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Pitango fruit

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Around here many people have pitango bushes in their back yards. In the spring and fall they produce red fruits, similar in size to small cherries but tasting completely different. To me it has a sweet pepper taste. I never saw it being sold in the markets. Is anybody familiar with pitango and what can be made with it besides jams? Is there any other name for it?

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Around here many people have pitango bushes in their back yards. In the spring and fall they produce red fruits, similar in size to small cherries but tasting completely different. To me it has a sweet pepper taste. I never saw it being sold in the markets. Is anybody familiar with pitango and what can be made with it besides jams? Is there any other name for it?

Quoting from the pitango website:

The Pitango is a semi-wild cherry that grows in almost every Israeli neighborhood. Finding the ripened Pitango fruit takes persistence, as the best Pitangos are always the hardest to find.

Do you live in Israel?

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Around here many people have pitango bushes in their back yards. In the spring and fall they produce red fruits, similar in size to small cherries but tasting completely different. To me it has a sweet pepper taste. I never saw it being sold in the markets. Is anybody familiar with pitango and what can be made with it besides jams? Is there any other name for it?

Quoting from the pitango website:

The Pitango is a semi-wild cherry that grows in almost every Israeli neighborhood. Finding the ripened Pitango fruit takes persistence, as the best Pitangos are always the hardest to find.

Do you live in Israel?

yes I do! :smile: I don't think that it's indigenous but not sure where it comes from. , my neighbor has a tree sized pitango and they seem to all ripen at the same time.

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I've never eaten pitango, wish I could, but people's mention of its sweet pepper taste reminded me of this delicious soup. Maybe substitute pitango for the red peppers?

http://www.cuesa.org/cuesa/e-letter/archiv...cipe_090806.htm

djyee100, That's a great idea. I think pitango soup might be very tasty, thanks for the recipe. For a long time I didn't like pitango because I always expected it to taste like cherries .

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yesh!!! Well come with pitango and I will also get. What kind of a ganache do you guys thing will go with the pate de fruit of pitango?? We can do a layer of pate de fruit and on top a layer of ganache. But what kind and enrobe with ?? I think a dark enrobing of 55%or something like that? We can video or photograph the process from beginning to end.

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yesh!!! Well come with pitango and I will also get. What kind of a ganache do you guys thing will go with the pate de fruit of pitango?? We can do a layer of pate de fruit and on top a layer of ganache. But what kind and enrobe with ?? I think a dark enrobing of 55%or something like that? We can video or photograph the process from beginning to end.

I intend to take photographs and be the taste tester. I was searching far and wide for the latin name for Pitango. Here is what I came up with:

From wikipedia

""The Surinam Cherry, Brazilian Cherry, or Cayenne Cherry (Eugenia uniflora) is a plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to tropical America. Known as Pitanga throughout Brazil,"

that said, it has zero shelf life, you have to eat it off the tree, now I am searching for another pitango bush that didn't all ripen and fall of the tree on the same day! If I do, Lior, how should I process them if I can't get to you in time?

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food process and then put the puree in freezer. Ihad my "little one" and her cousins go picking. There were notmany and whatthey picked they ate.They brought me the yucky ones!!! :laugh:  :laugh: More will still come as I see them on the way.

I seemed to have missed the second fruiting of the pitango tree but salvaged a few almost black pitango, they were fantastically sweet and sour, some even tasted like purple grapes. There was not enough to actually puree them but I tasted the pitango with dark (70%) chocolate and I think it goes extremely well together. You should try it out.

Cheers, Sarah

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