frutade zanahoria · de albaricoque · cerosa · terrosa · dulce

Aguaje

Con escamas como una piña de pino, anaranjado como zanahoria por dentro. El árbol entero es un mercado: fruta, aceite, techo de paja, vino.

on its own

1.0sour

2.0sweet

0.0savoury

0.0bitter

0.0umami

order · canon first

1 of these 9 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

9 pairings for Aguaje.

classic

Scraped and sweetened, the pulp becomes a doce thick enough to spread.

classic

Blended cold, sweet milk pushes a carroty, waxy fruit fully toward dessert.

common

Fat softens the wax the pulp is naturally full of.

common

Warm spice sits on a carrot-and-apricot fruit the way it would on a pumpkin pie.

common

Floral sugar over an already sweet orange pulp deepens it rather than doubling it.

uncommon

Molasses spirit against a waxy orange fruit, steeped for the buriti wine some communities still make.

uncommon

Dairy fat against orange-tinted wax; the ice cream version leans on this completely.

rare

Two Amazonian fats, one from a fruit and one from a seed, closer than they first taste.

wild

The flavour resemblance is not a coincidence; side by side the fruit and the root read as siblings.