Every summer, we have loads of pomegranates on our land, and we do nothing with them. The reason is that there's a kind of stone surrounded by nice flesh, so you have to spit the stones out all the time.

I found pomegranate on some recipes on this site, but how on earth do you get the flesh off the seed inside?

Phil

If eating them at home, I eat a large spoonful at a time and sort of lightly chew and suck and press to get all the juice and then spit out a dry ball of pips.

Sometimes the pips aren't too bitter/ large and I just eat the lot.

Juiced is nice too, if you have a juicer.

Completely different taste IMO to the cartons of juice you can buy...

Phil have you moved onto a farm and been given an assorted box of unlabelled seeds?.. you seem to have a lot of things growing around you that you don't use/like... .lol

The ones I've seen and eaten tend to have small seeds that you just eat along with everything else. we used to eat them with a tiny fork when we were children. Try them tossed on salads, used with icecream or juiced

Steve

Kavey has described the eating of it perfectly. Seeds are not harmful if eaten. Easy way to shell pomegranate is to cut it in half, hold the half up-side-down on a bowl and bash gently with a wooden spatula. all seeds fall out into the bowl like magic. To make juice, just blend the pearls in an ordinary blender lightly and sieve the solids out. We love it with a little Chaat masala added to it.

This site may help re pomegranates http://www.pomegranates.org/home.shtml

Looks like a good site for information ! Having been to Cyprus once or twice (and then some) and seen them growing all over the Island, I'm surprised I've not eaten or at least seen recipes with pomegranate in them !

Steve

Thanks, everyone.

Steve: the house we bought here in the S of F just happened to come with a lot of land, so we have a pine grove, many olive trees, fig trees, pomegranate trees. We're doing fine with the olives: we take them to the mill and get really good olive oil. i'll even be using the pine cones to do pesto next year. But it's daft not to use the figs and pomegranates.

Kavey: forgive my ignorance, but what's a juicer? Is a manual juicer like the thing I squeeze my half lemons on?

Oddies: thanks for the link. I tried putting them in a blender once: revolting! If I could only extract the juice, my daughter woule drink it.

Phil

(jumping in)

A juicer is a moderen bit of kit that extracts juice from many things like celery/carrots/oranges/wheat grass etc... think it does it by chopping and spinning it out...

Steve

Phil, once you have blended pomegranate lightly, you have to strian it to remove any solids. If they are sweet pomegranates, the juice should be good.

Ah! So light blending, then straining. I'll try it.

Steve: I've no idea what that bit of kit looks like, or what the name is in French.

If I cut a pomegranate in two and twisted it in a manual plastic lemon squeezer, would that do the trick? It separates lemon juice from the pips.