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How Do You Eat Carob Root?

post #1 of 5
2/3/09 at 8:26am
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Standing in the aisle of the grocers, I saw amid all the nuts and legumes and such a clear plastic box of... carob root.

Carob all ground up is used as a naturally sweet substitute for chocolate.

But -- can you eat the pod itself? Without grinding it up? How?

If you peel open the pod, inside are seeds which, I presume, are to be ground up into carob powder used in baking etc. But within the skin of the pod is a modicum of paste that tastes extremely close to sweet chocolate. Is that what you eat? Do you eat the whole pod? Do you boil this thing? What do you do with it?!



[Please, no doodie jokes!]
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post #2 of 5
2/3/09 at 10:54am

Re: How Do You Eat Carob Root?

Looks more like a seed or pod than a root..

Carob tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some info above, perhaps check out those links for recipes at the bottom..

Jay
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post #3 of 5
2/3/09 at 12:39pm

Re: How Do You Eat Carob Root?

I understand that mountain climbers use those sticky pods to connect lengths of rope together - they are referred to as "carobeaners" IIRC.
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post #4 of 5
2/4/09 at 7:24am

Re: How Do You Eat Carob Root?



Hmm, they're probably cheaper than the real thing! But what are they rated for? I'm light but probably not that light!

Jay
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post #5 of 5
10/3/09 at 5:56pm
My understanding is that the seeds are not to be eaten (at least by people) at all, so you would probably want to remove the seeds prior to any sort of carob preparation. If you are trying to make carob powder, then after removing the seeds and drying out the pod you would need to grind it up. This would include the sweet paste that you encountered. There are also some people who will eat it straight as chips of carob, but this is a less common use for it and usually only as a substitute for chocolate chips.
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