Thai Pickled Star Gooseberry 500g
star
goosberry - มะยม (in Thai) is called Phyllanthus
acidus, and also known as the Otaheite gooseberry, Malay
gooseberry, Tahitian gooseberry, country gooseberry, star
gooseberry, starberry, arbari, West India gooseberry, or
simply gooseberry tree, is one of the trees with edible small yellow
berries fruit in the family Phyllanthaceae. Despite its name, the
plant does not resemble the gooseberry, except for the acidity of its
fruits. It tastes sour and tart. Various
parts of the plant are used for food. In Bangladesh, India and Indonesia, the
cooked leaves are eaten. While
the fruit is eaten fresh, and is sometimes used as flavoring for other dishes
in Indonesia, it is generally regarded as too tart to eat by itself in its
natural form and is processed further. It
is candied in sugar or pickled in salt, used
in chutney, relish or preserves. In the Philippines, it is
used to make vinegar as well as eaten raw, soaked in salt or
vinegar-salt solution and sold along the roadside. It is candied as well,
usually stored in jars with syrup. They make these into a syrup in
Malaysia. Liberally sugared, it is also used to make fruit juice.
In Thailand it is used as an ingredient to make Som tam, to make
pickled, boil in syrup (Ma-Yom Chuam).
