How to Eat Passion Fruit

By Kitchenistic

14 Nov 2019

Becoming much more popular and increasingly available in stores, the choice of eating a passion fruit are a sweet and delicious option for the more daring of us. It has a name which sounds very exotic and can add to the mystery of knowing exactly how to eat it. But once you have mastered how to eat passion fruit you will be enjoying them for years to come.

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Where Passion Fruit Comes From

The passion fruit is a native plant to Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina which has now travelled worldwide due to its taste and versatility. The passion fruit plant has exotic flowers and beautiful tasting fruit. Passion fruits grow on luscious climbing plants and they are on the whole grown in the hot tropical areas. The main colors found on the passion fruit are purples and yellows and they will differ in size from a small orange to the similar size of a small melon. Typically, they smell fragrant and they should be sweet in taste. The purple passion fruit taste the sweetest and will be more juicier and more sweet-smelling than yellow passion fruit.

Selecting the Best Passion Fruit

When you are in the store choosing your passion fruits there are a few guidelines to follow to help to make certain that you pick the best passion fruit. You should be selecting fruit that feels relatively heavy when you pick it up. You also need to ensure that it is yellow or purple or in color and there are no signs of it going brown. The passion fruits skin can be either wrinkled or smooth, but you should know that the more wrinkled the skin of the fruit then the riper it is. Ensure that there are no marks on the skin or any bruising on the fruit or you should put them back if they have any green spots. If you pick up a green passion fruit, then this is an easy way to tell that the fruit is not yet ripe.

How to Eat Passion Fruit

Before you do anything else you must first wash your passion fruit meticulously to get rid of any pesticides or bacteria that may have lingered on the fruit. Using a sharp kitchen knife, you will then be able to simply cut the passion fruit in half. To make it even easier use a serrated knife which may go all the way through the tough outer layer of skin better. Once cut open, you will then be able to use a spoon to scoop out the inner pulp and seeds of the fruit which are the bits that you can eat. Try to circumvent getting any of the skin or the white insides of the fruit as this will usually be extremely bitter in taste. That is it, once you know how to eat a passion fruit it becomes easy and you can go and eat your passion fruit directly from the skin.

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Different Ways to Eat Passion Fruit

A passion fruit despite its appearance is not that hard to eat, but with that being said it will not feel as simple as just biting into a banana. And there are different ways of using up the insides of your passion fruit as well as simple just eating it.

Eat it all: You can eat the pulp and the seeds. Not everyone likes to eat the seeds, but they are completely are edible, although many people find that they can taste slightly sour. Scoop out the seeds with a spoon and put them straight into your bowl. To make the seeds taste sweeter you can sprinkle a little sugar or sweetener onto them to cut down on the sharpness. You can also add passion fruit seeds to fruit and green salads where they need an extra taste kick.
Make passion fruit juice: If you want to save the seeds for someone else to eat you can strain your passion fruit seeds from the pulp which will leave you with a juice. Then you can basically strain your passion fruit pulp through a sieve to get pure fruit juice. Make sure that you push your pulp with the back of a large spoon through the sieve to get all the juice out. Passion fruit juice is delightful to drink on its own over ice or you can add the juice to a fruit smoothie.
Make a passion fruit coulis: A coulis is what people put on our deserts as a flavoursome type of sauce. It is usually a puree made from strained fruit made without the use of the fruit rind. A passion fruit coulis is fashioned by simmering a combination of sugar and passion fruit pulp for a few minutes on the stove and then straining away the seeds. You could also add vanilla extract or other spices of your choice to the pulp prior to boiling it for additional flavors. You can use your homemade passion fruit coulis to spoon into your natural yogurt for a vibrant tangy taste. Passion fruit coulis is also delicious when poured over ice cream, and it can be used in your next passion fruit cheesecake recipe.
Passion fruit jelly: The flavor of the tropics can make your breakfast pop by adding some passion fruit jelly to your morning muffin. To make up a jelly is fairly simple as you just boil your passion fruit pulp with sugar and add lemon juice to take away and acidity. You could also use other fruits too like pineapple or coconut to add to your passion fruit jelly.

If you have not embarked on an adventure yet and do not know how to eat passion fruit, then do not worry, you are not the only one, but now is the time as you may be missing out. Passion fruits have so many healthy nutrients and they have such an amazing and unique flavor, there has never been a better time to learn how to eat passion fruit.