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Here in Hawaii Lilikoi is a popular and delicious fruit. Lilikoi or Passionfruit or Passiflora edulis (Latin) is a purple or yellow fruit filled with seeds and pulp. Passion fruit vines first came to Hawaii from Australia in the 1800s and originated from Brazil. When you cut open the fruit they are filled with little sacs containing pulpy juice as well as many black seeds. You can eat the fruit raw, but you can also make many savory dishes from the juice of the fruit. This article explains how I take out the juice from the fruit to make many dishes—Lilikoi Butter, Passion Fruit Jelly, Lilikoi Mochi, Passion Fruit Juice and more. I will post those recipes here. If you are unfamiliar with the fruit or even how to get the juice from the fruit, I’ll explain it here. You may have other methods or better methods, but that’s okay. Here is my way explained and I hope you find it to be useful.

Collect all of your fruit. Purple, yellow, it doesn’t matter. The fruit is still good even though it looks all shriveled and dry on the outside. These types are even sweeter! Don’t throw these out. The juice can be mixed together. I find that the purple variety has more pulp once cut open than the yellow variety. Wash the outside of the fruit if you’d like and then cut the fruit open in half. The outside shell of the fruit is tough and hard. Once you cut the fruit open in half, scoop out the pulp—the seeds and all and put it into a container. Continue cutting each fruit in half and scooping out the pulp collecting it into a container. I throw away the outside part of the fruit, but you may find other uses for it. Once you are finished cutting open all of the fruit and scooping it out into a container then next you will need to strain out the seeds from the rest of the pulp.

I used to put them into a collander and try to mix out the pulp from the seeds. That was until a friend introduced me to this great milk nut bag (thanks Rucci!). Here is the link to purchase that great milk nut bag. It can even be washed in the dishwasher and used over and over again. https://amzn.to/3QrkXmh (Click on the link.) Using the milk nut bag, pour some of the pulp, a little at a time into the bag and then squeeze the bag into another container to collect the juice from the fruit. Continue this way until you have squeezed out every last drop of the juice. You can dispose of the seeds or find another use for them.

Wella, now you have Lilikoi Juice that you can make into many different dishes and treats! Enjoy!