On My Plate: Breadfruit & Minced Beef

Cheesy & creamy breadfruit with meat filling (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

On My Plate (OMP) is a series in which I share with you what I’m eating. I like simple everyday food. OMP features things put together because I need to clean out the fridge or pantry; things made in a hurry; making do with what is there; and things I have seen, heard, or read about and decided to give a try (that are not complicated). It is also about what I am having when I don’t feel like cooking.

On My Plate is some leftover boiled breadfruit stuffed with ground/minced beef.

If you ask me, I won’t say that I love breadfruit but it is something that I appreciate because of the many ways in which it can be prepared, whether sweet or savoury; baked, boiled, fried or roasted. When I buy or am gifted a breadfruit, the first thing I make is breadfruit fries, not to be confused with crisp breadfruit chips. After cutting a portion for fries, the rest of the breadfruit is boiled in lightly salted water, cooled and refrigerated for whatever I want to make or feel like making.