A wow cado

Nagu aunty, our neighbour in Mysore, gave us bags full of ‘butter fruit’ which grew in her backyard. We used to cut them open, scoop out the mildly flavoured pulp, sprinkle sugar and savour them. They had smooth skin, like green apple, rather than the rough skin of the avocado we know of. Never knew they were part of the family of the popular avocado. Maybe because it was never that popular in India.

After many years when I saw avocados in the super-market here, I wondered whether to buy them and what to do with them. I even bought one but tasted quite bland when I ate it without any accompaniment.

Recently I bumped into a kind friend at the super-market and I asked her what she did with the avocado she was buying, to which she simply said “Guacamole”. Oh that did it. I did not want to look like I was copying her outright. So promptly the next time I went to buy my groceries, I picked them up. The same night, I scooped out the pulp, added a dash of lemon, salt, added finely chopped onion and tomato and served it alongside Tortilla chips. My teen took a dip of my first ever guacamole and said “Oh this is the best ever.”



Yesterday I could not resist photographing some other exotic fruit at the Super-market, tropical fruit which we tasted for the first time in Singapore, Mangosteen, Pomelo and the Pearl Jamu fruit.
The not-so-unusual pineapple seemed to be dug up along with its baby-pineapples. Why?

 

 
 



Mangosteen was supposed to be Queen Victiria's favourite

 

Dragon fruit and pearl Jamu



The pineapple is a Bromeliad correct?



Pomelos are grown in India too

But the one that looked a little spooky was called Buddha Hand!!

Buddha Hand is supposed to have a lemony taste

Since the avocado bought last week was not going to last much longer, I cut it, turned half of it into guacamole because I specifically bought tortilla chips yesterday.

But it was the other half that was my original creation. I cut cubes of the avocado, added baked cashewnuts, cranberry seeds and sunflower seeds and sprinkled sugar, perhaps to remind me of my childhood days. You could add honey instead. Or sugar and coconut milk.

Can you tell which is guacamole and which my recipe?

Bon appetite.