Delicious and incredibly easy you will love this Feijoa Ice Cream – just two ingredients and a squeeze of lemon juice!
I know that Feijoas is a mainly Kiwi thing, and so many of you message me saying you cannot get them where you live, and for you I am sorry! We have two trees and get a bumper crop each year so it is nice to find new ways to enjoy them other than eating them by the dozen!
One of my favourite recipes for them is my Feijoa Crunch Muffins, they are absolutely divine. You can find that recipe here.
Feijoa Crunch Muffins
I am a huge fan of 2, 3 or 4 ingredient recipes, especially ones that are so simple and delicious such as this one. The kids have been making a lot of frozen fruit ice cream recently, which is good as we always have loads of frozen fruit in the freezer. It is so handy for smoothies and ice cream!
There are many Feijoa ice cream recipes out there, some with additional sweeteners or cream or yoghurt, but we find the simplest version is often the best and that is definitely the case here.
The main ingredients are feijoas and banana. The banana adds the creaminess, and the feijoas all that flavour! I am well aware there are many people out there who are not fans of the humble feijoa and that is ok!
What is a Feijoa?
Sometimes known as a pineapple guava it is a green egg shaped fruit that grows on trees. The inside flesh is a creamy colour with jelly like centre, and it has quite a gritty texture like a pear. The flavour is hard to pin down but some suggest it is a combination of many other fruits such as pineapple, guava and strawberry. There are also those that think it tastes like soap…..
My kids love making fresh fruit ice cream in lots of different flavours – so easy!
There are only a few basic steps, you want to scoop out the feijoa flesh and peel and dice up a banana. Pop on an oven tray or similar and place in the freezer overnight, you want the fruit to be completely frozen.
The next step is to use a food processor to blend up the frozen fruit. A top tip here is to leave the fruit out for five or so minutes so it is not such hard work on your food processor. We always add a squeeze of lemon juice at this stage too.
The fruit goes through stages of coming together. You will want to scrape down the sides from time to time and keep going until it does become creamy – this can take a while.
Once it is creamy and smooth you are good to go! You can either eat it straight away, or pop it in a container and freeze for a further 30 minutes to firm up or until you are ready to serve.
It is that easy! Have you tried fruit ice cream before?
I hope you enjoy this recipe for delicious fresh fruit Feijoa Ice Cream.
Easy Feijoa Ice Cream
Delicious Fresh Fruit Ice Cream, nothing added, just fruit. Fruit needs to freeze overnight.
Ingredients
- 250 Grams Feijoa Flesh, approx 7-8 feijoas
- 1 Banana
- Lemon Juice, 1-2 teaspoons, or a generous squeeze
Instructions
- Prepare an oven tray with baking paper and set aside
- Halve the Feijoas, scoop out the flesh with a teaspoon and place on the baking tray
- Peel the banana and slice into big chunks and place on the baking tray
- Freeze the fruit overnight
- In a food processor add the frozen feijoas and banana and a generous squeeze of lemon juice
- Mix until it begins to break down, then scrape down the sides
- Continue to mix and scrape until the mixture becomes soft and creamy
- Enjoy straight away or add to a container, cover and freeze for a further 30 minutes to firm up or until you are ready to serve
- Enjoy!
Notes
Leave the frozen fruit out for 5 minutes to make it a bit easier on the food processor.
A blender, unless industrial, will find this job too tricky. A food processor is best.
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Happy Baking!
Anna
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Donna Bradnock says
I was gifted a lot of feijoas, so I spent an hour gutting them and putting them in freezer bags. Are there cool recipes I can have to use them…or do they thaw well enough for the recipes here? Thank you! 🙂
justamumnz says
You can definitely use frozen feijoas for my feijoa baking.