May I?" with a telling look to the tree... and the occasional time when it seems a tree that gives children rather than fruit. Funny way to know neighbors, and apparently guava leaves tea aleviates the nausea when you're dealing with dengue fever.
Hi, I happened to watch your video. I live in Mangalore, South India, I have been cooking breadfruit for ages now. The correct way to handle a breadfruit is : Wash the breadfruit well. Cut it into wedges. Peel them with a fruit peeler or a knife. Drop the peeled slices in water, adding just a teaspoon of vinegar to prevent discoloration. Cut off the core, (drain). If you are shallow or deep frying them slice them lengthwise, apply some curry powder (in Mangalore we have the local BAFATH POWDER which is versatile n can be used for veggies, fish n meat). Just fry them straight away after 15 mins OR may be dipped in gram flour batter n then fried - tastes yummy. For a side dish - cube the wedges. 1. Just boil the breadfruit cubes with a small sliced onion, 1 tomato chopped 1 - 2 sliced green chillies (depending on your spice tolerance), salt to taste, adding some water to cook, drizzle 1 -2 tablespoons of coconut oil. When almost done garnish with 2 tablespoons of preferably freshly grated coconut (or desicated coconut). 2. Instead of adding green chillies, add abt 1 - 2 teaspoons of Bafat powder or any mild curry powder of your choice. Temper with 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds, 3 - 4 crushed garlic cloves, 1 sprig fresh curry leaves (may skip if not available), in 2 tablespoon of oil, coconut oil preferably. (Do not drizzle coconut oil like in previous recipe). Finally garnish with 2 tablespoons of freshly grated coconut (or desicated coconut). Bread fruit takes hardly 6 - 8 minutes to cook. Check if done by piercing with a toothpick. (do not overcook breadfruit) Besides this, breadfruit can be added to various curries - in shrimp curry, mutton curry etc. - tastes yummy The breadfruit for above recipes should just be ready to ripe, but not fully ripe. In our language here, we call it 'ZOON'.
Congrats on the move!! Lots of cool things going on for y'all, very happy for you! :) Breadfruit looks seriously neat, it would be awesome to have a staple crop growing on a *tree*, that's some good food security shit. Also, the montage of all the other folks cooking it on the stove was hilarious!
Roast breadfruit is a real thing. We do it in Trinidad and yes we do roast it on the stove top, oven or an out door fire. For the ripe breadfruit it is lovely if you roast it first.You can also fry the ripe breadfruit after you roast it....my favorite way as a child growing up 🙂
I am a Jamaican and live here in Jamaica. We eat a lot of Breadfruit, roasted, boiled, fried, mash Breadfruit, making Breadfruit pudding and making Breadfruit Punch. Here in Jamaica, there is nothing wrong with roasting Breadfruit on your stove top.
i like this. Its nice to see fruits being prepared in ncooking then simply saying that the breadfruit tastes like kukamunja, and if you dont know what Kukamunja is.. then it tastes like madooki dooki.
Here in T'dad we take a full breadfruit and peel it and cut it into not so small pieces then wash it thoroughly place it in a pot with coconut milk to boil 😋 add salt and any green seasoning to taste,boil until soft...we call it oil down over here that's the local name and it taste very delicious.
You finally did it (pana/ breadfruit) justice. Glad you enjoyed it. Here (P.R.) it is a staple food. We eat it at home at least once a week. We enjoy it fried (no batter, just the thin pana chips) or as "tostones de pana" and boiled. My favorite "lazy" dinner is boiled pana and an entire avocado with toasted garlic bread on the side for the crunch.
Jamaicans favorite, we roast breadfruit on stove top , wood fire etc. We also like to boil, fry the roasted breadfruit, use it to make drinks when it's ripe it's very versatile like you said similar to potato, you can make fries & mashed.
@@jaempress4697 he was just joking, he was showing other videos of people roasting it when he said that, I only said it so the persons who thought it's not a thing to roast breadfruit on stove top.
My favorite way to make breadfruit is to make tostones; basically you cut it in thick slices, fry them, smash them and fry them again. Really crispy and delicious
As a 20 yr old i traveled to NZ, on the way back i landed in Tahiti for 3 days and met a California shipwrecked sailor and his Tahitian wife, and they cooked breadfruit for me exactly the way you did except it was over a charcoal fire turned regularly as to burn the skin, pealed sliced and buttered like bread, amazing, loved it. cheers
The breadfruit punch is amazing you can boil it put in the blender with milk, stout, suppligen, vanilla and a sweetner of your choice. You can also use the ripe ones too. Believe me it's an amazing drink nuff love from Jamaica 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Am Jamaican and i roast it on the stove all the time, i have roasted four in the oven also bit most Jamaican do it outdoors on a wood or coal fire(just to save their gas) roasting is best when it is almost ripe... boiling is best in soup and younger breadfruit is used. We jamaicans never eat it raw.
Great Video and way too go back and try the new preparations. For someone like me whose only been following you for 2 and a half years I missed a lot of early video/couldn't go back and watch all of them. So I appreciate this type of video, Keep it up Fruit Guy.
That pepper curry dish looked wonderful. When I first moved to Hawaii my neighbor created a dessert dish with Ulu ( breadfruit). She cut a wedge out, scooped out the center seeds and lightly sprinkled cinnamon, added brown sugar, and put in about 2 Tbls. of butter. The wedge was placed back and the whole fruit was wrapped in foil. Bake at 330 to 350 for about 2 hours. The result was almost a thick pudding like dessert. You do have to have ripe fruit for this. I've also had it steamed, tempura fried, mixed with pumpkin and taro and baked in a pan. Besides the dessert my next favorite is baked in an imu ( earthen oven with Kiawe wood and stones and banana trunk).
There is a wild ancestor of the breadfruit that is usually sought after for its seeds. The skin is kinda like the jackfruit in the shape and size of a breadfruit. Its called Breadnut or locally known here in the Philippines as Kamansi. Its delicious. Usually eaten as a snack together with some freshly brewed robusta coffee.
The French settlers introduced this fruit to the Caribbean. In Trinidad it is called chatagine. The seeds of the ripe fruit can be roasted on hot coals, or boiled in salted water. Either way, it makes a delicious snack. The mature unripe fruit can also be made into a wonderful coconut curry dish, usually eaten with roti.
First rule while cutting ,apply some cooking oil on the knife and your hands so the cream glue which comes out while cutting does not stick to your hands and knife 😀
I usually prepare a fresh breadfruit curry with milder green chilies, curry leaves and coconut milk to enjoy with fragrant basmati rice, whenever I am pleasantly surprised at a grocery store. Just subscribed to your videos. So glad I discovered it. Thanks 😊
1. Oven roasting for 1.5 hours uses a lot of energy. 2. "Run down" actually comes from the Indonesian word "Rendang". 3. In Jamaica we often roast it on a fire, and then fry the leftover breadfruit for breakfast the next day. 4. I am familiar with 2 types, yellow heart and white heart, yellow tastes much better. 5. Most Jamaicans don't know that breadfruit is not actually Jamaican-- it got there from Tahiti.
Hi I am from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹. Here we cook the bread fruit in many ways. One way is what we call steam down were we cook in in coconut milk pig tail and dashen bush, or bake it or fry it like chips or even roast it
Loves "interacting" in your videos, but I mostly like to comment positive things on here lol I'll never try this in all likelihood, but it's interesting to watch you try to cook this fruit.
Boiled with seasonings, pepper,coconut milk..is a must...then build and fried..is just as great...a very tasty and healthy vege.yum yum...thank for highlighting it❤️
Malaysian here: another word for the breadfruit besides "sukun" (you pronounced "sukun goreng" very well 👍) is "kulur". "Kulur" is actually related to the Hawaiian word "ulu" at 1:08 - both Malay and Hawaiian are related languages spoken by Austronesian peoples who migrated from Taiwan to SE Asia to Oceania for centuries which also spread their essential crops including breadfruit - anthropologists know this as the "Austronesian expansion" .
Aw! Good grief! Whatta you mean you can't roast a breadfruit on the stove flame?!? I watched an old Grannie from Jamaica do it that way and it looked freakin' delicious--and cooked! It's the same as a campfire!
In Seychelles we grill and cook boring with suger, and we cooked with coconut milk suger, vanilla, you must pass your spoon 🥣 in it erve 5minit for 30minit,
Some of my first memories in the early 50s was eating pounded breadfruit after being boiled on truk, now known as chuuk. Big lump of dough that was eaten with two fingers digging out a lump of it and dipping it in soy sauce with a bit of lemon. Absolutely loved the stuff. Later on when moved to yap I continued to eat it as often as I could. Mom baked it and served it like potatoes. She also would thinly slice it and cook it in a pan with melted sugar. What a treat for us kids without much sweets at all. Islander would still boil or bake them similar to cooking in the ground. Havnt had it in over 50 years and miss it terribly.
First time seeing breadfruit fry like that. Interesting may try it. Hear we roast, refrigerate for a or more then fry in oil/butter without any breading. Never add any sugar.
Mainly commenting to appease the almighty algorithm! I'm pretty sure by now I've seen just about every episode you've done (except for the one posted today of course) at least three times by now, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching them. I've become quite the fruit fan thanks to your videos, and I've also become quite the adventurous eater these days too!
Bruh, so in a project ive had to research a lot of fruits I've never heard of and literally you've covered everyone of them, in great detail, and obviously, today, im researching breadfruit, you da man playa
I’ve heard that young unripe breadfruit can be preserved to taste like marinaded artichoke hearts. I would try that… The thing is I can’t find a recipe. I know you’re not the recipe guy but fruit preserved to taste like artichoke hearts? I’d watch that. Also Breadfruit makes a better-than potato, Potato salad. Just diced and boiled like a potato use your favorite potato salad recipe. Not only does breadfruit taste better than a potatoes the texture holds up surprisingly well. I was mid tossing some into the compost after 5 days ( I quit eating it after three) when my husband insisted I not so he could eat it for lunch. Against my better judgment I allowed it to live another day. I tentatively gave a small bit a try to see if the breadfruit had gone mushy. The texture was the same as the day I made it. Not bad for a fruit. One more thing… fermenting bread fruit. It’s said that in bygone days breadfruit was wrapped in banana leaves, buried and left to ferment. It’s difficult to find any real instructions on how-to. And I’ve found absolutely nothing on flavor or how fermented breadfruit is used in a meal. While I don’t see you attempting to do this in your apartment, I did just watch you get engaged. Should you decide to take your bride to Kauai on your honeymoon/job-related tax write-off I’d happily volunteer our yard for a test-lab! I read that it needed to ferment for 17 days minimum so you might want to visit some other islands while it does it’s magic! LOL! Love the show!
In Goa in India, we peel the outer green covering , then we cut thin slices of the bread fruit (it should be a little thicker than a wafer) . Then add some salt for taste and chilli powder and mix. Wait for a few minutes then pan fry the bread fruit. It is yummy to eat and once you start eating fried bread fruit you will not be able to stop.
My boyfriend's grandparents used to cook breadfruit a lot back from where he comes from, Mauritius. It's legit a power food. I like it best boiled with a lil bit of butter on it and also in a curry or fried like chips. Delicious.
In Jamaica we roast breadfruit on the gas stove and directly in the fire all the time. It's gives the breadfruit a yummy smokey flavor. We also boil the breadfruit in soups similar to potatoes. After roasting the breadfruit we sometimes fry it as well.
👋HI! I just found your channel by chance.. In Trinidad.. bread fruit is a versatile vegetable & cooked in a variety of ways.. boiled & fried.. Oil down (oil dung) Shepherd's Pie Breadfruit chips Curried breadfruit Stuffed in roti ( like dalpuri) Breadfruit & Dumplings soup 🍲 & Stuffed breadfruit like "aloo" pies Thank you for sharing your ways of cooking this delicious vegetable..It is also roasted on the stove top & in an open fire in the yard..
I have lived near breadfruit most of my life. Never seen it roasted like you showed. Why would people say it wrong annoys me. You can cook your food however you want. There are many ways to cook it and tons of different recipes. Labelling something "right" or "wrong" because they don't do it or like it says a lot of the people behind. the opinion.... Some Jamaican people appear commenting they like it roasted! I am thankful I found your channel and that you referenced your video. I will gladly try new methods of cooking breadfruit I had not tried before.
I have eaten Breadfruit boiled, fried and baked. However, the best way is to make it and eat is as a breadfruit flan. For the flan you want to boil it and blender it and then combine it with the rest of ingredients of a regular flan. Also I recommend it green and not ripe (for the flan). My mother also makes rellenos de panapén. Which is another version of the Puerto Rican, rellenos de papa. Try it. Simply amazing. For the boiled breadfruit, you might want to add EVOO and some salt and pepper. That's how I would eat it when I lived by myself in Puerto Rico.
Oh yes I am from the Northern part of the Cook island. Call Rakahanga we do roast our breadfruit.After when it cook peel the skin mash wish coconutcream and roll it in a foil and put of sugar to your taste.Thank you for sharing.
You can make breadfruit cheese casserole. Mix cooked, cubed breadfruit with a can of mixed vegetables and bechamel sauce. Put in a casserole dish. Cover the top with shredded cheese and breadcrumbs. Cook until bubbly and browned on top.
So if ur boiling breadfruit, please cut it up in halves first, remove the breadfruit heart( woodsy middle) before peeling, that makes it way easier and safer to handle.
In Puerto Rico we eat it boiled along with boiled cod fish. The cod fish is prepared with oil, onions, red or green bell peppers and some white vinegar. And don't forget a slice of avocado 🥑🥑🥑 yummy!
I’m Jamaican and breadfruits are kind of one of the staple foods we never eat ripe bread fruits we tossed them right before they start ripping we roast them but cooking when it’s in the middle before they are ready for roasting I love my boil bread fruit with curry chicken
Of course you are right roasting breadfruit on the stove is an awesome way to prepare breadfruit. We do so in the Caribbean. When it is finished roasting just wrap with paper towel and wet it. Before peeling . Or you can put it in your owen and bake it.
I just found you and appreciate what you do because I've done the same on a much smaller scale. I've always loved going around neighborhoods to find fruit trees to pick from. Here in Denver, you can find peaches (mostly small peaches, but I've also seen those massive softball sized peaches that are very good), apricots, italian plums (my granny had a tree in her backyard, great plums), small pears, different types of crab apples, grapes, and chokecherries. When we used to eat mushrooms, we'd go pick fruits haha. Any time I see new fruits at natural grocers or whole foods, I try them. I've wanted to try paw paws, and bread fruit for a very long time. The one I've really wanted to try is chocolate pudding fruit, which I still haven't had the chance to try. Hope one day. I really didn't like chokecherry at first, but quickly started loving them. The nice big ripe ones are amazing. That dry taste to them is part of the specialty. I've even made a batch of wine from them. There's a park in Denver that has a bunch of chokecherry bushes around the edge that had massive quantities of fruits, but for some reason, the city started removing some of them, and trimming the bushes to the point where they don't fruit much. My buddy's grandma planted a weird fruit tree in their backyard that I still havent figured out what it was. It grew these tiny red berries that tasted like raspberry, but they didn't blundle. They were like raspberry, but just single little berries. Very good, though.
I am from the Caribbean and You can roast it on the stove, on a wood fire or in the oven. You can make breadfruit chips, mash it like cream potatoes, make breadfruit salad. Scallop breadfruit with codfish and cheese pie. Breadfruit cakes. In the Caribbean the recipes for breadfruit are endless.
We cook it many different ways too. - Cook over the fire (similar to cooking over stove but over open fire instead). With this method you cook it until its burnt all over, then peel off the skin then pound it until its very soft and gooey. You break it into pieces and dip it in coconut cream which has been caramalised with burnt sugar. - Another method is cook in tradition earth oven (we call it umu) - Another, cook like a potato and make a stew with tinned corn beef (this is one of my favourites)
How would you like your breadfruit?
A. Boiled
B. Fried
C. Microwaved
D. Baked
E. Stewed in a Curry
Ketchupped
Some palm tree oil / Azeite de Dendê would go well on that stew 🤤
Roasted on a stove
sat on
I say fried like French fries 🍟
The stove isn’t ‘wrong’ in Jamaica a common way we cook them is in the fire flames touching, it causes the flesh to come off with more of a soft toasted bread texture when done right which readily soaks up sauces and gravy’s just like bread but holds it way better. When people moved from the farm to more of a city life it was common for people to do the stove method seeing that an open pit fire wasn’t an option.
Right! that's how I do it, that or bake it. He can also wrap it in aluminum foil when roasting it on the stove to prevent all the excessive charring and make for an easier clean-up.
@@nareegreel yup lol although I missed the family trip this year I def enjoyed cooking with all the allspice I could grind lol and other Jamaican goods lol but gonna have to wait to get me some deep fried bread fruit lol
Thanks for clarifying the real deal.
You're right. Roasting breadfruit is common in the Caribbean.
In Haiti too
The montage of nobody cooking a breadfruit that way was a nice touch.
I just stumbled across your video on roasting breadfruit on a stove or fireside. For the people that told you no one has ever done this in history is wrong. I'm from Trinidad and Tobago and my dad used to do this all the time, apart from boiling and stewing it with cod fish, tomatoes and onion, and dont forget the hot peppers. So your not wrong to have done it. Cheers!
I am from Trinidad and Tobago and we also cook it in coconut milk and pig tail we also roast on the stove
Thank you..
I roast on stove all the time..
I came here to see if someone commented about him saying that because that's the way I foast mine too.
@@junebanfield5933 please tell this man he cannot teeach anybody from the. Caribbean about breakfast....and as to roasting on the stove ,he is just learning ....so stop making it look like breakfast is a secret thing.... this thing is all over the Caribbean.....I think people are laughing at him
This man is a liar and I am calling him out. I am from Dominica in the west indies and there's nothing indigenous about bread lol ...come again pal just stop you nonsense
You have done a good job with roasting the breadfruit on top of the stove. My mother used to do this in Jamaica over 12 yrs ago. Nothing wrong with this method, except maybe wrapping the breadfruit in silver foil first...😋🌮 Try eating with ackee & saltfish.. fantastic..
This is now on the bucket list
As a Malaysian I love breadfruit cooked in coconut milk,palm sugar+pandan leaf kinda like sweet/porridge dessert 😋 usually we cooked in the evening for tea time
Also deep fried breadfruit dip in cooked spicy chilli paste+palm sugar+shrimp paste+vinegar
U can find fried breadfruit in the stall here in Malaysia usually beside road also it’s pretty common
YUM
Sounds great
@@renaottley4527 yes it is! U should google the recipe 🤣
@@deidradahl2802 😋
Am from the Caribbean and I’ve cooked Breadfruit on the stove top and in the oven over many years. Peeling and boiling a breadfruit is not the only cooking method trust me. A half ripped breadfruit baked is very tasty.
Very tasty! I roast my breadfruit on the stove top wrapped in foil paper. It can also be baked in the microwave. I am from Jamaica and breadfruit is a staple in most household.
I'm jamaican and roasting it on the stove is something we do but mostly on wildfire. And oddly we fried it afterwards but sometimes we have it just roasted.
Freshly roasted breadfruit isn't usually fried afterwards. If it's left overnight or longer, then it's often fried.
This is how it is done in Jamaica on the stove to or in an open flame on the coal (charcoal) stove. For those who do not want to tolerate the blackness from the char, they wrapped it in aluminum foil and roast it in the oven. Jamaicans do roast then fry breadfruit. The over-ripped breadfruit I used to make Breadfruit Fritters. The boiled breadfruit can be also used to make Breadfruit Salad or Breadfruit Punch. One love from Jamaica 🇯🇲
I only ate breadfruit once. It was dead ripe (brownish-black). The texture was very soft to slimey. The taste was wonderful, kind of a banana pineapple pudding flavor.
I understand the custom in Polynesia was to plant a breadfruit when. Child was born to assure they would always have food
In most Caribbean countries, breadfruit can be roasted on the stove top or in an out door wood fire. In Barbados, we peel it, boil it with herbs and salted pork/pigtail and butter, mash it and serve as breadfruit coucou. It is wonderful with fried or boiled fish, beef stew etc. with a side of pickled cucumber. There is really no wrong way to eat a breadfruit.
Girl I'm in Bim and I'm always doing it on the stove lol. My husband keeps asking me why I don't just boil it. Just found out they can be eaten raw when ripe and sappy too.
Eventhough this fruit originated in my country region, this fruit not really popular here.. Me myself never try it, since it only can be found in jungle not many people plant or sale this fruit😅.. Does it taste good?
@@Daniel_0778 It's delicious when prepared properly. It's flavour can vary from sweet to bland, but it is versatile in how it can be used and it is an excellent vehicle for other flavours.
Roasting A ripe breadfruit on the stove is quite a normal thing we do in Trinidad and other parts of the Caribbean. It gives the breadfruit A sweet smokey taste that can be then mashed with salt butter, milk & cheese if u want (kinda like creamy mashed potatoes). I guess if they didn't know then they shouldn't tell you ur wrong and try to learn a new dish. 🥰
Truly amazing how much you’ve grown as a youtuber. I started watching you back almost 10 years ago randomly stumbling upon your channel because of my high interest in exotic fruits. I’m glad I’ve stayed updated with your channel as it’s amazing to see your growth and success both as a person and a creator.
In Jamaica we roast breadfruit on stove top, baked in oven and also in wood fire. We have two types of breadfruit (boiling breadfruit which we used in soups or just boiled with ground provisions and roasting breadfruit which we roast and eat it like bread or roast then fried with a little salt. Most Jamaicans know the difference between a boiling breadfruit and a roasting breadfruit when picked off the tree.
Eaten with cooked ackees and saltfish and avocado/ pears when in season is a favourite Jamaica 🇯🇲 dish
@Sade Jones yes it can prepare that way too.
Talk truth u cnt get it any better
Just stumbled on this video and as a Jamaican, I agree we cook it in soups, biol it as ground provision like a potato, we also roast it on the stove top, wood fire or in the Oven.
@Sade Jones will try it.
In Cebu, Philippines, we call breadfruit as colo/kolo and we used to have the tree growing in our backyard and we usually ate it boiled and sprinkled with a bit of sugar. It's like free snacks. So sad that the tree got knocked out by a supertyphoon a few months ago.
I first heard of this fruit when I read "mutiny on board HMS Bounty" in the year 1994.
I asked elders what is breadfruit do we have any hindi name for this and all I got was there is no such fruit .it must be jackfruit/kathal bla bla bla.
Thanks for bringing this up let me confront them now 😀
In one of my episodes. I went to the garden where the first breadfruit was brought to Jamaica by Captain Bligh. There are still breadfruit trees there! I think it was this one: ua-cam.com/video/7S3ezFRF_v4/v-deo.html
@@WeirdExplorer thanks.BTW when you were in india you tried myrica berries of nagaland origin(North East India).we have a variety of myrica esculenta/kaaphal of kumaon region in Uttarakhand state of India as well.
That is funny, I am American and also first heard about breadfruit when reading "Mutiny Onboard the HMS Bounty" sometime around 1994. I became slightly obsessed with breadfruit and asked my parents about it. They didn't know what breadfruit was either.
Jack fruit is not bread fruit, though they are closely related, they taste entirely different. It's a staple in the Caribbean islands. P. S. I also thoroughly enjoyed reading the "Bounty" as a youngster.
@@MC-yt1uv we both were reading same book about same time maybe but in two different worlds .
That's a nice coincidence. 👌
I just want to say, that roasting the breadfruit is an established way of cooking this fruit. In the olden days that was one of the methods used, after which is was sliced and fried or cooked further in coconut milk. You were quite right with your roasted method!
Great job with all ways of cooking the breadfruit, but I think it's the Jamaican recipe for the win. My coworker once brought in a Jamaican breadfruit recipe that included I think Cod or some kind of salted fish with ackee which was amazing👌👍
@Dan T: It was definitely cod. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackee_and_saltfish
Oh! I haven't had that in years, abuela used to make it when I was a kid... now I'm salivating with no way to quench this craving.
Right dah so
Ackee with salt fish is Jamaica’s national dish.
In Trinidad and Tobago we roast breadfruit over wood fire outside. We also do oil down which is like run down with the coconut and meat which is awesome, also fried. I like your fried recipe with the batter. 👍👍
I prefer fry it. slice it like you slice watermelon, add some salt into the water, and you can get the breadfruit into it then fry it. Its delicious.
Or you can slice it thin, add some salt, then fry it until crispy. Believe me it's delicious.
Sounds great!
Another great way is (oil down) where u quarter it then u put it in a pot with coconut milk to fully cover it, pigtails(boil out the salt), green seasoning(pimento pepper,celery,chive,oregano,basil, onion powder, garlic powder, salt to taste) a small piece of golden ray cook it breadfruit it done and most of the liquid has reduced. Trinidad and Tobago(oil down)... U can use powered coconut milk or the actual coconut crscked grated and squeezed but enough milk to cover the breadfruit.
Hi, great video, however the way you prepare it depends on the stage the fruit is in.
The ones you have with the dark spots just before becoming ripe are great roasted or fried, (roasted then fried is awesome) ^^ and have a bread like texture (if this one is boiled it has a more sweetish taste). Fully green, is better boiled more firm and potato like after boiling, and ripe is crushed and used in various pastry and baking.
So, like an avocado, older, darker, softer is better?
@@injunsun hi, if you wish to pound it into a paste and make a sweet flour or pastry then soft is good, when it gets soft it loses its bread like texture and taste which is just before that,
1st. Early in its stage at full green color and full sized it is more like a potato, peel it cut out the center and boil it, use it similarly.
2. As it matures and starts to have dark spots and the spikes start to smooth out a bit, but still very firm, it is more airy and bread like and is great roasted (becomes a very breadlike hence breadfruit) not sweet or it cane be fried, or roasted then fried (one of my favorite if I don’t have it hot off the fire lol) instead of roasting baking can work too, just endure to make deep cuts in the top and bottom in an X form to allow steam to exit and cook thoroughly.
3rd. Is the ripened stage which becomes sweet, like a dough mixed with sugar, water and some starch. I haven’t much experience using this stage.
Ty
Aqui no Brasil , nordeste cozinho com água e sal...descasco e viryo em cubos pequenos..faço um molho com leite de coco (que usamos em munqueca ) adicionamos aos cubos , deixa ferver e está pronto. Delicioso!!
Thank you for letting me know how to use certain breadfruit for certain dishes. I have never eaten one. I will try to find breadfruit.
I love breadfruit. I have one tree on my land here in Puerto Rico. The other one was ripped off by hurricane Fiona. You can also use this vegetable to make "potato salad". The only thing is instead of using potatoes you use bread fruit. You boil it the way you normally do in salt water and then you add everything else you would add as if you were making a potato salad it tastes so good. Yes, mayonnaise and all.
yumm
At the risk of repeating myself, I love your cooking episodes!
They take a while to make, but they are so fun!
It's interaction so you're good!
@@WeirdExplorer-- I am from the Caribbean, we roast breadfruit, on the stove, or using wood, or coal or, bake in the oven, the result is the same
@@deidradahl2802 there you go I am Guyanese 🇬🇾
--@@Yutsekelman Hi bro. lots of love
Jamaicans roast it on a stove, just like you did. Often eaten with ackee and saltfish, the national dish. Absolutely yummy! Hot roasted breadfruit with some butter melted on it is great.
I think it was the thumbnail that made that video viral. I thought it was a fruit that looked and prepared exactly like bread. Its also what got me into the channel. UA-cam is weird
I remember clicking on it because it looked like bread lol
Interesting! I should replace the thumbnail with a picture of a loaf of wonderbread
@@WeirdExplorer My experience with UA-cam is thumbnail is very important but needs to be just right, can't overdue it. Needs that "huh, interesting" hit
I clicked it because I wasn't sure what breadfruit was :)
@@WeirdExplorer I probably wouldn’t listen to verlisify… he’s a massive click baiter and his reputation in his own community is… less than favorable
I do the breadfruit in the pressure cooker, or and microwave and it comes out as if it was done on the cold stove, or gas stove or in the oven. I eat it dipped in salt and coconut oil Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲
Pressure cooker?!
I love coming back to this channel, I used to binge-watch all your older videos. Now it's much harder due to work, but now I get a whole bunch of videos to catch up to and binge again😊
No one eat raw breadfruit ifs better fry
I am a Trinbagonian and we cook breadfruit oildown with pigtails all the time, it is a favorite in my country or boiled then fried as a snack, breadfruit chips is another snack.
I need to get my hands on one of these at some point. A Polynesian dish is to make homemade coconut milk by shaving a fresh coconut and squeezing in husk, bake the breadfruit, and dip on milk
You can boil it in coconut milk. Add sugar if you want.
You watch Kap Teo-Tafiti at the Polynesian cultural center?
@@joshw.2739 Love that guy! Makes me wanna learn how to husk a coconut with my teeth lol
@@joshw.2739 toa luau
Sounds yummy!
Small suggestion, use a roasting bag you buy at the store meant to be used in the oven to roast poultry, etc. Would be a safer alternative for microwaving a breadfruit than any old plastic bag. Great video!
Breadfruit is mild on its own. Like potato or other starchy foods, it can be paired with flavorful stews or gravies. In Jamaica there is also breadfruit chips. You should try green plantain chips as well, very yummy.
This is amazing! I grew up eating breadfruit just one way and never even imagined that there were other options. We essentially ate it dried out and toasted. It was literally a substitute for bread. The advantage was that unlike ordinary bread, it would NOT sop up all the juices from other foods on your plate.
You should make a video about trying fruits off of the blue candle cactus. I hear its fruit tastes and looks like blueberries. Because of that it's nicknamed the blueberry cactus. I'm actually planning on buying these cacti to grow and eat it's fruits.
Roasted breadfruit is definitely a thing. In the Caribbean we do it outside on a fireside, coal pot or BBQ pit. The stove was a great way to improvise.
At the Caribbean, we prepared mostly doble Fryed. You can search it like: "tostones de pana' or in dessert like: " Flan de pana" or with fish: pana con bacalao.
The Gentleman wasn't teaching Caribbean people how to prepare he was introducing BREADFRUIT to people who see it and Don t know what to do with it , it can be used in many ways Chips r great thanks u.
I'm from the Caribbean. Grenada to be exact. The most popular breadfruit dish here is oil down. The breadfruit is steamed down in coconut milk with different types of meat, and sometimes other ground provisions. It is seasoned with turmeric, curry, seasoning peppers, thyme, onions, garlic and other herbs. Some add flour or cornmeal dumplings to it. And the pot is covered with calalloo (dashes leaves). It is called oil down because when the breadfruit and other provisions are cooked it is steamed down to one of the most tasty dishes on the planet. It's the national dish here and visitors always request to try it.
I live in Trinidad 🇹🇹 and there are lots of breadfruit trees here
There are lots of ways to prepare breadfruit which is so delicious btw
There is a saying "If you have a breadfruit tree in your yard you have food for life"
And tree pirates.
@@bobwobbabble5151
I have a guava tree in front of my house...
we get a lot of "May I?" with a telling look to the tree... and the occasional time when it seems a tree that gives children rather than fruit.
Funny way to know neighbors, and apparently guava leaves tea aleviates the nausea when you're dealing with dengue fever.
Hi,
I happened to watch your video.
I live in Mangalore, South India, I have been cooking breadfruit for ages now.
The correct way to handle a breadfruit is :
Wash the breadfruit well. Cut it into wedges. Peel them with a fruit peeler or a knife. Drop the peeled slices in water, adding just a teaspoon of vinegar to prevent discoloration. Cut off the core, (drain).
If you are shallow or deep frying them slice them lengthwise, apply some curry powder (in Mangalore we have the local BAFATH POWDER which is versatile n can be used for veggies, fish n meat). Just fry them straight away after 15 mins OR may be dipped in gram flour batter n then fried - tastes yummy.
For a side dish - cube the wedges.
1. Just boil the breadfruit cubes with a small sliced onion, 1 tomato chopped 1 - 2 sliced green chillies (depending on your spice tolerance), salt to taste, adding some water to cook, drizzle 1 -2 tablespoons of coconut oil. When almost done garnish with 2 tablespoons of preferably freshly grated coconut (or desicated coconut).
2. Instead of adding green chillies, add abt 1 - 2 teaspoons of Bafat powder or any mild curry powder of your choice. Temper with 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds, 3 - 4 crushed garlic cloves, 1 sprig fresh curry leaves (may skip if not available), in 2 tablespoon of oil, coconut oil preferably.
(Do not drizzle coconut oil like in previous recipe). Finally garnish with 2 tablespoons of freshly grated coconut (or desicated coconut).
Bread fruit takes hardly 6 - 8 minutes to cook. Check if done by piercing with a toothpick. (do not overcook breadfruit)
Besides this, breadfruit can be added to various curries - in shrimp curry, mutton curry etc. - tastes yummy
The breadfruit for above recipes should just be ready to ripe, but not fully ripe. In our language here, we call it 'ZOON'.
Congrats on the move!! Lots of cool things going on for y'all, very happy for you! :) Breadfruit looks seriously neat, it would be awesome to have a staple crop growing on a *tree*, that's some good food security shit. Also, the montage of all the other folks cooking it on the stove was hilarious!
I have been in this planet for 74 years I have never thought it was a different way to cook a breadfruit thank you so much for the lesson
Congrats on the move! (I moved last month as well). And seriously, your videos are getting more and more creative.
Also, that crunch...
Roast breadfruit is a real thing. We do it in Trinidad and yes we do roast it on the stove top, oven or an out door fire. For the ripe breadfruit it is lovely if you roast it first.You can also fry the ripe breadfruit after you roast it....my favorite way as a child growing up 🙂
Here in indonesia we cut it really thin than marinade with garlic, salt, and other seasonings, and fried it until crispy, it becomes keripik sukun
I spent like the entire day yesterday trying to remember the name "sukun". thank you for reminding me, now I can sleep at night.
@@rigen97 lol 😂
I am a Jamaican and live here in Jamaica.
We eat a lot of Breadfruit, roasted, boiled, fried, mash Breadfruit,
making Breadfruit pudding and making Breadfruit Punch.
Here in Jamaica, there is nothing wrong with roasting Breadfruit
on your stove top.
i like this. Its nice to see fruits being prepared in ncooking then simply saying that the breadfruit tastes like kukamunja, and if you dont know what Kukamunja is.. then it tastes like madooki dooki.
Here in T'dad we take a full breadfruit and peel it and cut it into not so small pieces then wash it thoroughly place it in a pot with coconut milk to boil 😋 add salt and any green seasoning to taste,boil until soft...we call it oil down over here that's the local name and it taste very delicious.
You finally did it (pana/ breadfruit) justice. Glad you enjoyed it. Here (P.R.) it is a staple food. We eat it at home at least once a week.
We enjoy it fried (no batter, just the thin pana chips) or as "tostones de pana" and boiled.
My favorite "lazy" dinner is boiled pana and an entire avocado with toasted garlic bread on the side for the crunch.
I eat in flan,tostones ,donuts, stew(sancocho)cook with cod,yummy .
Jamaicans favorite, we roast breadfruit on stove top , wood fire etc. We also like to boil, fry the roasted breadfruit, use it to make drinks when it's ripe it's very versatile like you said similar to potato, you can make fries & mashed.
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@@jaempress4697 he was just joking, he was showing other videos of people roasting it when he said that, I only said it so the persons who thought it's not a thing to roast breadfruit on stove top.
My favorite way to make breadfruit is to make tostones; basically you cut it in thick slices, fry them, smash them and fry them again. Really crispy and delicious
We do that with greenish plantains and they're called patacones!
@@junglechick13 yeah with plantain it's the original one, we call it tostones or more commonly just "fritos"
As a 20 yr old i traveled to NZ, on the way back i landed in Tahiti for 3 days and met a California shipwrecked sailor and his Tahitian wife, and they cooked breadfruit for me exactly the way you did except it was over a charcoal fire turned regularly as to burn the skin, pealed sliced and buttered like bread, amazing, loved it. cheers
The breadfruit punch is amazing you can boil it put in the blender with milk, stout, suppligen, vanilla and a sweetner of your choice. You can also use the ripe ones too.
Believe me it's an amazing drink nuff love from Jamaica 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Am Jamaican and i roast it on the stove all the time, i have roasted four in the oven also bit most Jamaican do it outdoors on a wood or coal fire(just to save their gas) roasting is best when it is almost ripe... boiling is best in soup and younger breadfruit is used. We jamaicans never eat it raw.
Great Video and way too go back and try the new preparations. For someone like me whose only been following you for 2 and a half years I missed a lot of early video/couldn't go back and watch all of them. So I appreciate this type of video, Keep it up Fruit Guy.
Awesome! Thank you!
That pepper curry dish looked wonderful. When I first moved to Hawaii my neighbor created a dessert dish with Ulu ( breadfruit). She cut a wedge out, scooped out the center seeds and lightly sprinkled cinnamon, added brown sugar, and put in about 2 Tbls. of butter. The wedge was placed back and the whole fruit was wrapped in foil. Bake at 330 to 350 for about 2 hours. The result was almost a thick pudding like dessert. You do have to have ripe fruit for this.
I've also had it steamed, tempura fried, mixed with pumpkin and taro and baked in a pan. Besides the dessert my next favorite is baked in an imu ( earthen oven with Kiawe wood and stones and banana trunk).
There is a wild ancestor of the breadfruit that is usually sought after for its seeds. The skin is kinda like the jackfruit in the shape and size of a breadfruit. Its called Breadnut or locally known here in the Philippines as Kamansi. Its delicious. Usually eaten as a snack together with some freshly brewed robusta coffee.
We also have both breadfruit and breadnut in my Caribbean island🇩🇲🇩🇲
Breadfruit is roasted on a coal pot
And it is delicious. I also like to fry it in thin slices as you do
Plantain chips. I am Guyanese.
The French settlers introduced this fruit to the Caribbean. In Trinidad it is called chatagine.
The seeds of the ripe fruit can be roasted on hot coals, or boiled in salted water.
Either way, it makes a delicious snack.
The mature unripe fruit can also be made into a wonderful coconut curry dish, usually eaten with roti.
First rule while cutting ,apply some cooking oil on the knife and your hands so the cream glue which comes out while cutting does not stick to your hands and knife 😀
Osage Orange is like that too. I cut one open once and had to use 99% alcohol to get the gunk off the knife.
I'm Indonesian and I do love my breadfruit fried ^^ soak the wedges in water+salt+crushed garlic, then fry. Not a fan of the battered variety.
I usually prepare a fresh breadfruit curry with milder green chilies, curry leaves and coconut milk to enjoy with fragrant basmati rice, whenever I am pleasantly surprised at a grocery store. Just subscribed to your videos. So glad I discovered it. Thanks 😊
1. Oven roasting for 1.5 hours uses a lot of energy. 2. "Run down" actually comes from the Indonesian word "Rendang". 3. In Jamaica we often roast it on a fire, and then fry the leftover breadfruit for breakfast the next day. 4. I am familiar with 2 types, yellow heart and white heart, yellow tastes much better. 5. Most Jamaicans don't know that breadfruit is not actually Jamaican-- it got there from Tahiti.
Hi I am from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹. Here we cook the bread fruit in many ways. One way is what we call steam down were we cook in in coconut milk pig tail and dashen bush, or bake it or fry it like chips or even roast it
Loves "interacting" in your videos, but I mostly like to comment positive things on here lol I'll never try this in all likelihood, but it's interesting to watch you try to cook this fruit.
Ja ik lees het alweer niemand gelooft het ja dat had ik zelf ook het is ook moeilijk uit te leggen ( Wereldbeheersers)
Boiled with seasonings, pepper,coconut milk..is a must...then build and fried..is just as great...a very tasty and healthy vege.yum yum...thank for highlighting it❤️
Malaysian here: another word for the breadfruit besides "sukun" (you pronounced "sukun goreng" very well 👍) is "kulur". "Kulur" is actually related to the Hawaiian word "ulu" at 1:08 - both Malay and Hawaiian are related languages spoken by Austronesian peoples who migrated from Taiwan to SE Asia to Oceania for centuries which also spread their essential crops including breadfruit - anthropologists know this as the "Austronesian expansion" .
Wish it was more popular in Malaysia, outside of being a fried snack. It would go great in rendeng and other Malaysian curries.
Breadfruit is my absolute favourite food on earth 🌎 😋 So glad I came across your video. I now have quite a few more ideas how to cook breadfruit. 🎉
So glad!
Aw! Good grief! Whatta you mean you can't roast a breadfruit on the stove flame?!? I watched an old Grannie from Jamaica do it that way and it looked freakin' delicious--and cooked! It's the same as a campfire!
In Seychelles we grill and cook boring with suger, and we cooked with coconut milk suger, vanilla, you must pass your spoon 🥣 in it erve 5minit for 30minit,
I know you can use plastic wrap in the microwave but something about a plastic bag in the microwave for 20 minutes scares me
The Breadfruit tree is absolutely beautiful. I wish I could grow them in our dry climate.
Some of my first memories in the early 50s was eating pounded breadfruit after being boiled on truk, now known as chuuk. Big lump of dough that was eaten with two fingers digging out a lump of it and dipping it in soy sauce with a bit of lemon. Absolutely loved the stuff. Later on when moved to yap I continued to eat it as often as I could. Mom baked it and served it like potatoes. She also would thinly slice it and cook it in a pan with melted sugar. What a treat for us kids without much sweets at all. Islander would still boil or bake them similar to cooking in the ground. Havnt had it in over 50 years and miss it terribly.
That sounds so good
First time seeing breadfruit fry like that. Interesting may try it. Hear we roast, refrigerate for a or more then fry in oil/butter without any breading. Never add any sugar.
Mainly commenting to appease the almighty algorithm! I'm pretty sure by now I've seen just about every episode you've done (except for the one posted today of course) at least three times by now, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching them. I've become quite the fruit fan thanks to your videos, and I've also become quite the adventurous eater these days too!
so glad to hear it!
that kind-of R&B piano that plays multiple times in this video is awesome 😆🥰💗
Bruh, so in a project ive had to research a lot of fruits I've never heard of and literally you've covered everyone of them, in great detail, and obviously, today, im researching breadfruit, you da man playa
I’ve heard that young unripe breadfruit can be preserved to taste like marinaded artichoke hearts. I would try that… The thing is I can’t find a recipe. I know you’re not the recipe guy but fruit preserved to taste like artichoke hearts? I’d watch that.
Also Breadfruit makes a better-than potato, Potato salad. Just diced and boiled like a potato use your favorite potato salad recipe. Not only does breadfruit taste better than a potatoes the texture holds up surprisingly well. I was mid tossing some into the compost after 5 days ( I quit eating it after three) when my husband insisted I not so he could eat it for lunch. Against my better judgment I allowed it to live another day. I tentatively gave a small bit a try to see if the breadfruit had gone mushy. The texture was the same as the day I made it. Not bad for a fruit.
One more thing… fermenting bread fruit. It’s said that in bygone days breadfruit was wrapped in banana leaves, buried and left to ferment. It’s difficult to find any real instructions on how-to. And I’ve found absolutely nothing on flavor or how fermented breadfruit is used in a meal. While I don’t see you attempting to do this in your apartment, I did just watch you get engaged. Should you decide to take your bride to Kauai on your honeymoon/job-related tax write-off I’d happily volunteer our yard for a test-lab! I read that it needed to ferment for 17 days minimum so you might want to visit some other islands while it does it’s magic! LOL!
Love the show!
In Goa in India, we peel the outer green covering , then we cut thin slices of the bread fruit (it should be a little thicker than a wafer) . Then add some salt for taste and chilli powder and mix. Wait for a few minutes then pan fry the bread fruit. It is yummy to eat and once you start eating fried bread fruit you will not be able to stop.
My boyfriend's grandparents used to cook breadfruit a lot back from where he comes from, Mauritius. It's legit a power food. I like it best boiled with a lil bit of butter on it and also in a curry or fried like chips. Delicious.
In Jamaica we roast breadfruit on the gas stove and directly in the fire all the time. It's gives the breadfruit a yummy smokey flavor.
We also boil the breadfruit in soups similar to potatoes.
After roasting the breadfruit we sometimes fry it as well.
👋HI! I just found your channel by chance.. In Trinidad.. bread fruit is a versatile vegetable & cooked in a variety of ways..
boiled & fried..
Oil down (oil dung)
Shepherd's Pie
Breadfruit chips
Curried breadfruit
Stuffed in roti ( like dalpuri)
Breadfruit & Dumplings soup 🍲 &
Stuffed breadfruit like "aloo" pies
Thank you for sharing your ways of cooking this delicious vegetable..It is also roasted on the stove top & in an open fire in the yard..
I have lived near breadfruit most of my life. Never seen it roasted like you showed. Why would people say it wrong annoys me. You can cook your food however you want. There are many ways to cook it and tons of different recipes. Labelling something "right" or "wrong" because they don't do it or like it says a lot of the people behind. the opinion.... Some Jamaican people appear commenting they like it roasted! I am thankful I found your channel and that you referenced your video. I will gladly try new methods of cooking breadfruit I had not tried before.
You need to visit the Caribbean
I have eaten Breadfruit boiled, fried and baked. However, the best way is to make it and eat is as a breadfruit flan. For the flan you want to boil it and blender it and then combine it with the rest of ingredients of a regular flan. Also I recommend it green and not ripe (for the flan). My mother also makes rellenos de panapén. Which is another version of the Puerto Rican, rellenos de papa. Try it. Simply amazing. For the boiled breadfruit, you might want to add EVOO and some salt and pepper. That's how I would eat it when I lived by myself in Puerto Rico.
i have found those on the ground a few times in my town. Always a good day when I did
Oh yes I am from the Northern part of the Cook island. Call Rakahanga we do roast our breadfruit.After when it cook peel the skin mash wish coconutcream and roll it in a foil and put of sugar to your taste.Thank you for sharing.
Taote James I am living in New Zealand now.Thank you.
God that houseplants cry for help had me cry laughing. Also reminded me to water my plant too.
In Puerto Rico we make flan out of bread fruit.
Grew up on this stuff, boiled, with salted cod. (Also really good as “tostones”)
You can make breadfruit cheese casserole. Mix cooked, cubed breadfruit with a can of mixed vegetables and bechamel sauce. Put in a casserole dish. Cover the top with shredded cheese and breadcrumbs. Cook until bubbly and browned on top.
So if ur boiling breadfruit, please cut it up in halves first, remove the breadfruit heart( woodsy middle) before peeling, that makes it way easier and safer to handle.
Ahhh I love this! We usually boiled this mixed with 'latik', a sticky mixture of brown sugar and coconut milk.
In Puerto Rico we eat it boiled along with boiled cod fish. The cod fish is prepared with oil, onions, red or green bell peppers and some white vinegar. And don't forget a slice of avocado 🥑🥑🥑 yummy!
I’m Jamaican and breadfruits are kind of one of the staple foods we never eat ripe bread fruits we tossed them right before they start ripping we roast them but cooking when it’s in the middle before they are ready for roasting I love my boil bread fruit with curry chicken
Roasted on the stove is definitely not wrong or weird. It is the best!!!
Amen!
@@masalamouth Thanks for the confirmation:)
Of course you are right roasting breadfruit on the stove is an awesome way to prepare breadfruit. We do so in the Caribbean. When it is finished roasting just wrap with paper towel and wet it. Before peeling . Or you can put it in your owen and bake it.
Hello,mr. Explorer, i live in Jamaica in the Caribbean, and we always roast breadfruit on the stove just like u did and it is always so delicious.
I just found you and appreciate what you do because I've done the same on a much smaller scale. I've always loved going around neighborhoods to find fruit trees to pick from. Here in Denver, you can find peaches (mostly small peaches, but I've also seen those massive softball sized peaches that are very good), apricots, italian plums (my granny had a tree in her backyard, great plums), small pears, different types of crab apples, grapes, and chokecherries. When we used to eat mushrooms, we'd go pick fruits haha. Any time I see new fruits at natural grocers or whole foods, I try them.
I've wanted to try paw paws, and bread fruit for a very long time. The one I've really wanted to try is chocolate pudding fruit, which I still haven't had the chance to try. Hope one day.
I really didn't like chokecherry at first, but quickly started loving them. The nice big ripe ones are amazing. That dry taste to them is part of the specialty. I've even made a batch of wine from them. There's a park in Denver that has a bunch of chokecherry bushes around the edge that had massive quantities of fruits, but for some reason, the city started removing some of them, and trimming the bushes to the point where they don't fruit much.
My buddy's grandma planted a weird fruit tree in their backyard that I still havent figured out what it was. It grew these tiny red berries that tasted like raspberry, but they didn't blundle. They were like raspberry, but just single little berries. Very good, though.
you have to make tostones with it like plantains!
I am from the Caribbean and You can roast it on the stove, on a wood fire or in the oven. You can make breadfruit chips, mash it like cream potatoes, make breadfruit salad. Scallop breadfruit with codfish and cheese pie. Breadfruit cakes. In the Caribbean the recipes for breadfruit are endless.
Thanks for the video! Boiled, you can eat it with salted butter, fried is good with a coriander chutney 😉
The video of you roasting the bread fruit on the stove was the first video of yours I ever watched
We cook it many different ways too.
- Cook over the fire (similar to cooking over stove but over open fire instead). With this method you cook it until its burnt all over, then peel off the skin then pound it until its very soft and gooey. You break it into pieces and dip it in coconut cream which has been caramalised with burnt sugar.
- Another method is cook in tradition earth oven (we call it umu)
- Another, cook like a potato and make a stew with tinned corn beef (this is one of my favourites)