Kamansi is often mistakenly referred as a type of breadfruit but Kamansi is called as Breadnut in English.
Kamansi or breadnut has a spiky skin compared to breadfruit. Breadnut has seeds while you can hardly find seeds in breadfruit.
The last time we had Bayanihan we get bamboos in the creek where my father make it as his garden. He also planted Kamansi there and nowadays even he is gone, we are still harvesting the fruit of his labor.
While men are getting bamboos, I and my sister in law walk around and we saw some fallen mature breadnut. We are so glad seeing them because we are so interested on its seeds. It is edible.
Looking up we saw how huge this Kamansi tree is. We ask favor from the boys to get some fruit so we will have viand for our lunch later in church.
Cooking Kamansi with coconut milk
Ingredients:
15 more or less Kamansi or breadnut fruit
3 mature coconut
2 Onions
Spring onions
Lemon grass
Ginger
Salt
Water
Fried fish
Since we are having bayanihan that time, we also helped each other in preparing food for our lunch. I was not able to take pictures in every step but I will share to you how one of the women cooked it.
Step 1. Peel the Kamansi but not too thick.
Step 2. Slice the Kamansi according to your desired size and wash them thoroughly.
Step 3. Put water (enough to cook your kamansi) in the pot and let it boil.
While waiting for it to boil, prepare the other ingredients.
Step 4. Peel, wash, slice and prepare onions, spring onions, garlic, lemon grass as well as the mature coconut.
One of the men manually grate the coconut. After grating, remove its pure coconut milk. This is to be put when everything is cooked. Then, put another cups of water (depending on your desired quantity) to the grated coconut and get its coconut milk.
Step 5. Put the second coconut milk in the pot together with the spices like onions, garlic, lemon grass as well as the fried fish and let them boil.
Step 6. If the second coconut milk together with the spices are boiling, you can now add the sliced kamansi or breadnut. Add salt according to the desired taste. Cook it until tender.
Step 7. Add the pure coconut milk, let it boil and remove it on fire.
Your kamansi with coconut milk is now ready to be served. Serve while hot.
Cooking Kamansi seeds
While walking around under the kamansi tree we found mature kamansi on the ground and we are so happy because it means it has a lot of seeds that we can cook and eat.
We started to remove the seeds from the almost rotten kamansi and others are already rotten. We found some small worms in it that makes my face looks like this, lol.
You might feel something but thinking how good it is after cooking we just never mind those worms from its peel but off course not in seeds. We only need the seeds.
Here are some of the seeds we collected.
Let's cook kamansi seeds
Ingredients:
Kamansi seeds
Water
Salt
Procedure:
Step 1. Wash the kamansi seeds well.
Step 2. Put it in the pot, add water that leveled with the seeds and add salt according to taste.
Step 3. Put it on fire and let it boiled until the seeds are tender.
Step 4. Seeds can be eaten now. Remove it's first peel which is the harder one then the second peel.
Step 5. Kamansi seeds can be eaten when the peel are removed. We can eat the white part of the kamansi seeds.
Enjoy your kamansi seeds. Have you tried this one?
Thank you so much for reading.
