Neem Fruit uses and recipes

Dried neem or margosa fruit (or drupes) should be soaked in water overnight to reconstitute. 

Fresh Neem fruit (or drupes) look similar to olives. They have a thin outer skin, a yellow, sweet-ish flesh and a single embedded seed. Neem oil is extracted from the fruit kernel. The fruits are eaten fresh or cooked, or prepared as a dessert or lemonade-type drink. They are often eaten as a pre-meal appetizer. The fruit is bitter-sweet and traditionally used to help treat haemorrhoids, intestinal worms, urinary tract disorders, bloody nose, phlegm, eye disorders, diabetes, wounds, (and leprosy!).

A traditional agricultural practice involves the production of neem tea. The seeds are dried, crushed and soaked in water overnight to produce a liquid pesticide that can be applied directly to crops. Crushed seed kernels are also used as a dry pesticide application, especially to control stem borers on young plants (see pfaf.org)