Terap or in scientific name; artocarpus odoratissimus is a kind of tree fruit from the tree family of jack fruit. Terap is smaller than jack fruit, it has a strong fragrance, sweet-mildly taste and the skin feels like a bristle carpet (that's my opinion).
Terap is also known as 'tarap' at Indonesia, 'marang' at Philippines, 'teureup' at West Java, 'lumok' in Ibanese or 'johey oak' in English. Terap is a very well-known local fruit among Sarawakian, Sabahan and Brunei people, but it is being classified as 'exotic-and-unique' at Peninsular Malaysia. Seriously, I've never bought this fruit when I lived at Shah Alam (but I knew that terap was a display-fruit in MAHA 2008).
This fruit is actually seasonal, you can't find terap every day you want. Mostly, terap season will appear at the end of the year and very rare at Peninsular Malaysia, but now the seed is growing well as a 25 meter tree somewhere at Perak. I guess Peninsular Malaysia now can enjoy this lovely fruit. The taste is quite hard to describe but for me, I loved the sweetness.
And, do you know you can fry the seed (without using oil) and mixed it with a pinch of salt? It tasted like a peanut and you should try it =D
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| This is how terap looks like. Bought it at Serian, Sarawak |
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| This is the seed I collect before clean it |
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| Inside the kuali |
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| The fried-terap seed is ready to served~ |
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| Peel the fried skin first. The black peanut (as you can see it in the picture) tasted better without the skin. |
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Ref>>
http://maribelajar.forumotion.com/t930-buah-tarap-terap-artocarpus-odoratissimus
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terap
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