Image: Su Leslie 2018
Pomegranates don’t grow well in New Zealand. They require more growing days than our climate generally provides, so aren’t really a commercially viable fruit.
This means that the pomegranates we can buy come from the US, and are available for a very short season.
Now.
My general shopping rule is to buy local, and boy do pomegranates challenge this. The juicy little arils add colour and crunch and a wonderful little pop of sourness to so many dishes.
In our house, pomegranate tends to be paired with duck, salty cheeses, oranges and mint for a dessert salad — or just eaten by the handful.
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Zimmerbitch 
Lovely! One of my favourite fruit! I always forget they do well with savoury dishes – I tend to mostly use them on my oatmeal or yogurt.
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Thanks Ju Lyn. I only discovered them as a “sweet” recently. I always bought them to serve with duck 😂
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So interesting, yes?
When I was growing up, pomegranate was painstakingly eaten as a fruit.
Yesterday, I ate at an Indian restaurant and one of their okra dishes had pomegranate sprinkled on top!
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🙂 That sounds interesting and yummy.
I have only cooked with okra once (a gumbo), and keep meaning to try something different with it.
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You’ve captured the lusciousness. and stunning colours.
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Thank you Tish. 🙏
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Pomegranates to me are the reincarnation of food-pO.rn….. Those shots here are dripping with the goodness of them. If only they weren’t such devils to open and serve. they are expensive here too and I usually only buy one or two to keep, trying to dry them and keep them for Christmas decorations!
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Love it!! That messiness to open/serve is such as sensuous thing. For the short season we import them they are quite affordable and I try to make the most of it. Luckily they’re versatile 😀
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You certainly make the most of them with this sensuous, luscious photos, Su. Pomegranates were almost a staple for us when we lived in Cairo. I adored them.
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Thank you 🙂 I don’t think I really appreciated them fully until I started looking at Yotam Ottolengi’s cook books.
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How exquisite. I love them as well but have never bought or prepared one myself. I’ve always had them in restaurants. These are delicious photos Su.
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Thanks so much. They are pretty messy to prepare, but the arils do keep in the fridge for a few days.
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I never knew they were called arils. I had to google!
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Sorry; I used to say seeds, but they are a bit more than that.
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😁 don’t be sorry. I’m happy to have learned something 😁
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Promegranites are an exotic fruit to most of us in Canada. I found they were a lot of work for so little return. You did take some lovely photos of them Su.
Leslie
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Su, well done, you’ve honored this fabulous autumn fruit.
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Thank you so much Sally 🙂
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Lovely with spicy chicken and BNS and also with a warm Halloumi salad. And I once spent ages making a pomegranate sauce for use with goats cheese. But I do find then a faff to open and remove the arils. My earliest recollection is having them at this time of the year as a child and removing the arils with a needle! Can’t imagine parents letting their children do that now!
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I can’t imagine it either. Nor can I quite imagine extracting them with a needle. That must have taken forever. Was it way to keep the kids quiet and engaged while the adults were busy?
BTW: made a rather good roast broccoli and buckwheat salad last night with mint and pomegranate seeds stirred through. Needs tweaking, but the basic idea is promising.
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