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Horny Melon
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Choose a kiwano that is fully ripened. It'll have an orange rind with orange spikes. Squeeze it slightly to make sure it has some give and isn't rock hard and green. [2]
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If you can't find a fully ripened fruit at the store, wait for it to turn orange before eating it.
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Give it a rinse. While you won't be eating the outside, it's always a good idea to rinse fruit you're planning on cutting, to avoid any pesticides or other chemicals on the outside when you cut into it with a knife.
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Cut the fruit in half short-ways, across the equator. Set one half aside. This is the best way of cutting the fruit for eating it by itself.
If you want to scoop the seeds out for use in a recipe or fruit salad, it can be easier to scoop if you cut it lengthwise. It's up to you. [3]
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Hold one half of the fruit up to your mouth. Slowly, but firmly, squeeze the fruit from the lower end. Each tiny greenish sac will contain a cucumber-like seed, and they should come to the cut surface of the fruit easily with a little pressure.
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Eat them. Like a pomegranate , the seeds are perfectly edible, but are somewhat bland. What you're after is the sweet green flesh around the seed. You can take one at a time into your mouth and separate the seed before spitting it out, or take a whole mouthful and chew it up.
If you don't like the seeds, try pinching the sac of fruit gently with your front teeth. Suck the sac of fruit through your top and bottom teeth, pinching enough to hold the seed on the outside of your teeth, yet still allowing the fruit to pass through.
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Consider scooping out the fruit. You can also scoop out the seeds into a bowl and eat them with a spoon if you prefer. Its easier to break the little green kernels that way, but can be somewhat easier if you don't want to bury your face in the fruit.
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Add kiwano to a fruit salad . Like kiwi, kiwano can make a nice colorful addition to a fruit salad, and an unexpected treat for guests. Mix bananas, mango, and melon with a sprinkling of kiwano for a beautiful summer fruit salad. [4]
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Garnish roasted meat with kiwano. Grilling steaks or chops? Instead of topping with rich cheese or mushrooms, consider sprinkling some kiwano kernels on top of your meat a few minutes before serving for an exotic and tangy highlight. [5]
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Make kiwano salsa. Seed one kiwano melon into a bowl and mix it with:
the juice of one lime
a clove of garlic
a palm-full of fresh chopped cilantro
one green onion, or a 1/8 of a white onion
a quarter-teaspoon of cumin
Mix in a small amount of vegetable oil to coat the mixture and use the salsa as a garnish for meat, grilled vegetables, or eat it with chips for some surprising nachos.
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Garnish cocktails with kiwano. Sprinkle a few green kernels into a champagne flute before mixing up a mimosa or to highlight a gin and tonic instead of a lime slice.
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Make the Intergalactic Nebula. Remove the Kiwano melon seeds and place in a cup. Fill the cup with sparkling red grape juice cocktail 3/4 of the way to the top of the cup. With the remainder space, add half and a half (optional), Serve in layers for the best look before stirring.
Yes, but you may want to strain the seeds out first. Scoop out the inside and pass the pulp through cheesecloth or a fine strainer to separate the seeds from the juice.
Yes! Plant the seeds about an inch into the soil during the spring. After that you can find instructions online for caring for the plants.
How long does it last in a Ziplock bag?
It will not last very long before it spoils.
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Native to the Kalahari Desert, the Kiwano is also known as the Horned Melon, the melano, the African horned cucumber, the jelly melon, and the hedged gourd. When allowed to ripen, the fruit tastes like a mix of cucumbers, kiwis, and bananas. Now that you have one of these interesting fruits, where do you start? Read on to find out. [1]
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To eat a kiwano, rinse the melon off and slice it in half short-ways, across the equator. Hold one half of the fruit up to your mouth and squeeze the lower end to enjoy the fleshy green kernels. Kiwano melons have edible seeds, but feel free to spit them out if you don't like the taste. You can also add raw kiwano to fruit salad, blend it into a tasty salsa, or garnish your favorite cocktail with a few of the sweet green kernels. If you want to learn how to tell if a kiwano is ripe for eating, keep reading the article!
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Today I was in Whole Foods, perusing the produce aisles when I encountered a spiky lemon-like fruit that looked like something out of a Tim Burton movie.
“What the hell is that thing?” I asked.
“Language!” shouted a school teacher.
I read the sign above the spiky lemonfruit. It said: HORNY MELON.
“If I have to warn you again, you’re going to the principal,” said the teacher.
Now, I’m not one to purchase foreign fruits for the sheer novelty of saying “I purchased a horny melon.” Yet, as the fearless founder of a site such as this, with millions of devoted readers around the world hanging on my every word, I said to myself: “Self: you buy that horny melon and you eat it!”
So I took it home and named it Petey.
“Petey,” I said, “I’m going to put you on a cutting board.”
I put Petey on the cutting board and he looked like this:
“Now Petey,” I said, “this might hurt a little. I’m going to cut you in half.”
Petey stayed quiet, which I thought was awful nice of him.
As I brought the spoon to my mouth, I recalled the words beneath the name HORNY MELON in the Whole Foods. “Tastes like a cucumber.”
Having tasted it now, I would amend that description and say: “tastes like a bland, acidic cucumber.”
In other words, Petey was a waste of $3.89. The best thing about him was his funky exterior. The insides tasted like mushy cucumber and battery acid.
What’s the lesson here? Sometimes it’s what’s on the outside that counts.
Try a durian sometime. You can get them in the Hong Kong Supermarket on Buford Highway. They’re the size of a bowling ball, covered with spikes, and they smell like shit (literally) and taste like a garlic-accented vanilla custard. (better than it sounds.)
Try a Cherimoya sometime. Looks like a Salvador Dali interpretation of a pine cone. Custardy inside with a flavor that’s a cross between a banana and a pineapple.
i bought my first horny melon yesterday. how about use as a decoration instead of the boring green apples everyone uses. i got mine cheaper at kroger than you.
also i put it in a smoothie and it was really good.
do you know the nutritional value of the horny fruit? do they come in any other colors besides–yellow/orangey
you must try it again—but get it at the grocery–
Horny fruit is also known as dragon fruit. It’s also available with a hot pink outside and a white inside. I think it is the fruit of a certain cactus. It actually has a lot of nutrients, so lots of people on diets eat them in Hong Kong. I had mine in Reunion.
It looks like a guava, but it’s not as sweet. Sorry, but Battery acid it ain’t. Perhaps it’s not the best tasting exotic fruit out there but, what-the-hey, it looks pretty cool on the outside, and the taste of cucumber is pronounced. Admitedly, it’s probably not worth the higher price but, again, what the heck. It’s just one of the many, interesting things to try in the world. I thought it was fun and worth the price of admission.
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The most impressive health benefits of kiwano may include its potential ability to improve cognitive ability, prevent certain types of chronic diseases, aid in weight loss , protect the skin , and boost metabolism . Kiwano improves eye health, strengthens bones, optimizes digestion, and speeds up wound healing.
The horned melon or kiwano ( Cucumis metuliferus ) is a strange-looking fruit native to Southern Africa and has recently (in the past century) been introduced to other parts of the world, namely Australia and New Zealand. This is where it picked up the name kiwano, due to its similar consistency and appearance to kiwi . However, this fruit is not biologically linked to kiwi
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