Let me confess I did not know what this was until I saw this picture. Do you know what it is? What is it used for? Where it comes from? Do tell us more about this is you do know? Or, make a guess?
Answer on next page below
Most of our readers had guessed the answer right. Infact I got to learn much more about this fruit from the comments than my own source of information. Here is the answer that I researched. This fruit is called ‘Dodi’ in Sindhi. It is a seasonal fruit grown in shallow waters. I don’t know the Urdu name. But through your informative comments we all did get to learn many other names of this fruit.
The photo above shows a person selling ‘Dodi’ in Larkana on June 20, 2009.
When I first saw this photo, I also thought of their resemblence to shower heads
And here is another photo of a seller in Larkana with Dodi fruit.
In some parts of Punjab these are called “CollDoday”. And there is a famous Punjabi idiom about these “Akhaan ney keh CollDoday” (DO you have eyes or CollDoday). This idiom Normally used when some one cant see the things in front of his eyes.
enjoy,
Atif
owais, i had these at the Sunday family lunch today. Interesting comments earlier as someone mentioned that these are cooked as well. We have them raw after peeling the green cover of the oval-shaped seeds that reveals a soft white and yummy inside. While this is called Pabura, the lotus stem is the Beh which is used more often in cooking than the Pabura. The Beh is cooked as a vegetable dish as well as with meat; there is a mutton curry with Beh and Maythee that is delicious. I have also seen the Beh in Thai cuisine but in its raw form whereas in Sindhi cooking, it is cooked thoroughly
Exactly this is Tulip Pod and it is known as Dodi or sometimes called as “Pa-bur-aa” in Sindh. I like it a lot. Each has some seeds covered in a soft and removable covering, once removed seed can be eaten. Not all of them are of good taste (similar like karwa or meetha badams(almonds)..
It was delight to see this on ATP..