One of my things this year is to try more fruit. I have always been of the opinion that there is not a lot of fruit and the same ones are always around: apples, grapes, strawberries, bananas… I have never been a huge fan of citrus, but discovered earlier this year about the wonders of the mandarin orange. Sweet and juicy, I can eat four or five in one sitting. However, I digress. The first fruit of the year is the Pomelo. These are kind of intimidating because they are not small. This is a hefty fruit and ran me around $6 for one. Not something I would regularly purchase due to its relatively high cost.
I cut into this fruit and was taken aback with the sheer amount of inedible rind. Rind makes up almost 50% of this fruit! It is similar in color to a grapefruit, which the sticker on the outside eluded to. As I hacked away at the inedible rind, I cut a perfectly edible piece. Granted, the edible piece had lost more than half of its original size due to careful trimming. I watched a video to provide guidance in prep, but the variety was different. The video showed one that looked like a big yellow mandarin orange. The chef prepped it by peeling away the rind, which left most of the fruit intact. Much unlike my own.
The texture is just like any citrus you would expect. Very juicy when bit and kind of chewy. The flavor is exquisite. It is much sweeter than an orange and tastes as if it was genetically spliced with a grapefruit. I do not think I have every gone to a juicer and found pomelo juice. I would definitely eat it again. I would try to get someone else to prepare it however.