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Kosher vegetarian recipes from my kitchen in Tel Aviv
Passion-fruit citrus cheesecake
May 27, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: cake, cheese, cheesecake, citrus, dairy, dessert, holiday, passion fruit | 6 Comments
This cheesecake has a fabulous, tangy flavor, thanks to the passion fruit, orange and lemon. It also almost ended in complete and total disaster due to my impatience.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve made a cheesecake — about 51 weeks, right around last year’s Shavuot, to be precise — and I kind of forgot the importance of letting the cheesecake take its dear sweet time to cool down. In my haste, I removed the baking ring a few minutes after this gorgeous, golden cheesecake came out of the oven, and watched in horror as the perfect top split and the cake collapsed into a pile on its tinfoil wrapping.
Fortunately, not all was lost. Continue reading Passion-fruit citrus cheesecake…
Passion fruit coconut sorbet
April 24, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: coconut, ice cream, parve, passion fruit, sorbet, vegan | 6 Comments
Passion fruit is downright weird — it’s ripe once the peel begins to wrinkle, at which point you slice it open to find it filled with yellow goo. Not the kind of texture you’d usually associate with fruit. That said, it’s a fabulous ingredient for cooking — full of intense, tangy flavor.
It also happens to be in season. I picked up a bucket full of passion fruit for less than five shekels (about $1.25) at my favorite corner greengrocer. They were going for six shekels a kilo, and these fruit are incredibly lightweight.
Passion fruit are so flavorful that I made this ice cream with three ingredients alone — passion fruit, coconut cream and sugar. It came out a beautiful buttery yellow, flecked with black passion fruit seeds, with a rich, creamy texture and a lovely flavor. Continue reading Passion fruit coconut sorbet…
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