How to eat passion fruit

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Tips for choosing and peeling a fruit, as well as three simple but delicious dishes from it.

How to choose passion fruit

Ripe fruits have a dark peel, depending on the variety, yellow-orange or red-purple. To the touch, the skin is soft, wrinkled, sometimes even with small cracks.

A color that is too pale indicates that it is too early to eat passion fruit. A brown rind with deep dents and cracks is a sign of overripe. This passionfruit is not very tasty.

Such fruits will be the most juicy. Photo:

Passion fruit with such a skin will be delicious, but it is better to leave it for a couple of days so that it ripens. Photo:

These fruits are very overripe. Photo:

Another criterion is weight. When choosing, it is better to dwell on heavier fruits: their pulp will be riper and juicier. But the smell when buying will not help. Through the dense skin, it is almost not felt.

If all the fruits in the store have an even, smooth and faded peel, you can not refuse the purchase. You just have to wait a few days before trying an exotic treat. During this time, the fruit should be stored in a paper bag at room temperature.

How to peel passion fruit

Cope with the fruit is not difficult. You just need to cut it in two with a knife and pull out the pulp with a teaspoon.

There are a lot of edible seeds in the juicy pulp. If you don't like their taste, you can rub the tender mass through a sieve.

What to cook with passionfruit

The pulp of this exotic fruit is aromatic, sweet or sour, depending on the variety.

1. Passion fruit lemonade

Ingredients

• 6 macacuya fruits;
• 600 ml of water;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Preparation

Cut the fruit in half and remove the pulp. Fold in a blender, add water and sugar. Whisk and strain through a sieve. You can leave some seeds in the drink. Serve lemonade with ice cubes and mint.

2. Panna cotta with passionfruit

Ingredients

• 2½ sheets of gelatin;
• 200 ml of cold water;
• 8 passionfruit;
• 200 ml of milk;
• 300 ml heavy cream (from 35% fat);
• 80 g sugar;
• 1 tablespoon caster sugar.

Preparation

Soak gelatin in cold water. Extract the pulp from four passionfruit fruits. Combine milk with cream, pour half into a saucepan and heat slightly over low heat.

Add the sugar along with the passionfruit pulp and continue cooking, stirring constantly. Do not bring to a boil. When sugar dissolves, remove from heat.

Squeeze out the gelatin and place it in the same saucepan. Stir until completely dissolved. Then strain the liquid through a sieve and mix with the remaining milk mixture. Pour into molds and refrigerate for 4-6 hours or longer.

Remove the pulp from the remaining fruit and mix with the powdered sugar. Rub through a sieve, and then mix with a tablespoon of seeds. Pour the resulting sauce over the dessert before serving.

3. Quick cheesecake with passionfruit

Ingredients

• 150 g gingerbread cookies;
• 40 g butter;
• 4 tablespoons of powdered sugar;
• 300 g cream cheese;
• 200 ml heavy cream (from 35% fat);
• 6 passion fruit.

Preparation

Grind the cookies in a blender or crush them with a rolling pin. Combine with melted butter and a tablespoon of powdered sugar. Put in a mold, flatten and press down with a spoon, then leave in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.

Whip the cheese with the cream, the remaining icing sugar and the pulp of five passionfruit. Spoon the mixture onto the cookie mass. Decorate the top with the pulp of the remaining fruit. Refrigerate until serving.