Passionfruit Delicious

I love passion fruits and best of all its something thats grown here in Maldives.   I  love the smell and the sweet sour taste of it and the crunch of the seed. My sister and I used to just open the passion fruit, take the pulp and mix in some sugar and just enjoy spoonfuls.   My hubby and I  attempted to grow a passion fruit vine on our tiny balcony. Its amazing how the tendrils just wrap themselves around anything that comes its way so it can anchor itself to it as it grows.  Did you know you can even eat the leaves?!?

I have done the  Lemon Delicious pudding a couple of times but lemons are pretty expensive but passion fruit, as you know it is available all year around and locally.  I tried one on Australian Womens Weekly Magazine but it had coconut milk in it and I didn't really like it, it was nice but not like wow, and I am the kind of person who goes for the wow factor when it comes to dessert.  So I decided to use this lemon delicious recipe and used passion fruit in place of the the lemon. I just love this  pudding, you don't need a sauce to go with it as a delicious

Recipe : Passionfruit Delicious Recipe, recipe adapted from Lemon Delicious recipe Found in Olive Magazine

50g butter
200g sugar
about 3 passion fruits
3 eggs separated
50g flour, sifted
250ml milk


Preheat the oven to 180- 200 degrees Celcius.  Lightly butter a 6-cup capacity oven-proof dish and set aside.

First take a clean, bowl, rub some cut lime and then wipe with a tissue. Add the egg whites and whisk till stiff. ( use an electric beater, a clean dry one).

In a separate bowl. beat the butter, and sugar,  till light and pale, can use a hand whisk or go the easy way by using an electric one.

  Cut open the passionfruits, and add into a measuring jug or cup, you should have 100 ml of juice, usually two plump fruits. I said three just in case.  Add this mixture to the butter mixture along with the egg yolks.

 Then add a spoon full of flour, then milk then flour and milk, alternately till you use up the said amount of flour and milk and are well mixed.

Now add half the egg whites and fold it in till well mixed, then the other half of the egg whites, be gentle when folding.

Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish.  Place the baking dish in a larger deep baking tray, take it over to the oven, and then pour boiling hot water into the baking TRAY (NOT THE  PUDDING DISH) till the water comes up to half the pudding dish.

See,  the pudding tray is kept inside the metal tray and add the water  into the metal tray   

Carefully place this in the hot oven and bake for  45 - 50 minutes, depending on the oven.  It can even be less than   45 minutes, the top has to be set and golden.

Remove carefully from the oven, take it out from the tray and let it cool slightly. You can chill for an hour, and serve,  or even warm. I just love the yummy sauce that forms at the bottom Absolutely Delicious!