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12 pomegranate dishes rich in antioxidants

It takes effort to eat, but the pomegranate offers great rewards: In addition to providing a high level of antioxidants (said to help prevent heart disease and cancer), this fruit has jewel-like seeds that add a singular crunch and winey, sweet-sour tang to whatever dishes they grace. Since autumn is prime pomegranate season, we've dreamt up a variety of dishes, both sweet and savory, that show off this fabulous fruit.




Recipes:

Salads

Watercress, Orange, and Avocado Salad

Mache Salad with Blood Oranges, Pistachios, and Pomegranate

Green Leaf Lettuce, Pomegranate, and Almond Salad

Dandelion Salad with Pomegranate Seeds, Pine Nuts, and Roasted Delicata Squash

Main Courses

Striped Bass with Swiss Chard, Chestnuts, and Pomegranate Vinaigrette

Roast Leg Of Lamb with Pomegranate, Cucumber and Mint Salsa

Panfried Pork Chops with Pomegranate and Fennel Salsa

Pomegranate Khoresh

Desserts

Pomegranate Caramel Ice-Cream Sauce

Meringue Petits Fours with Anise Cream and Pomegranate

Pomegranate Gelato

Kiwi-Pomegranate Angel Pies

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Tips:

Look for the Best

Choose pomegranates that have blemish-free, vivid ruby-red skin and are heavy for their size.

Seed Gently

To remove the seeds from a pomegranate, cut the fruit into quarters. Holding the fruit over a bowl, gently loosen seeds with your fingers. While you do this, use caution or don an apron, as pomegranate juice stains.

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Juice Carefully

In a pinch, you can juice pomegranates by pulsing the seeds briefly in a food processor and straining the liquid. (The red pods that encase the seeds contain the juice.) Or wrap a bunch of seeds in cheesecloth, squeeze the cloth over a bowl, and repeat until you have enough juice. (A large pomegranate yields 1/3 to 1/2 cup.)


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  • Habanero♥™'s Avatar
    Posted by Habanero♥™ Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:26am PDT

    Pomegranate, Pomegranate, Pomegranate-Expensive, messy, time consuming AND worth every stained shirt I own. I have been doing them for 4 years now and Everything changes. Does this make any difference clinically? More recent research has found that eight ounces of pomegranate juice daily for three months improved the amount of oxygen getting to the heart muscle of patients with coronary heart disease (American Journal of the College of Cardiology, Sept. 2005).

    Investigators are also excited about the possibility that pomegranate compounds might prevent prostate cancer or slow its growth. In mice, treatment with pomegranate extract delayed the development of tumors and improved survival (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sept. 26, 2005). Other research reports suggest that pomegranate juice might help reduce the risk of breast cancer.

    Both my cholesterol and my blood pressure are so normal now and I attribute this to the Pomegranate. I process the fruit in the summer and freeze so as to have access to it throughout the year.

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  • Irma's Avatar
    Posted by Irma Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:21am PDT

    My dad has a pomegranate tree in the back yard! Love it!

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  • odette's Avatar
    Posted by odette Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:32pm PDT

    i believe that eating healthy is the best way in these time and age i am from belize central america and we do not grow the pomegranate tree in our country

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  • nida's Avatar
    Posted by nida Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:25am PDT

    eating food riched in antioxidant will giveway to a healthy living because it will protect our body from free radicals that causes abnormalities in our body.if we could take this kind of food daily then we will maintain healthy cells in our body thus preventing us from getting sick.

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