How do you crack the shell of the buah keluak?

Answer 1

Use a nut cracker on the soft area of the buah keluak(known as "nut") , put hard pressure on the soft area to crack open to make an opening.

Use toothpicks to pick the shell's fragments out from the nut's interior.

Use warm water to clean your fingers after several picking of the shell's fragements , just for hygenic's purpose in food handling or use a polytthene's glove when handling the nut to prevent your hand's perspiration contaminating the nuts.

Before opening up the nuts for cooking,wash the exterior of the nuts with a new toothbrush several times to get rid of the grime or dust on the shell,next- soak the nuts with cold tap water for at least a month to neuralize the poisionous nature of the nut.

Boil the nuts for at least half an hour over a stove to neutalize again the poisionous nature of the nuts and to cook the contents of the nuts.

Cool the nuts before making the nut's openings, to take out the content to be mixed with meat for better texture and taste(optional).

If you not ready to go into preparing the buah keluak's dish, frozen the nuts in the freezer to preserve before cooking to prevent the nuts becomes "stale" or "bad" to eat.

Careful preparation of the dish should be strictly adhered because actually buah keluak is a very "dangerous nut" to consume if not processing the nuts with care, and no short cuts to preparing the dish is allowed.