feijoa syrup

This recipe comes from Jane Meder’s New Zealand Home & Country Style Cookery (Moa Beckett, 1992) which I found while  foraging through a relative’s cookbook collection. It can easily be doubled or tripled depending on your feijoa supplies, but keep to the relative quantities given here.

It is suggested for use as a cordial but I would be tempted to pour it over pancakes, dessert cakes or even to whip up some new kind of flavoursome fruit cocktail.

FEIJOA SYRUP

Ingredients

• 2 cups of feijoa pulp
• 2 cups of water
• 2 cups of sugar
• 2 teaspoons of lemon juice

Method

1. To pulp the feijoas, peel them, cut up roughly and gradually bring them to the boil, stirring to prevent sticking. Put the fruit through a sieve or mouli.
2. Combine the pulp with the sugar, water and lemon juice in the above proportions. Heat until simmering, stirring to prevent sticking.
3. Pour into hot, sterilised preserving jars or bottles and seal. Turn the bottles upside down for 5 minutes after sealing.

Dilute the syrup with water to taste before drinking.

feijoa, lychee and mango cocktail

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How tropical does this sound? It’s such a shame feijoa season is so far away from this sultry summertime weather we’re having right now in Australia. This would go down a treat.

Recipe by Amanda Laird at the New Zealand Herald.

FEIJOA, LYCHEE AND MANGO COCKTAIL

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 1 mango, peeled and stone removed, reserving a small slice, finely diced, for garnishing
• 10 peeled fresh lychees, or use tinned, reserving one, finely diced, for garnishing
• 1200ml feijoa vodka*
• juice of 1 lime
• 1 cup lychee juice

To make

1. Put all ingredients in a processor or liquidiser and process for 1 minute or until smooth.
2. Pour into martini glasses and sprinkle prepared garnish onto each glass.

*As far as I know there is only ONE feijoa vodka you should consider  -  42 Below Vodka, made in New Zealand (you need to be over 18 to visit the site).

feijoa daiquiri

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Gorgeous culinary delights abound on this foodie blog by Pease Pudding, written by a “Northern English Lass” now living in New Zealand. This is a real treasure trove of recipes, well worth a serious browse, for a variety of delectable sweets, gluten free alternatives and amazingly light and healthy food. I just love it! And somewhere in there I also found this delicious daiquiri. Perfect for a northern hemisphere New Year’s Eve celebration, if you can find those feijoas, that is.

FEIJOA DAIQUIRI

Makes 4

Ingredients

• 6 feijoas (scooped out flesh only)
• two hand-fulls of ice cubes
• 9 parts Bacardi White Rum
• 3 parts Rose’s Lime Cordial

To make

1. Put all ingredients into a blender and mix until smooth.
2. Serve in a cocktail glass.
3. Enjoy!

feijoa dancer (cocktail)

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The Feijoa Dancer is a cocktail local to Auckland bars and nightclubs and I’ve seen it around on a few different websites. Gail Seymour who writes for Helium, a food and drinks website, says it was invented in 2005 and is attributed to someone called Paul Dodd. (Sorry I am not up with cocktail inventors). She adds that it is served as a long drink over ice and “has a deceptively non alcoholic taste, due largely to the addition of Red Bull and lemonade”.

FEIJOA DANCER (COCKTAIL)

Ingredients

• 2 parts Feijoa Vodka available from www.42below.com
• 1 part Apple Sourz
• 2 parts Southern Comfort
• 4 parts lemonade
• 4 parts Red Bull

Method

1. Add alcoholic ingredients and ice to cocktail shaker and shake well.
2. Pour half ice mixture into a highball glass.
3. Add lemonade and Red Bull.
4. Add remainder of ice and alcohol.

odessa (cocktail)

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This recipe for a Russian sounding cocktail comes from a website run by Penryn Orchard, a small four-and-a-half-acre family operation based in Placer Country, California. They included this interesting observation about feijoas:

The other day, inspiration struck as I had just gathered an armload of pineapple guavas. I came up with a new drink I am calling the Odessa, after the Black Sea resort, because Russians are crazy about this aromatic fruit, which Georgians used to ship to Moscow in the days of the Soviet Union.

ODESSA (COCKTAIL)

Serves 2

Ingredients

• 4 feijoas
• 2 tablespoons of syrup
• 1/2 lime
• crushed ice
• 4 ounces of vodka

Method

1. Scoop the inside of the feijoas  into a blender.
2. Add the syrup and juice of the lime and blend until smooth.
3. Strain through a sieve to remove grit.
4. Shake with a cup of crushed ice and vodka.
5. Serve in chilled martini glasses.

feijoa mojito

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Oh how good does this sound. Submitted to Facebook’s Feijoa page by Richard Jack.

FEIJOA MOJITO

Ingredients

• half a lime, in wedges
• 3 large mint leaves
• 3 parts blended feijoa pulp / feijoa smoothie in the off season
• 2 parts white rum
• soda water to top up
• ice

Method

1. Muddle lime and mint in the bottom of a highball glass. Almost fill glass with ice, then add the rum and feijoa.
2. Top up with soda water and (this is important) drink through a straw.