How to Eat Dragon Fruit

all righty what we got here today is dragon fruit got it at the Asian market this is a tropical fruit it's expensive as hell this was like $5.99 a pound which is ridiculous but you see it's starting to get a little bit funky starting to brown up a little bit it's a lot softer than it was you know not crazy soft but the longer you wait the sweeter it's gonna be I've already washed it you know this comes from a cactus sort of looks like a dragon you know I think they eat a lot of these in Game of Thrones there's a couple of different kinds of things you can get they can be red like this kind of pink sometimes they're yellow these here aren't supposed to be a sweet so the longer you let them soften up the sweeter it'll be but it's really easy we're just gonna cut it in half right down the center boom look at that man that actually looks pretty it's kind of an attractive fruit Kiwi yeah it does look like Kiwi except for Kiwis suck this doesn't look like it sucks over now we're gonna cut it in half and the flesh is it's pretty soft because I waited a little bit and now I'm just gonna peel it off that's all you have to do yeah yeah now the skin is not edible we can't it can do anything with that you know it's kind of tough you can make a shoe out of it maybe you could let it dry and use it as a bookmark the seeds are edible they add texture and Boom Boom Boom's a little bit soft here we go the taste test [Music] this one is a very sweet oh the reason you could find these in Asian markets in the US is primarily these come from Southeast Asian countries you know that's got this white flesh but if it was from Mexico or Central America or something and have red flesh and that's supposed to even mean sweeter but I've never had one of those people like to make these for smoothies so like if you've got money to burn if you've got like a shitload of money you know when you don't care about it then you can make smoothies with these you know if you like to make like a seven dollar smoothie at home but you want to make sure and not eat the skin because it'll uh it'll give you bursitis or they'll give you the queasy it'll make you queasy like Sunday morning if there's dragon fruit where you live how much does it cost you know if you're in Thailand or Vietnam or any of those places how much do you pay for dragon fruit there this was $5.99 a pen like this one costs like seven bucks um you know so yeah it had to come over on the damn dragon fruit boat you know so that might be why it's gone hmm but it's I can't get past it [Music] yeah

Channel: Chef Buck

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Id: U73wQYsr-1k

Length: 3min 12sec (192 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 01 2014