ROSELLE FRUIT : Let's discover this amazing fruit together with me for the first time ever!
Greetings of the day lovely foodies of Hive!!!
I hope everyone is having a great start of this new week!
Some days back when I reached at my restaurant, I saw these beautiful red fruits on the table...my sister bought them for me to try!
It was the first time ever that I was going to use/prepare them...
ROSELLE FRUIT!!!
After some researches on the net, I found that they are from the Hibiscus family and present in many countries around the world and known by different names!
I also learned how to prepare them...
The plant stems and leaves are also wildly use, but let's focus on the fruits for today!
Cleaning / Preparing
Actually only the red petals are consumable while the green seed which is found in the middle is not used in kitchen!
I first started by taking out the dark red spikes which are found all around the fruit.
Next I broke off the petals (5 per fruit) and separated them from the green seed.
At this stage...I decided to try to taste the petals...
Very acidic like lemon taste!
I discarded the seeds and the spikes, and kept only the beautiful red petals to make like a 'jam' with them!
Making the jam is quite easy...
I put 300gms for the 300gms of petals that I got from the lot - the acidic taste made me add little bit more sugar!
Then add 2 spoon of water and put to cook!
I let it cook on low fire for about 1 hour and the color that it became was just amazing!
The petals became soft and the syrup was such a nice dark red color...I let the petals whole in that beautiful syrup and kept in a pot for later use!
I will let them in that pot for minimum a week and see the evolution/transformation!
Overall it was a very nice experiment with a fruit that i've never used before!
Once I am fully satisfied with the jam...after maturation I will share what I did with them - Stay tuned for that!
Have you every seen Roselle and eaten them!?
How are they normally prepared/used in your country?
Please drop a comment below and share your knowledge with us all!
Wish you all a great day/evening ahead!
Thanks for reading my post!
Best Regards!
