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Persimmon fruit recipes

November 13, 2013 9 Comments Filed Under: Food, Recipes, Uncategorized


I got sent a box of Spanish Persimmon of the Hachiya type recently. In Israel they are called Sharon fruit but Persimmon sounds far more exotic and romantic, stemming from an American Native Indian word. As girl’s names go, I prefer Persimmon to Sharon. They are very pretty fruit with an intensely sweet soft flesh. Technically they are a berry. You must wait until they are ripe to eat them otherwise they could cause a bezoar, a kind of woody hard mass in your stomach, if you eat too many regularly. One of the remedies for this is drinking lots of Cocoa cola which shrinks them.
I had a good old play:

  • I baked them with spices
  • I roasted slices 
  • I paired them with breakfast cereal
  • I poached some 
  • I ate some raw, cut in half and scooped out the flesh as if it were a boiled egg
  • I ate some with the skin on
  • I combined them with a coconut tapioca pudding 

 Lazy arse breakfast muesli with warm persimmon.
It is a rule that making your own muesli is always going to be better than shop-bought. But sometimes I cannot even be bothered to properly make muesli. So I just eat the ingredients raw! Still tastes good.

1 Persimmon, cooked in spices such as star anise, grated nutmeg, ground cloves with
a drool of honey
A scoop of porridge oats
A handful of nuts
A glug of Milk
a dollop of Yoghurt
a pinch of ground cinnamon

Cut up the persimmon into chunks. Place in a saucepan with a star anise, a few scrapings of nutmeg, a pinch of ground cloves and a tablespoon of honey. Simmer until warm.
Take a bowl and scoop in your cereal stuff, whatever you’ve got around, porridge oats, ends of cereals such as rice crispies, cornflakes, all bran.
Add any nuts you like, almonds and hazelnuts are great.
Pour in some milk, a dollop of yoghurt.
Add the warm Persimmon.
Sprinkle some ground cinnamon.

Roast Persimmons with coconut tapioca pudding
Tapioca is a love or hate food, probably because of school dinners. It is a starch. It just says that on the packet. It isn’t a form of pasta, like semolina, but from the cassava root. It has virtually no nutritional value whatsoever. I like the pearl like texture of tapioca pudding but you may not. 
To make the tapioca:
400ml of boiling water
300g of tapioca pearls
1 can (400ml) of coconut milk
100g of caster sugar
a pinch of salt
To roast the persimmons:
100g of palm sugar
100ml of boiling water
4 persimmons cut in half
3 star anise
a thumb of ginger, grated finely
a stick of cinnamon
Tapioca method:
Put the water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. (Actually I always use an electric kettle to boil water). Then add the tapioca pearls. Cook for five minutes, constantly stirring, then add the can of coconut milk, the sugar and the salt. Cook on a low heat for another ten minutes. Keep stirring, it sticks easily. When the pearls are translucent, they are cooked.
Persimmons:
Put the palm sugar and water in a saucepan, heating until the sugar melts, to make a 1:1 syrup
Cut the persimmons in half or in slices and place in a baking tin. Add the star anise, ginger, cinnamon . Add the syrup and roast in a hot oven for ten to fifteen minutes.
To serve:
With the tapioca still warm, or it can be served cold, portion it out into glasses, cups or small bowls, adding half a persimmon or a slice on top of the tapioca. You can add some more shavings of palm sugar on top. 

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  1. Anonymous

    November 13, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    Best eaten raw

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  2. Anonymous

    November 13, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    Yeap, Persimmon sounds much nicer to me, too. 🙂 I bet they were amazing with the tapioca pudding. Would be great with rice pudding, too. And I love how you paired them with the star anise, how their shapes match – simply stunning.

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  3. Tina

    November 14, 2013 at 6:11 am

    Thank you for a really nice post. I have never eaten persimmons but you have inspired me to try them now.

    Tina

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  4. Anonymous

    November 14, 2013 at 7:14 am

    This is great. I'm never sure what to do with persimmons – I think I must have experienced woody ones sometime – but now with all these wonderful ideas must try again.

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  5. chiarag

    November 14, 2013 at 8:26 am

    I think I recognise this as what in Italy we call "kaki". When I used to live there it was my favourite autumn fruit, although I prefer the variety which has waxy skin but is really really soft in the middle and requires a spoon for eating….yumm! The recipes sound fabulous, I need to try harder and find them in London!

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  6. Social Media Services

    November 18, 2013 at 7:15 am

    WOw that is the first time I am coming across this fruit but the dish looks delicious. Ginger and cinnamon are very good for digestion.

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  7. Anonymous

    November 18, 2013 at 12:56 pm

    We have just been given a big basket of home-grown persimmon ('kaki' in Italy) and I've been wondering what to do with them, your suggestions look delicious (as does just about everything on your blog), grazie!

    Reply
  8. Jenni

    December 15, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    The thing about persimmons is essentially that you either cherish them or loathe them.kaki fruit

    Reply

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