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  • The Australian Women’s Weekly Food

    PASSIONFRUIT

    Dec 28, 2020 5 minutes

    FRUIT

    Apricots
    Berries:
    blackberries
    strawberries
    Cherries
    Grapes
    Melons:
    honeydew
    rockmelon
    watermelon
    Nectarines
    Oranges: Valencia
    Passionfruit

    VEGETABLES

    Beans
    Beetroot
    Cabbage
    Carrots
    Celery
    Chillies
    Kumara (orange sweet potato)
    Leeks
    Okra
    Spring onions
    Sweetcorn
    Tomatoes

    Nothing says summer like passionfruit and, despite challenging conditions for growers, this season will be no different, with a large volume of high-quality produce now available. Australian-grown passionfruit is available year-round, but there are two main supply peaks – summer and winter. The passionfruit’s tough shell encloses perfumed, intensely flavoured, tangy yet sweet pulp. The common variety, which is also the most fragrant, is small, round and purple-skinned, while Panama passionfruit, a large, round, light purple/ red-skinned cultivar, is almost as good. The long, yellow variety, known as banana passionfruit, is less tangy, while the yellow-skinned round variety has the least perfume of all.

    CHOOSING

    Go for plump and smooth fruit that’s heavy for its size – which

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