Jambu

One of the ideas I've had for this blog is a recurring post on the different fruits of Brazil. Because I love them. So much. The fruit--and juice--were among the things I truly missed when we were back stateside. In fact, the first time I walked down the produce aisle of the market I had an overwhelming sense that I might, well, cry. I missed the fruit here so much! When we visited Itacare this past summer (more on that later) the jambu fruit was abundant. On one of our day trips, some little girls were selling plates of jambu on the side of the road. Pictured is said plate--and that would be my hungry little hand creeping over to snag a jambu fruit asap:
I can't say that jambu is my favorite fruit, but i do think it is a beautiful color and cool shape. To me it doesn't have a ton of flavor, it is just kind of crispy and pear-like, without that pear flavor. I think the coolest thing about Jambu is the tree is shaped just like the fruit, so it's easy to spot a jambu tree, which is also very pretty. So, in my book jambu doesn't score high in flavor but does get big presentation points.