This tropical fruit is the star of many fun food & drink recipes
Passion fruit is a small, round fruit with a hard purple casing and a delicious, sweet, and tangy yellow pulp with edible seeds. This fruit flourishes in tropical weather, and you’ll find the fresh fruit in summer with purees and juices available year-round. The sweet-tart flavor of passion fruit is found in drinks, desserts, condiments, and even poultry glazes. It’s a fantastic fruit to play with in the kitchen.
How to eat Passion fruit?
1. Eat it whole
2. Make Passion fruit butter
3. Add it to your Salads
4. Make a Sweet & tangy Salad Dressing
5. Make a Pisco Sour. A blended sweet, tangy & delicious brandy cocktail.
6. Pairs well with Mango & Coconut. Try a home-made ice-cream.
Try Passion fruit butter
A good way to preserve this tropical fruit is by making a creamy passionfruit butter. It is simple to prepare and can be enjoyed on a piece of toast for breakfast, or used as a pastry filling or to ice a cake.
Try Passion fruit Pisco Sour
A Maracuya sour with passion fruit juice, is a fruit-y cocktail with tropical flavors.
- 1 cup raw sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup pisco
- 1/4 cup fresh, frozen, passion fruit juice. To extract the juice from a passion fruit, slice it in half and spoon out the pulp. Warm the pulp in the microwave or on the stovetop (almost to a boil) until it thins and then strain out the seeds. Let cool before using.
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice, from 1 lime
- 1 egg white
- 10 large ice cubes, or about 1 cup crushed ice
Directions
Gather the ingredients. To make the simple syrup, put the sugar and water in a pot and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, remove from the heat, and set aside to cool.Measure the pisco (brandy) into a blender. Add the passion fruit juice and lime juice. Add the simple syrup, egg white, and ice cubes.Blend until the mixture is frothy and the ice is completely crushed and blended. Serve immediately in small tumblers.
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