The Feijoa Challenge

Teacher - Karyn. karyn@motec.nz

Issue: After waiting for my first feijoa to drop and then getting very excited when it did 5 weeks ago I am now inundated with feijoas, and I haven't been able to drop them off to my friends.

Brief: You need to help me out by sending me some of your favourite feijoa recipes. You can also make some of the ones that I have made and put up.

Specifications:

You (or your whanau) need to have made your recipe - it doesn't need to be this season.

Feijoa Smoothie

Milk - cows, almond, coconut, soy, rice
Feijoas
Banana - frozen or fresh
2 T yoghurt (optional)
2 T rolled oats

Put all together in a blender/nutri bullet.

Quick and Easy Feijoa Cake

Place these ingredients in a food processor and mix until smooth.

½ c milk

2 eggs

1 ¼ c white sugar

1 c mashed feijoas

1 tspn vanilla essence

75 g butter

Into a bowl put

2 c flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

Pour the processor contents into a bowl with the remaining ingredients and mix well.

Pour into a well-greased or baking paper-lined 20-23 cm cake tin.

Bake for 40-45 minutes at 180 degrees C. - remember to out the cake on the middle rack.

Lemon Butter Icing

2 c icing sugar (powdered)

grated rind and juice of 1 lemon

25 g butter, melted

Mix all ingredients together until smooth.

Add extra lemon juice if required to make a fluffy buttery consistency.

Feijoa and Apple Crumble

4 apples 1/2 cup plain flour

1/3 cup water 1 & 1/2 cups rolled oats

2 T lemon juice 1 & 1/2 t cinnamon

3 T sugar 1/2 cup sugar

Pinch of salt 3 T coconut thread

2 cups feijoa pulp 150 g cold butter

Method

Peel and cut the apple into thick slices and put into a medium-sized saucepan.
Add water, lemon juice, sugar and a pinch of salt, cover and bring to the boil. Turn down to a simmer and cook for a couple of minutes.(you don’t want them to be too soft as they will cook more in oven).
Add scooped feijoa to the saucepan, stir then cover and cook for a further 2 minutes until lightly poached.
In a deep bowl mix together flour, oats, sugar and cinnamon. Rub in the butter until the mixture is like breadcrumbs. (Try grating the cold butter into mixture)
Transfer the fruit to a greased ovenproof dish. The fruit should fill three quarters of the dish. Sprinkle crumble over the top of the fruit.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 20-25 minutes until the crumble is cooked and fruit juices start to bubble up through the crumble.
Enjoy with fresh cream, custard or ice cream.

Feijoa and Lime Muffins

Ingredients

3 cups flour
2 T baking powder
1 cup caster sugar (you can use normal sugar)
3 eggs
1 1/4 cups milk
1 cup finely chopped feijoas
125 grams melted butter

Method

Preheat oven bake 220 degrees Celsius.
Sift flour, baking powder and sugar into large bowl. Make a well in the middle.
In a jug mix together the eggs, and.milk. Add the fejoas.
Stir in to the dry ingredients.
Add the melted butter and fold in (fold it gently and please don’t over mix).
Spray 12 muffin tins.
Fill muffin tins 3/4 full.
Bake in middle of oven for 15-20 minutes (until when touched lightly with finger they spring back)

Glaze

2 T sugar
2 T Orange juice
Grated rind and juice of 1 lime

Once muffins are cooked brush over the glaze and ket rest for 5minutes before removing from tins.

Please email me your recipes/ideas and photos karyn@motec,nz

When you email can you let me know if it is OK to out them on the website - thanks.

Stakeholder feedback:

"I made the whole smoothie vegan. It was delicious. Thank you for the recipe." Robin

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