Tropical plant Pulazan, where it is found, calorie content and useful properties. Potential harm when consumed. How fruits are eaten, what dishes and drinks are prepared from them. Interesting facts about nephelium, the best varieties. The use of this fruit has a rejuvenating effect, improves the quality of the skin, stimulates the production of natural collagen and elastin, and has a beneficial effect on hair growth.
In sweet dishes, pulasan is often a substitute for rambutan, especially if the dessert is made for children. The latter has a very bitter bone, which is difficult to separate from the pulp. In Pulasan, sarkotesta has a neutral taste and is easily separated from the pulp.
Harm and contraindications to nephelium fruits
No harm was found from the use of Pulazan. In rare cases, allergic reactions have appeared.
You should not treat young children and pregnant women with tropical fruit, but only because it is a new product. The child has an unstable composition of the intestinal flora, and it is better for pregnant women to prevent possible allergies.
But with pulasan seeds you need to be careful. The sarcotest contains hydrocyanic acid (cyanic acid). If the seeds are dried, it turns into pulp. Therefore, the dried seeds cannot be bitten, and in the future they can be consumed without restrictions. Children under 5 years old, pregnant women and women with lactation should not eat nucleoli.
How do you eat pulazan
To open the fruit, take it with both hands and forcefully turn the halves. It can be safely explained by an example of how to eat pulazan - as if opening a toy "Matryoshka". Even the name of the fruit "pulasan" comes from "pulas", which means "swirl", "removal".
If the fruit is served in a restaurant, then it is cut lengthwise. The slightest press - and the dense crust is removed, and the juicy fragrant pulp remains on the plate. Its taste is described as a mixture of raspberry jam and rose petals and fresh grapes with a delicate aroma of spring grass.
In the future, you can cut it with a knife and chop it on a fork or eat it holding the “berry” in your hands. Sarcotesta is very easy to separate, and the bone remains on the plate or in the palm of your hand.
Not only the pulp is edible, but also the bone. In its small homeland it is called pulsan, in Indonesia - kapulasan, in Thailand - bulala, in the Philippines - panungayan.
It is slightly dried, not for long, in order to prevent the accumulation of cyanogen, and then split with a nutcracker. In the future, the seeds are fried and boiled from them for drinks or decorate desserts.
Pulazan recipes
The fruits of the plant are not of commercial value, since they are grown in small quantities. But at the same time, jams are made from the fruit, jelly is prepared, and desserts are decorated with it.
Pulazan recipes:
- Dessert salad … Cut 15 peeled nephelium fruits into even pieces. Mango, canned pineapple and pear are cut into the same slices, peeling off and cutting out the middle. Everything is mixed in deep ceramic, glass or porcelain dishes. It is desirable that Pulasan be 1.5 times more than the rest of the ingredients separately. If it seemed very sweet, add chopped tangerine slices to the mixture. The salad is seasoned with honey, coffee liqueur, which sets off the sweetness. You can add a handful of pulasan seeds or almonds, chopped and slightly toasted in a pan. Before serving, each bowl is garnished with a cap of whipped cream.
- Stuffed eggs … The eggs are boiled, cut in half, the yolks are removed. The fruits of nephelium are ground together with salted soft cheese, a little orange juice is added and the egg whites are filled with this mass. Sprinkle a sweet snack on top with toasted crushed seeds powder.
- Seafood salad … Peel 300 g of king prawns, it is necessary to carefully remove the esophagus. Shrimps are boiled in salted water for no more than a minute. If the crustaceans are frozen, the cooking time is 3-4 minutes. Boil 1/3 cup of rice, preferably long, cut 6-7 pulasan fruits, after removing the bone. Rice is mixed with nephelium fruits, seasoned with mayonnaise and added to shrimp, beautifully laid out on a dish.
- Jam … Since the fruits are very juicy, it is preferable to cook the jam in your own juice. Fruit is peeled and covered with sugar, at the rate of 1 kg of pulp for 600-700 g of sugar. The container must be covered with gauze so as not to cause rotting before the pulasan gives juice. After 2-3 hours, the container is put on fire, boiled for 5 minutes, set aside, and the foam is removed. The container is removed from the heat and allowed to cool, resuming the cooking process as many times as necessary to thicken the jam. To avoid getting very cloying, before the last boil, you can put a slice of lemon with a peel, which is then removed.
Nefelium will favorably set off the taste of any ice cream, but it is better to add it to a coffee ice cream. There is no need to cook such a dessert - pieces of fresh peeled fruits are laid out on a dish with ice cream, after each slice is pricked on a skewer.
Recipes for drinks from fruit pulazan
Fruit can be used to make compotes and to make drinks from seeds, such as cocoa.
Drink recipes:
- Compote … Peel the fruit and carefully put it in a deep container so as not to damage the pulp. Boil the syrup, 300 g of sugar for 1 liter of water, bring it to a boil, pour in a tablespoon of lemon juice. The fruits are placed in a sterilized jar, poured with boiling syrup, covered with lids and sterilized in boiling water for 10 minutes. Then it is drained, brought to a boil again and poured again. Only after the third pouring, the cans are rolled up with sterilized lids. Turn each jar over and allow to cool under the covers. Such compote cannot be stored for more than six months. If a longer storage is planned, then the fruits should be divided in half, the seed removed, and only then pour the syrup over the fruit. In this case, the shelf life is 2-3 years.
- Simple Pulsan Drink … Slightly dried kernels are cleaned of shells and films. Heat the pan to 60 ° C, fry the seeds until they acquire a golden brown surface, without oil. Cool, grind in a coffee grinder. Heat the milk to a boil and pour the grated seeds into the container. How many - are guided by taste. Vanillin, cinnamon, sugar or honey are added to add sweetness or piquancy.
- Evening drink … The seeds are also dried, but not fried. The pan is heated to about 40 ° C, that is, so that it felt hot, but you could touch it with your hand. As soon as the seeds are dry, light, crush them with a crush directly in the pan, adding spices and honey and stirring constantly. In the future, the resulting homogeneous mass is diluted with hot water - it cannot be combined with milk, otherwise it will curdle.
- Cocktail … 10 peeled pulasan fruits are ground in a blender. While the grinding process is in progress, the syrup is boiled: 100 g of sugar in half a glass of water. Pour syrup, 1, 5 glasses of bitter brandy into a blender and bring the drink until completely homogeneous. Cool before serving and put a mint leaf in each glass.
From the fruits of the pulazan, you can cook ordinary compote, which is so good to quench your thirst on a hot summer day. A tropical fruit drink is brewed in the same way as traditional pears, apples or cherries. The water is brought to a boil and the nephelium fruits are poured into it along with various fruits: mangoes, apples, peaches, nectarines, Brazilian cherries. The resulting drink cannot be stored longer than a day, even if refrigerated.
Interesting facts about fruit pulazan
The plant bears fruit exclusively in humid regions with an ultra-tropical climate, but it is possible to get a good harvest only after a long dry season. Most of the fruit is harvested on the island of Java, in the villages around the railway between Bogor and Jakarta. They put forward a theory that substances released into the air by compounds for the movement of which coal is still used have a beneficial effect on the condition of trees.
In 1927, Pulasan was planted in Costa Rica, where it has taken root so much that the fruit can sometimes be found in the market.
Varieties bred in Java:
- "Seebabat" is bright red in color with frequent tubercles, spines and juicy flesh.
- "Kapoolasan seebabat" with a less intense skin color, which resembles rambutan in taste and quality. That is, there is less sweetness, and the pulp is more difficult to separate from the sarcotesta.
In Malaysia, Pulasan cultivation has been more successful. The berries of the Kapoelasan mera tjoplok and Asmerah Tjoplok varieties are sweet, juicy and seedless. Plant propagation is vegetative.
Nephelium is used not only in food, but also in the cosmetic industry. The seeds are used to make oil, which is used in the preparation of cosmetic soap. This soap helps in the treatment of dry dandruff and psoriasis, which causes intense flaking of the skin.
Wood is also valued. It is dense, hard and heavy and has a reddish color. Desks and chairs are made from it, which are very expensive.
Leaves and dried roots are used for medicinal purposes. Teas from the leaves have a pronounced antipyretic effect, and with the help of decoctions from the dried roots, intestinal worms are expelled.
Leaf poultices are used to treat dermatitis - they eliminate itching and accelerate the regeneration of the skin.
The shells of fruits in tropical countries are sold in a pharmacy as an antihelminthic agent.
A dye for fabrics is made from a mixture of biological raw materials - roots, leaves and bark. Depending on the strength of the solution, you can paint the canvas in yellowish, yellow, sand, ocher and brown colors of different saturation.
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Pulazan cuttings are planted with rambutan to produce sweeter fruits with less bitter seeds. At present, the breeding of the new variety is almost completed, but the name of the new fruit has not yet been given. The cultivation is not stable. Residents of the European countryside are unlikely to have to enjoy the sweetness of a tropical fruit.
