We have discovered the wonders of cooked cashew fruit because they absorb flavours really well and they have the texture of chicken breast.  Cashew fruit can be eaten raw but tends to have tannins in them which stops you from eating too much of them.  Cooking this fruit in sugar helps to off-set the tannin taste.

We had some left over roast ham so I came up with this recipe: Glazed Cashew Fruit and Ham with Basmati Rice.

After eating this, we both agreed that the cashew fruit was worth eating.  In previous years, we have just let this fruit drop to the ground and rot…what a waste!  The only problem is that there seems to be a health community of pacas (gibnuts) feasting on the fruit as soon as they drop to the ground.  This means that we have to get up at the crack of dawn to collect the fruit before all the critters (including doggie) get them!!