Pomegranates are delicious but can be difficult to cut quickly and properly. Learn the secret of how to quickly cut a pomegranate and get all the arils out almost instantly!
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We love pomegranates, and you probably do too. What most people DON’T like is peeling or processing a pomegranate. Since this is an ancient fruit, people from those ancient cultures and their modern-day descendants have methods to quickly process individual fruits as well as batches of pomegranates. These are old methods - nothing new, but not that well-known in Western cultures, or in North America.
In this episode, DirtFarmerJay will show you two such ancient methods - one to enjoy juice right out of the fruit, and the other is to quickly cut and get the pomegranate arils out. You can be enjoying a bowl of pomegranate in 3 to 5 minutes!
Wear dark clothing when you cut pomegranates, as there is likely to be some pomegranate juice expelled and it is very dark red. The rich color indicates some of the healthy properties of the fruit, including antioxidants. And while the juice is delicious and colorful, it also can stain clothing, so wear dark shades of clothing or an apron when you process pomegranates.
Many people confuse arils and seeds when it comes to pomegranates. Arils are filled with juice and a small edible seed. They are transparent, and they can be chewed and ingested as is, without removing the small seed. However, if you like, you can spit out the small seeds. It’s up to you, either way is fine!
Pomegranate is often misspelled as pomengranate, pomegranite or pomagranate. It makes it easier to spell pomegranate correctly when you know the name is originally from Middle French "pomme garnete," literally meaning "seeded apple." In some areas and cultures, the pomegranate is also referred to as “Chinese Apple.” It is interesting to note that the pomegranate's botanical name, Punica Granatum, translates as "apple with many seeds."
Sure you can go buy pomegranate juice or seeds in containers, but you will pay MUCH more than you will if you buy pomegranates and process them yourself. And now, with what you know, you can JUST DO IT YOURSELF.
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Hey, Dirt Farmer Jay here from DirtFarmerJay.com.
In this video, I'm gonna show you two great ways
to enjoy pomegranates really quickly.
You'll be eating in no time at all, stay tuned.
Hey, Dirt Farmer Jay here from DirtFarmerJay.com.
We love pomegranates, you probably do too,
but getting ready to eat them can be a real hassle.
Well, not too long ago, we put out a video
that has been viewed almost 3.8 million times now
from people around the world entitled
The Fast Way to Process a Pomegranate.
In that video, we gave you lots of detail,
and if you wanna know more about pomegranates
and how they grow and all that,
then check out that video like a lot of other people have.
But in this video, in just a few moments,
I'm gonna show you two great ways
you can enjoy pomegranates.
Now, one of the ways you can do
is simply to mash up the inside of it,
put a straw into it, and then just suck the juice out,
and when you're done, you've got this unit
that's all deflated, essentially,
and then you just throw that in your compost pile,
or if you've got chickens, split it open,
give it to them, and they'll really enjoy it.
Let's go ahead and try that first thing.
We're just gonna roll this around,
turn it into a bag of mush,
and let's see how that turns out.
Now, what we're doing is we're taking this,
and you can hear it soften.
I can feel it soften up.
See, you can see it flattening out there.
Well, there you can see I've got a place there that's open.
Let's go ahead and stick a straw in it.
Well, you have to overlook the fact
that our kitchen looks like a murder scene
because I pressed it down a little hard,
but this is just really mushy and soft.
We've stuck a little straw in it.
You've got a metal straw.
That'll work pretty well,
and I've just put it down on the other side.
Let's see what we got.
Oh, my gosh.
That is a great, quick way,
and perhaps the little ones in your life
would really enjoy that, so that's one way to enjoy it.
Well, let's clean up, and I'll show you the second way.
All right, method number two.
A couple things you're gonna need to make this happen.
Number one, notice I've put on an old shirt.
You can tell it's a little worn out here,
but it's a shirt that, with any juice splatters onto me,
I'm not gonna care, or you can put on an apron.
I'd certainly recommend dark-colored clothes.
I don't want you wearing a nice, light-colored
and having a stain that's hard to remove.
Second thing you need is a wooden spoon,
a little work surface, this kind of knife
or something like that, a paring knife
that's got a nice point that you're gonna work with,
and then you need a bowl of water,
and we're gonna show you why you need that in a moment.
Now, for those of you who are thinking,
wait a minute, bowl of water,
that means you're gonna dilute the juice.
You shouldn't be doing that.
No, we're actually gonna be rinsing the encapsulated seeds,
which is the arils.
They are all self-contained,
and the water's not gonna get into it.
All it's gonna allow us to do is quickly separate
all those delicious arils you're gonna enjoy
and all the inner parts of the structure here,
but let's get to work.
Here we're gonna go.
Here you have this really nice pomegranate.
First thing you gotta understand is how it grew.
That's where it was attached to the tree at the top,
and that was the bottom of the bloom
before it was all pollinated.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna take this
and turn it up like this,
and if you notice, the pomegranate
has kind of a drop-off edge.
It's almost pumpkin-shaped.
It's flattened, and then all of a sudden, it drops.
So right on that ridge line,
we're gonna do a quick slice right here,
just penetrating in,
and we're just gonna break through the skin.
I'm not trying to cut real deep,
and the goal is to come back around
and meet the other cut, all right?
And once you're there, what you're going to do
is grab where you cut and lift off,
and as you do, some of it's gonna drop away,
so go ahead and capture those right there, all right?
Now you can see the inside of the pomegranate.
Now what you're gonna do is look at the divisions.
There's natural divisions in here,
and some of our viewers have pointed out
from different parts of the world,
all of this structure that holds it in here
can actually be kept side and dried
and used to create a tea
that some find to be very helpful
and that they very much enjoy,
but what we're gonna do right now
is just noticing where those sections are.
We're just gonna take a slice,
and we're gonna go down to about where
that curve starts again to the bottom.
Don't cut all the way to the bottom
because you want to keep this intact.
So everywhere you find a division, slice it,
and if I wasn't explaining,
I would be going really fast on this.
We can have a whole pomegranate done
in about a minute and a half, okay?
So now you can see the sections where I've cut it.
Now at this point, take your bowl,
put it above the bowl, and start cracking this open,
and when you crack it open,
notice why I didn't want to cut all the way.
I want this section to hold everything together.
So when you've got it to that far,
notice that the center section now is pretty much let go.
You can put that in, kind of crush it,
and notice that the white material floats to the top
and the arils, which are not seeds,
the seeds are inside the arils with juice,
they drop to the bottom.
So I can go ahead and get rid of some of those,
and now you can see this all starting
to come apart pretty quickly.
At this point, simply turn it over,
take a spoon, and spank it, okay?
And then you can rotate.
Got a few escapees that are running off the side there,
but by and large, everything's dropping into the water,
and then I go ahead and hit the center as well
to dislodge a lot of those,
and as you can see, the vast majority of them dropped out.
Now, you can take the time you want
to pick out some of these here and get them going.
I don't know if you can hear the cat in the background,
but the cat has decided it wants to get in the action too.
Our apologies for the interruption on stage,
but here I can clean out the rest of the way.
Let's turn our attention here,
and you can see now that all of those tissue parts
in there are floated to the top,
and now I have all of that ready to go to enjoy,
and again, for those of you who are concerned
about the water, notice that it's not compromising
those at all.
They are sealed.
You're not diluting anything,
and if you so desire, you can dry this,
pulverize it, and make a tea out of it,
so this is a quick way to enjoy this.
Another thing that we really enjoy around here
is corn on the cob, but we don't want to take a long time
to boil a pot of water and put the corn in there
and all that.
How would you like to have corn in about five minutes?
Well, check out this great video
where we show you how to do that and enjoy it,
presented by our friends Bruce and Diane.
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Enjoying some great pomegranate.
