Passon fruit are one of my favorite caribbean fruits. Besides being tart & tasty, the blooms are amazingly cool! Luckily, we have the perfect place for our huge vine on the trellis at the entrance of our house. When passion fruit are ripe they turn yellow and drop to the ground. So, whenever I come home, I find ripe passion fruit on the ground. Lucky me.
Passion fruit can also be found at the local farmers market, specifically the one at Lorainne every Saturday morning. I have never seen them fresh at the supermarket here or stateside, only in a carton in the juice aisle (not nearly as good as fresh juice). I have seen them in Hawaii and am sure they grow Florida or Cali.
Okay now the super simple juice... It makes about 1 gallon.
8 cups of water (more or less)
8 cups of water (more or less)
8 passion fruit (about one cup of pulp)
1/4-1/2 cup of sugar
1. Scoop pulp & seeds into mixer
2. Add water and sugar to the mixer (Add less sugar at first. You can always add more)
3.Pulse on low 20 seconds or so, till the pulp seperates from seeds (the lowest setting on my Kitchen Aid mixer doesnt break up the seeds.
4. Wait a few minutes before pouring a glass. The seeds will drop to the bottom of the mixer.
You can also use a strainer. Passion fruit juice is good by itself, over ice, with rum, vodka, champagne, or mixed with OJ if you like it more sweet. Some passion fruit juice I have bought in the store is overly sweet. To me I think it tastes like a tart version of OJ. Well, better then that. Enjoy!
1. Scoop pulp & seeds into mixer
2. Add water and sugar to the mixer (Add less sugar at first. You can always add more)
3.Pulse on low 20 seconds or so, till the pulp seperates from seeds (the lowest setting on my Kitchen Aid mixer doesnt break up the seeds.
4. Wait a few minutes before pouring a glass. The seeds will drop to the bottom of the mixer.
You can also use a strainer. Passion fruit juice is good by itself, over ice, with rum, vodka, champagne, or mixed with OJ if you like it more sweet. Some passion fruit juice I have bought in the store is overly sweet. To me I think it tastes like a tart version of OJ. Well, better then that. Enjoy!
