Passion Fruit

Purple and Granadilla at the top. Golden at the bottom.

Purple, Granadilla, Golden

 

 Juicing the passion fruit and tasting the seeds

Chocolate Passion Fruit Profiteroles

I found 3 varieties of passion fruit at the local grocery store. The boys observed each one, sliced them with their kid's chef knife, scooped out the seeds and extracted the juice. The juice was used in the making of chocolate passion fruit pastry cream which filled chocolate profiteroles I made this week. We also ate the pastry cream spread on scones for breakfast. 

They tasted each variety of seeds as well as the juice blended all together which was sweet and tart. We talked about Aunty Eri's passion fruit flowers and also discussed other flavors that pair well with it such as mango, chocolate or coconut. They were surprised that the seeds were the part that were eaten and that the rest is thrown away since a fruit like apples, the skin and flesh are eaten and the seeds thrown away.  They described passion fruit seeds as crunchy, sour and sweet.