These pretty pink tamarinds grow on the roadsides everywhere in📍Pailin, Cambodia. It was the end of the season but many people were still harvesting and it was so neat to learn how this fruit is collected from very tall and thorny trees 🌳
Pink tamarinds (Pithecellobium dulce) are not part of the tamarind family, but in Cambodia they are called Ampeltuek អំពិលទឹកផ្អែម, or sweet water tamarinds, and in Thailand they are called Makham Si Chomphu มะขามสีชมพู, or literally pink tamarinds 💕
These tall thorny trees belong in the legume family and their spiraling bean pods have a fleshy, grainy meat that tastes something like green peas.
As they ripen on the tree, the bean pods begin to unravel and loosen, dropping the edible fruit on the ground. So people have to harvest the intact fruits early using poles or sticks with hooks. The man who helped us with this video used a long pole with a crossbar to twist the branches around and yank them off the tree, dropping the thorny sticks and their fruits to the ground to harvest.
Next we need to learn how to prepare and eat this fruit ! lf you have any preferred recipes please make sure to share them in the comments below 👇
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