Feijoa season is here and if you know of a pair of healthy and productive feijoa trees, why not make the most of nature’s bounty? Delicious with cold meats and cheeses, it will keep for months once bottled. Makes 800g.
Ingredients
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- 10 ripe medium sized feijoas (about 1kg)
- 3 cooking apples
- 600mls water
- 600g sugar
Method
- Remove skin from feijoas, roughly chop fruit and weigh: you need 300g of sugar per 500g of fruit. Put feijoa peel, cores and apples into a pan; cover with water. Cook until soft and mushy – about 10 minutes.
- Strain through a fine sieve, pressing firmly to get all the liquid from the apple. In a large heavy bottomed pot cook chopped feijoas in this liquid until soft, then mash. Add sugar to feijoa pulp; stir until dissolved.
- Cook slowly on the lowest heat, stirring every 2-3 minutes until thick. When it’s ready (about 2 hours) the spoon should start to meet resistance and the mixture come away from the sides.
- Pour while hot into straight sided sterilised jars and seal.
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