Here is how I prepare passion fruit purée within minutes at home without fancy kitchen equipment.
The process is super simple, and you can use your fruit purée in drinks, cakes, dessert and sauces.
TL;DR
Passion fruit purée is the strained fruit pulp without the seeds. Passion fruit pulp, to compare, is the raw, spoonable content from the inside of the fruit.
Incidentally, passion fruit purée can be the raw-strained pulp, which can contain the fruit flesh, or you can further process it by blending it smooth and by sweetening it.
I don't do the blending nor do I like to sweeten my purée because I like it with some natural flesh and without sugar. Therefore, my instructions are limited to this process.
Ingredient Notes
You will need either fresh passion fruit or passion fruit pulp.
We grow our own passion fruits, and they drop and ripen very randomly. Therefore, I will cut them open, scoop out the pulp whenever they are ready, to collect and freeze the batch of passion fruit pulp.
In any case, you will need passion fruit pulp to prepare passion fruit purée.
Tip: Passion Fruits are ripe when they are wrinkled and not smooth.
Process Overview
Step 1
Cut your passion fruits into half and scoop and collect the pulp in a bowl.
Step 2
Place a large fine mesh strainer over a bowl and pour the pulp into the strainer.
Push the pulp through the strainer with a silicone spatula (or tablespoon).
Step 3
Once you are left with just the seeds, discard the seeds and ensure that you don't waste any purée trapped in the fine mesh strainer (we don't waste precious passion fruits). Use your purée however you see fit.
📖 Recipe
How to make Passion Fruit Purée
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Passion Fruit Pulp *see Notes for fruit quantity
Instructions
- Cut each passion fruit into half and scoop out the pulp. Collect the pulp in a bowl.2 Cups Passion Fruit Pulp
- Place a large fine mesh strainer over a bowl. Pour the pulp into the strainer.
- The passion fruit seeds will collect at the top. Push the purée through the strainer with the help of a silicone spatula. Do that until all the pulp is in the bowl below.
- Discard the seeds and clean the strainer. Don't waste the purée on the strainer.
- Use your purée in another recipe or freeze it in batches to use another day.
Notes
Equipment
- Fine-Mesh Strainer to strain the pulp
- Mixing Bowl to collect the purée
- Silicone Spatula to push the pulp through the strainer
Nutrition
Uses
You can use your passion fruit purée creatively in your kitchen. I used it in a recent passion fruit date chutney.
Here are some more ideas:
- Seedless Passion Fruit Jam
- Passion Fruit Iced Green Tea
- Passion Fruit Soda
Storing
Strained passion fruit purée can be stored in batches in the freezer (this is what I like to do). That way you can take out a batch, thaw and use it for a recipe whenever you need it.
Smaller frozen batches thaw faster.
You can keep the strained purée to cool in your fridge too for up to 5 days.
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