Come May each year the grass below them would be a carpet of fallen feijoas and we would give them away by the supermarket bag fill. I would just leave them on peoples doorsteps, and even then there seemed to be too many.
A few years ago we cut two down and we still get a bumper crop that I find a challenge to deal with. Ours are not large fruit like some but they are just as nice.
The trees flower at Christmas time and they look similar to the New Zealand Christmas tree - The Pohutukawa.
Over the years I have collected many recipes to use them up and have even started inventing my own.
Tonight for desert we had one of these. A very simple desert of poached feijoas in orange juice.
Poached Feijoas
Peel and slice feijoas lengthwise. Cover the base of a non-stick pan and pour enough orange juice (I use bottled orange drinking juice) to half cover the fruit - about 1 cm deep.
Sprinkle with a little sugar - about a heaped teaspoon.
Poach on a low heat stirring occasionally until the juice has thickened and almost evaporated and it looks like a syrup. Cool slightly and serve over vanilla ice cream. If you have it, grate a little dark chocolate over the top
I make enough for two nights and reheat the feijoas in the microwave.
I'd never heard of them till you spoke of them before. I still wonder what they would taste like. They look similar to figs but not as 'seedy'. Can we get them here in Aus, I wonder? Can you make jam with them?
ReplyDeleteThey are like the Pineapple guava fruit.
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