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Weekend Garden ~ Starfruit

Weekend Garden features ‘Star Fruit’ (Carambola). Our backyard starfruit tree is full of fruits and my 7 year old is on a fruit-plucking spree. Just plucking, mind you, since the fruits are within his reach. He won’t eat it.

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Since June the tree has been bearing good fruit.

star-fruit-tree

The anti-oxidant rich fruit starts out with a green color and ripens to a yellow shade. It can be eaten both at the green and yellow stages.

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Carambola aka Starfruit

When sliced a perfect star is formed. Crunchy and juicy with a slightly tart and sweet flavor. I like it raw, sometimes with a sprinkling of chilli pwd.

sliced-star-fruit

Note: I’ve learnt that people with kidney ailments should avoid starfruit.

Weekend Garden ~ Starfruit Recipe

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Weekend Garden features ‘Star Fruit’ (Carambola). Our backyard starfruit tree is full of fruits and my 7 year old is on a fruit-plucking spree. Just plucking, mind you, since the fruits are within his reach. He won’t eat it.
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By • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: All Recipes, Fruit Recipes, Home Gardening, Misc

  • Sudha

    Hello Sailu garu,

    You have such a beautiful garden with beautiful fruits.

    Photos are amazing. I wonder that u only shoot that photos or photographer. You have great future Sailu Garu.

    Nice Work…

  • http://www.aayisrecipes.com shilpa

    They are one of my childhood favorites. Our neighbor had a big tree. Aayi made pickle from it. Yummm

  • http://www.meesosweetandspicy.blogspot.com meeso

    I love starfruit, such a neat looking fruit, and tastes so good!

  • http://arundati.wordpress.com arundati

    i’ve never eaten this…looks so cute…i think some kind of crush can be good…or as a filling for a tart/ pie.

  • deepu

    nice pictures

  • http://indiancookingblog.blogspot.com/ Hema

    WOW, looks great, never heard or seen this before

  • http://cilantro-cilantro.blogspot.com/ Cilantro

    Try them with chat masala.

  • http://fastrecipes.com fast cooker

    It a beautiful fruit, its great for decorating your food.

  • http://iyengarskitchen.blogspot.com/ veda

    oh i love this fruit! my best memory eating this fruit is with the whole family in cubbon park, bangalore with good sprinkling of salt n chilli pwd!!!!!!yum!!!!!!

  • sumalatha

    hi sailu…we also have this tree at my house in native.we called it as ilambri kaya.

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  • sony

    I too have this in my yard and every morning I would wake up to see the tree full of parrots pecking on the soft seeds of star fruit and the ground below will be full of fruit flesh. star fruit works well when you have a soar throat. Just put a few pieces in a muslin cloth and squeeze out the juice.you can have this with honey or just a pinch of salt.This clears the phlegm from the throat.