How to Remove Pomegranate Seeds

Published on Thursday, January 3, 2008, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

How to Remove Pomegranate Seeds

Getting seeds out of pomegranates can be a messy prospect. Wrap yourself in protective clothing and get banging.

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  • DiveFan has the right idea. I had it too, honest, but DiveFan (and meowzebub, too) got here first. I don't remember where I first learned it, but IMO it's easy and leaves both cook and kitchen clean. It made me enthusiastic again about a fruit I love but used to pass on only beause it was such a pain to prep.

    Underwater, folks, H2O is the way to go!

  • I score the hard skin and pull the pome apart to minimize the staining from slicing in half.
    For a few seeds (e.g., garnishing a dish), the whacking method is fine.
    However, should I need a lot of seeds or want to work more than one pome, I use the underwater method. Seeds fall to the bottom, pith floats, and hands (and everything else within squirt range) remain stainfree.

    BTW, learned both...+READ

    I score the hard skin and pull the pome apart to minimize the staining from slicing in half.
    For a few seeds (e.g., garnishing a dish), the whacking method is fine.
    However, should I need a lot of seeds or want to work more than one pome, I use the underwater method. Seeds fall to the bottom, pith floats, and hands (and everything else within squirt range) remain stainfree.

    BTW, learned both techniques from Jacques Pepin via PBS. (Many years ago, he was under water; but lately, he's whacking).-COLLAPSE

  • I prefer the method advocated at http://pomegranates.org/ where you separate the arils in a bowl full of water. It pretty much prevents stray juice from staining the immediate vicinity.