Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis in the Family Moraceae) is a fruit native to East Indian and Pacific islands that has been widely planted in tropical regions everywhere.
Breadfruit is a staple fruit across much of the South Pacific, spread by Polynesian people across the Southern Seas during their long sojourns.
Breadfruit:
Breadfruit was also introduced to Jamaica from its native Tahiti in 1793 by the infamous Captain Bligh. The breadfruit is a large green fruit, usually about 10 inches in diameter, with a pebbly green skin and potato-like flesh.
breadfruit = panapen = pana de pepita Notes: This is the plant that the H.M.S. Bounty was carrying in the South Pacific when its crew mutinied.
Breadfruit: This large, round, soccer-ball sized fruit is the staple starch in many Caribbean dishes. It has the flavor of a potato, and the texture of freshly baked bread.
Breadfruit - The exterior of these melon-sized round fruits is covered with hundreds of scaly bumps. Unripe, they are green and their flesh resembles a potato--hard, white, and starchy.
breadfruit - Although it is a fruit, it's light yellow flesh has the starchy consistency of unripe potatoes, which makes it seem more like a vegetable weighing between two to five pounds.
breadfruit or sweet potato chunks, to taste (optional)
Preparation method
Cut the pumpkin in half, then into wedges. Peel and deseed each wedge and cut the pumpkin flesh into 2.5cm/1in cubes.
breadfruit The fruit of a tree native to the Pacific; large, round, and starchy, it is eaten boiled or baked; sometimes confused with its blander-tasting relative, jackfruit ...
William Bligh, Cook's sailing master, was given command of HMS Bounty in 1787 to sail to Tahiti and return with breadfruit. Bligh is most known for the mutiny of his crew which resulted in his being set adrift in 1789. (See: Mutiny on the Bounty).
A large oval fruit native to India and Malaysia that grows on a tree related to the breadfruit tree. It is one of the largest of all fruits grown with some specimens as large as 36 inches in length with a weight close to 100 pounds.
Related to the breadfruit in the mulberry family, it has thick flesh with a flavor suggestive of a pineapple and banana with edible seeds. Can be used as a starchy vegetable when green; once ripe, used as a dessert or dried.
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A large fruit related to the fig and the breadfruit. This fruit, indigenous to Africa, Brazil, and Southeast Asia, which weighs up to 100 pounds, is used in desserts. Jackrabbit ...
Esi Fafao: baked papaya stuffed with beef
Palu Sami: taro leaves baked in coconut cream
Pee Pee: coconut cream
Poi Olu: breadfruit poi
Povi Masima: salted beef brisket
Taufolo: mashed breadfruit and coconut milk ...
In the kingdom of Fansur, on the western coast of Sumatra, Marco Polo encountered a food made from the starchy flour of the fruit of either the breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis syn. A. communis) or the sago tree ...
 See also: Fruit, Bread, Cooking, Roast, Round
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