Origin & Heritage
Two old shahtoot trees near the farmhouse well, the kind every Jharkhand village used to have before they were cut for timber.
Seasonal Fruits
Fresh Mulberry
Three Weeks a Year
Three weeks a year, and it cannot be shipped far. If you see it listed, order it - by the time you think about it again the window has closed.
What It Eats
Two old trees by the farmhouse well. Nothing sprayed, nothing fed.
How It Is Raised
Hand-picked in the morning and moved the same day - the fruit is too delicate for anything else.
Why It Is Worth It
One of the few fruits with real iron content, plus resveratrol and anthocyanins that survive only in genuinely fresh fruit.
Nutrition
About 43 kcal per 100 g.
36 mg / 100 g
Vitamin C
1.85 mg / 100 g
Iron
43 kcal / 100 g
Calories
March-April
Season
At a Glance
- Harvest window of barely 3 weeks
- Rare fruit source of dietary iron
- Rich in resveratrol and anthocyanins
- Delivered within hours of picking
Recipes
Shahtoot Compote
25 min
Makes 1 jar
Ingredients
- 500 g mulberries
- 100 g sugar
- Juice of half a lemon
- 1 small piece of cinnamon
Method
- 1 Rinse very gently - mulberries collapse if handled hard.
- 2 Simmer with sugar, lemon and cinnamon on low heat for 15 minutes, stirring rarely.
- 3 Skim, cool, and bottle. It keeps about two weeks in the fridge.
- 4 The season is three weeks long; this is how you make it last a little past that.
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