What do you do with Passionfruit

[mlgb]

What do you do with fresh passionfruit? I've got a garbagebagful.

Other than mixing with OJ, using on yogurt, as salad dressing and when grilling meat and fish.

No pie or cake recipes!.

[curiousbaker]

A spoonful of passionfruit seeds makes any tropical fruit salad a lot better. They're also great in a champagne cocktail. I've tasted, but never made, passionfruit curd. There must be online recipes. It's great.

[Karl S]

Mail them to me.

[Sam Fujisaka]

I learned somthing at a dinner in Rome. Take fruit like passionfruit, hollow out the pulp, make a sorbet from each fruit, refill in the husk, freeze, serve. The trick is making the sorbets to look like the original insides of each fruit you use. Bit of work but waaay worth it.

[mlgb]

Thanks for all the ideas. Actually I am in Long Beach,California. A friend has one vine and it has overtaken his sideyard wall. January is peak season here. We do an annual trade, persimmons for passionfruit!

Persimmons I just freeze whole, then eat them slightly thawed. I tried airdrying them but that didn't work, next year I will try the oven.

[Candy]

Juice it and then mix juice with rum and club soda. A wonderful refreshing drink

[leanneabe]

Pavlova! The tartness of passionfruit is perfect with the sweetness of pavlova.

I'd also go for making a sorbet or ice cream out of it. Other than that, I'd definitely freeze the pulp so that you can use it throughout the year.

[rabaja]

It's really good over ice cream or sorbet too. You can use it straight or make a light, clear caramel sauce and whisk in the passionfruit at the end, seeds and all. Stain if you like, but add back some seeds, they're pretty and offer a nice texture.
Last summer I was lucky enough to play with an abundance of fresh passionfruit in Hawaii. Wish we could get it like that here in Northern CA.
A panna cotta lends itself well to the flavor too, even if you just ladle the sauce over the top.
Where are you, anyway?

[morebubbles]

I'd freeze the pulp only. Make juice, ice cream etc later (or now!!)

[orangewasabi]

a GARBAGEBAGFULL?! lucky you! are you in Aus or NZ?

when we were in Sydney and overrun with passionfruit, we'd take out the innards, fill up plastic containers and freeze it. then eat it with a spoon as a midnight snack.