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More of the Brazil Nut

Well, it’s open – no blow torch, no sledgehammer, no chisel and no super tall trees. Apparently, you give it a few days and the top sort of pops up a bit and with some ungentle handling – Voila! It’s open.

So tomorrow we shall move on to the next step – scooping out the nuts and drying them, roasting them a bit etc. And sometime, eating them. Brazil nut recipes welcome.

More of the nutty pictures:

Brazil nut opening Brazil nuts

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I have since learned that these, while related to the Brazil nut, are really Sapucaia (Lecythis Pisonis). Pictures here from an article by Scott A Mori:

The Sapucaia on the tree

The Sapucaia pod opened up

On the roadside in Trinidad

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  1. Thanks for these posts. Before this I had never seen the nuts inside the pod. Really beautiful photo. I did see the pods being sold once on the highway by Grand Bazaar. I’d love to see what the tree looks like. Remember reading once that they’re very picky about where they grow, things like their dying if the forests are cut down around them and their relying on a particular bee or was it bats, to be pollinated. Someone in Brazil had started a plantation and then it failed because the pollinators were in the forest and not coming to the trees! So it’s a good sign that they are growing and producing here.

    1. Guanaguanare: the laughing gull on November 6th, 2006 at 2:02 am

  2. I’ll tell you what, that’s a beautiful picture ~ the last one. Well I have no recipe to share that includes these type nuts :-)

    2. Atasha on November 6th, 2006 at 3:19 am

  3. Pretty. Cool. ;-)

    3. ewe_are_here on November 6th, 2006 at 4:19 am

  4. @Guanaguanare – you’re welcome. I read that too; that the nuts only grow in wild forest because of the pollinators.
    @Atasha – thanks :-)
    @ewe_are_here – now we’ve reached the messy part.

    I have learned that perhaps these are not quite the same as regular brazil nuts. Someone visiting my Flickr said they ones that grow in Trinidad are related, but called Monkey Pot/Paradise Nut/Sapucaia Nuts.
    I need to do more research.

    4. chennette on November 6th, 2006 at 2:05 pm

  5. Yeah they are different. The brazil nuts I know have three smooth sides and have roughly the shape of a large peg of garlic or even an orange peg. The ones we have here also taste a little different.

    They are nice photos though. Looks a little sci-fi to me actually. Don’t you think?

    So you mean you couldn’t even try the blow torch even if just to humour me? lol.

    5. Mani on November 6th, 2006 at 5:13 pm

  6. Mani, you buy me a blow torch and I will burn things…

    6. chennette on November 6th, 2006 at 5:17 pm

  7. lol, well now yuh talking.

    7. Mani on November 6th, 2006 at 6:59 pm

  8. CREME BRULEE!

    8. Lilandra, Empress of Chocolate on November 7th, 2006 at 12:16 am

  9. Shouldn’t you need a license to operate one of those things?

    9. ewe_are_here on November 7th, 2006 at 4:27 am

  10. They use them on Ready, Steady, Cook ALL the time. I saw them and have wanted one ever since.

    10. chennette on November 7th, 2006 at 7:43 am

  11. Hey! I actually half-watched that show today, and it’s been ages! They seem to be doing a dessert segment for the last leg… yummy.

    11. ewe_are_here on November 7th, 2006 at 4:55 pm

  12. Yeah I saw cooks using them too. They’re more of a small neat cannister with a nozzle than one of those welder deals.

    12. Mani on November 8th, 2006 at 8:46 am

  13. I was curious when I saw this thing on the highway in Curepe. I investigated and decided to purchase one. Surprise! It began to open the next day. Since then we have bought about 5 more. Amazing how its organized inside. Amazing, gOD IS AMAZING.
    RR Tobago.

    13. r ryan on November 27th, 2011 at 5:41 pm

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