passionfruit tips and ideas
freezing
Passionfruit vines are less common these days but we still get friends bring us buckets of them in the height of the season and freeze as much pulp as we possibly can. We also ask our fruit and veg man to watch for the lowest price and buy boxes of them. Certainly commercial frozen passionfruit is a convenient solution but we find we need to put a percentage of fresh pulp into otherwise it seems to lose its tarty edge.
passionfruit sauce
makes about 500ml if you strain off the seeds and 1L if you don’t - keeps indefinitely when refrigerated in an airtight container
Weigh the passionfruit pulp and add half the weight caster sugar, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 2 to 3 minutes until the sugar is dissolved and the syrup thickened.
Your call but we like to add a little freshness back into the syrup with a very small amount of fresh sieved passionfruit juice>
tip — We make bigger batches in the microwave as it burns very easily and the microwave solves that!
try a really fabulous passionfruit recipe using it in a savoury context
courtesy Southern Rocklobster Limited, Australia and Ann Oliver click here
pavlova with passionfruit
and maybe mango is an Australian staple dessert, add passionfruit ice cream and we promise they will kiss your feet!
and…
yes we know you want the recipe for the pav — it’s on the way!
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