Passion fruit
The passion fruit
but it is rarely eaten plain as a dessert.
But this fruit is full of benefits essential to our health.
Description:
It is a vigorous vine, woody at base, developing stems about 6 feet long.
The evergreen leaves are membranous, deeply lobed and serrulate-glandulée margin.
The inflorescence is a cyme which reduced the central flower abortion, the stalk of a flower side gives a spin and the other flower is developing normally.
The pedicel 4 to 5 cm in length is:
3 large green bracts,
5 green sepals on the outside,
5 white petals,
a wreath of purple and white filaments,
column 1 to 2 cm high (the androgynophore) for
completed by the five stamens the anthers turned down
and an ovary obovoid 8 mm in height topped by three or four white styles, united at the base.
The flower as a whole made of 4 to 7 cm in diameter.
The pasion fruit is a purple berry maturity of 3 to 4 cm in diameter, deep purple, with many black seeds, surrounded by an edible aril. It is edible and sweet flavor, shape flavicarpa is larger, yellow in color and taste more acidic.
The origin of the passion fruit:
The passion fruit is oval, her skin is yellow, coral or brown depending on the variety. Inside there is a juicy and flavorful. The appearance of the pulp is slightly gelatinous brown seeds with small crunchy to the bite.
It comes from Brazil, but is now also cultivated elsewhere as in Central America, Asia, Africa or the Caribbean. There are about 400 species of this treasure taste.
The benefits of passion fruit:
The passion fruit provides 62 calories per 100 grams, so it is a medium energy fruit. He brings a smaller amount of carbohydrates, compared to many other fruits.
But his taste remains sweet, because it consists mainly of fructose, which has a strong sweetness.
The passion fruit has a high fiber content (more than the average for other fruits) which helps to improve digestion. It also provides many minerals such as potassium, magnesium, iron.
About its intake of vitamins, the passion fruit contains high levels of vitamin C and also vitamin A and B.
Recipe of passion fruit
Lime and passion fruit pie.
Ingredients for 8 people:
for the pastry:
180g flour
90g salted butter
30g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
2 ounces of water
For the filling:
140g salted butter
240g of sugar
60g cornflour
3 eggs
3 limes
8 passion fruit (in keeping two for decoration)
18 cl water.
Prepare the pastry:
in a bowl place the flour, dig a well and remove the salted butter cut into pieces, sugar, egg yolk, water and salt. Mix with your fingertips. Let stand 1 hour pie cool.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Spread the batter into your pan and prick with a fork. Place a baking paper and cover with ceramic balls or (other). Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
The filling:
Wash and remove the zest of limes. The press and keep the juice. Cut the passion fruit, remove the pulp and seeds. In a saucepan, combine water, sugar, cornstarch, eggs, zest and juice of lime, pulp and seeds of passion fruit.
Mix well and bring to a boil while stirring small. The mixture will thicken. Remove from heat, pass through a sieve to remove seeds of passion fruit because when cooked they crack under the tooth that is unpleasant. Add to finish the salted butter cut into small pieces. Mix well.
Put the cream inside the pie, and after the pulp of both passion fruit and some lemon zest.
Enjoy this pie with lime and passion fruit.