This will change your life

[madbaker]

This week's Resolution Recipe, which is a bit of a cheat: How to quickly seed Pomegranates.

Cut off the "tiara" on top of the pomegranate and slice it in half along the fruit's equator. Cut four or five 1" nicks in the skin along the cut edge, approximately in a star pattern.

Hold a half pomegranate around the edge, facing down into a bowl (preferably within a deep well like the sink). Take a large metal spoon in your other hand and whack the pomegranate with the back of the spoon repeatedly. The seeds will pop out into the bowl. Clean out the few remaining seeds from the pomegranate rind and clean out any white pithy bits that made it into the bowl.

Voila! A completely seeded pomegranate with very little mess in under five minutes. Yes, the "treasure hunt" method was fun as a kid, but it leaves stained hands and takes over an hour.

What worked: See "voila" paragraph above.
What didn't: It's too easy. Now I have no excuse to buy and eat pomegranates in season.
Will I do it again? Since I have >10 pomegranates sitting in the back porch, definitely!

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

That sounds intriguing. Will have to get a pomegranate and give it a try.

[incendiary-ave.livejournal.com]

ooh, I have a bag of poms to seed from my Dad's place. I usually use the bowl of water trick. Will have to give this a go.

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

ok, I can be dense
just to be sure...

cut off the tiara part
another cut is across the middle, side to side with the tiara stub pointing up

is that right?
if it is that easy, that answers the question I had just the other day about "why the #$% would anyone bother with these things????"
:)

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

It is that easy.

[xrian.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This is really helpful.