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We've been eating a lot of these lately, they're feijoas from my parents' orchard. They really are 'green gold' to us- the children can make their way through a bag of them in an afternoon, if I don't intervene. In all my years eating them with a spoon, I've never cooked with them. But this morning I tried making muffins with some that were past their best- and they were delicious. I'll definitely be doing that again. I used this recipe with about two cups of mashed feijoa pulp inside. The flavour of the fruit diminishes somewhat and becomes less acidic, while making the muffins like small moist cakes. I reckon they'd be great in the school lunchboxes, too.

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15 responses to “green gold”

  1. Jo Avatar

    Yum. Love your forest glade plate too 🙂 My friend makes feijoa crumble instead of apple…handy if you have some frozen pulp mid winter!

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  2. Nicole Avatar

    I’ve never tasted a feijoa, so I’m curious to know what they taste like. Are they native to NZ?

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  3. Jo Avatar

    We love feijoas but they are hard to find here in Melbourne, luckily I found some at a market yesterday and the children have been demolishing them. Last year a friend had a tree in the next suburb which just groaned with them (she’s since moved to the country), we had sackloads so I tried a feijoa crumble which worked really well!

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  4. Tania Avatar

    I’d never even heard of these until a few weeks ago. I wish my kids would have tried them. So I made a few batches of jam out of them. They have a flavour slightly reminiscent of pineapple. The recipe is here if you wanted a look:
    http://ivynest.blogspot.com/2011/05/feijoas.html

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  5. aupres de mon arbre Avatar

    I don’t know those fruits at all.
    For the moment in France, we have strawberries.

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  6. Sonya Avatar

    oh I miss feijoas! mum made jam the other day- sounded delicious. Jealous!

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  7. Minji Avatar

    Yes, in France, we’ve never seen it. But it looks delicious!

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  8. blue china studio Avatar

    I’ve never seen or heard of this fruit before. I’m also curious as to what they taste like.

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  9. Sera Avatar

    They’re not native to NZ, but pretty much grow only here and a couple of other places. They also don’t transport well, they bruise very easily, so they’re not really an option for export. They’re related to the guava I think, but don’t taste much like it to me!
    So delicious!!! I’m jealous, I didn’t get to eat many this year as I left NZ in the middle of the season 😦 Feijoa cake with a crumble topping is also amazing. You can mix them with apple to bulk it out if you want to save them mostly for eating with a spoon 😉
    Sera

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  10. Z Avatar

    never tasted them, but they look good!

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  11. Lindsay Jewell Avatar

    Highly curious about said green plantlike substances.

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  12. Maribeth Avatar

    No feijoas in New England! Interesting to see regional foods. We will soon have our strawberries and raspberries.

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  13. Brittany Avatar

    i can’t freaking find these little things anywhere! argh!

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  14. jamara Avatar
    jamara

    Green gold indeed!!!
    They are known as Pineapple Guava and Guavasteen also.
    They are native to the highlands of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina.
    Do keep an eye out for them though apparently they can be grown in Scotland and even Russia and definately worth what ever price you may need to pay for them 🙂

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  15. lekki Avatar
    lekki

    We’ve had our best feijoa season ever here at our place in Waiuku. I’ve stewed them, given plenty away, preserved jars and jars of feijoa-goodness and used them as a bottom layer in bread and butter (without the butter) puddings. The puddings were…mmm…delicious

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