Monday, May 7, 2012

Fenesi

When BJ and Pastor Oloo returned from western Kenya, they brought back a large tropical fruit that we had never seen before.  It is oblong and over a foot in length.  It is called Fenesi.  Pastor Oloo gave us some and showed us how to eat it.

Here is some of it cut into pieces.  This was only a third of it!


The yellow is the only part that you eat.


You pull the yellow pieces off the fruit (not real easy), push the seed out, and eat it the yellow piece.  It tastes somewhere between a banana and a pineapple.

Yellow part with its seed.  The seed was inside the yellow part.
We all three really liked it.

Seth is signing "delicious".
* Today I am going to try making ugali for supper.  It will be my first time to make it.  I will also make sukuma wiki (greens) and Kenyan stew to go with the ugali.  We'll see how it goes!


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kenyan kids love ugali mixed with maziwa lala (mala) and sugar. Grown ups eat the ugali separate and drink the sugared Maziwa lala (nice and cold) from a glass.

www.babyhomepages.net/tenlittleinions said...

I always read your site, but often my connection is too slow to comment.

We love that fruit too we know it by the name of Jackfruit. It is a mess to cut and clean after but oh so good. We love the smell too.

A Christian Homemaker said...

What interesting fruit! I have never heard of it. Looks kinda like pineapple, does it taste like it?

Jessi said...

It tastes a little like a banana and a little like a pineapple. Somewhere in between the two.

momto9 said...

Thats very interesting!!! At first I thought it was Durian

Sarah McKendree said...

I'm a little late reading this post! As soon as I saw it though, I thought, "Wow! Jackfruit - in Kenya!" I'll have to search for it here in Peru!