Toddy Palm Fruit recipe | Asian palmyra palm Fruit Juice Recipe | Sweet Dishes From Ripe Palm Fruit

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Published 2016-08-02
Toddy Palm Fruit recipe Asian palmyra palm Fruit Juice Sweet Dishes From Ripe Palm Fruit

Borassus flabellifer, the Asian palmyra palm, toddy palm, or sugar palm, is native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, including Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. It is reportedly naturalized in Pakistan, Socotra, and parts of China.

The conventional way this fruit is eaten is when the outer casing is still unripe while the seeds are eaten as the fruit. But if the entire fruit is left to ripen, the fibrous outer layer of the palm fruits can also be eaten raw, boiled, or roasted. When this happens, the fruit takes a purple-blackish hue and tastes similar to a Mango. The skin is also eaten as part of the fruit similar to how mango skins are often consumed along with the fruit. Bengali People have perfected the art of making various sweet dishes with the yellowish viscous fluidic substance obtained from a ripe palm fruit. These include Mustard oil fried Taler Bora,tastes best when fried in Sunflower oil (তালের বড়া), or mixed with thickened milk to form Taal-kheer (তাল ক্ষীর).

The Borassus flabellifer plant and fruit is known as Nungu(நுங்கு) in Tamil, Taati Munjalu (తాటి ముంజలు) in Telugu, Taale Hannu or Taale ningu(ತಾಳೆ ಹಣ್ಣು / ತಾಳೆ ನಿಂಗು) in Kannada, Tal gaha (තල් ගහ) in Sinhala, Tala in Oriya, Tnaot (Khmer: ត្នោត) in Khmer, Thốt Nốt in Vietnamese, Luntar in Bahasa Sūg (Tausug), Tari in Hindi, Tal (তাল) in Bengali, Pana Nangu(ml:പനം നൊങ്ക്)in Malayalam, Munjal in Urdu, Lontar in Indonesian, Siwalan in Javanese, Ta'al in Madurese, Tan (th:ตาล) in Thai, Akadiru by the East Timorese, Tao in Divehi, Tadfali (pronunciation variations are Tad-fali or Taadfali) in Gujarati, Targula in Konkani, Tadgola (ताडगोळा) in Marathi, Myanmar, Htan Bin , and sometimes Ice-apple in British English especially by the immigrants living in India. The fruit measures 4 to 7 inches in diameter, has a black husk, and is borne in clusters. The top portion of the fruit must be cut off to reveal the sweet jelly seed sockets, translucent pale-white, similar to that of the lychee but with a milder flavor and no pit. The sweet jelly seed sockets occur in combinations of two, three or four seeds inside the fruit. The jelly part of the fruit is covered with a thin, yellowish-brown skin. These are known to contain watery fluid inside the fleshy white body. These seed sockets have been the inspiration behind certain sweets Sandesh called Jalbhara (জলভরা) found in Bengal.

All Comments (21)
  • @drps1214
    Its really tasty....I can feel the aroma & unique sweet taste of this steamed TAL fruit pulp....& dont want to make insensitive comments on flies...they have no luxury & knowledge of hygiene...But they have skill to survive...they r preparing & njoying their own food...that's all.
  • @zahidas5472
    hamare yaha use tal bolte hainye bohut tasty hota hai,fly is me hota hain but thanks for the recipe ye mujhe mere bachpan yaad dala di thanks
  • @trestree7839
    Awesome recipe I want to eat it once atleast.....
  • @OMKAARAM108
    super bro.my grandma also used to make the same way in my childhood.very very tasty.thank you for the video
  • @MahaswinSahasra
    Ah I love the smell....remembering my childhood days, my grandma will burn the whole fruit it in wooden sticks fire and the smell, tastes heaven
  • @user-RRM
    We also prepare different types of pitha(cake) from this fruit... Its smell is so sweet I can smell from your video. Love from Odisha, India
  • so this is a cake make from palmyah fruit....shats the tasre like ? wow
  • @babalye588
    this is tal penatu. helt. sri lankan people make this north side very very yame
  • @shobamaliga7342
    🙏 this fruit was my favourite one when I was in tamilnadu in 1970 it's so delicious until now I cannot forget the taste.
  • @HakunaMatata009
    I can smell the fragrance just by looking at this video. Oh.. I miss those silly yummy cake made out this fruit. :)
  • @nayanpune4971
    It's so much of hard work , and off ourselves this taste awesome ..it's my red soil creation....