fruitoily · carroty · earthy · waxy · savoury

Tucumã

An orange palm fruit with a stone hard enough to break a blender. Manaus eats the boiled flesh cold, sliced onto tapioca and cheese.

on its own

1.0sour

0.0sweet

2.0savoury

1.0bitter

1.0umami

order · canon first

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

9 pairings for Tucumã.

classic

Sliced onto a hot tapioca crepe with cheese, this is the Manaus breakfast sandwich in full.

classic

Salty squeaky cheese against oily orange flesh, the classic tucumã-com-queijo stack.

common

Cuts a fat-heavy, deep-orange flesh the way citrus cuts any dense oily fruit.

common

A pinch on the boiled flesh is how it is actually eaten at the market stall.

common

Two Amazonian fats; the coconut adds sweetness the tucumã pulp does not have.

uncommon

Heat against a savoury, waxy fruit that otherwise reads as pure fat.

uncommon

Warmth on an earthy fat that carries almost no sugar of its own.

rare

Amazon river shrimp against oily palm flesh, more a savoury course than a fruit one.

wild

Mould salt against a waxy, deep-orange fat, a European answer to the cheese it is already eaten with.