I have just taken all the flesh out of a bucket of fijoa's and now what to do with the skins. I have but them through the kitchen wiz and chopped them up to a rough pulp and was going to put the pulp in the compost but is there anything better I could do. Idea's please. Thank you

hammer23 - 2018-04-08 00:46:00

http://martinheather.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/feijoa-skins.htm
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petal1955 - 2018-04-08 07:39:00

https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz/recipes/feijoa-cordial/

petal1955 - 2018-04-08 07:42:00

If you are going to cook the feijoas just top and tail them and slice with the skins on before cooking. OR peel them with a potato peeler if you really dont want the skins and put the skins in the compost.

articferrit - 2018-04-08 07:56:00

I eat them with skin, also leave on when making jam.same like kiwifruit

lilyfield - 2018-04-08 08:14:00

Are yours full of caterpillars this year? There apparently is a guava moth invasion this season.

figjam000 - 2018-04-10 10:50:00

I've made this & I liked it
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.as
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samanya - 2018-04-10 11:00:00

fEijoa is the spelling. - has an E.

yapper - 2018-04-10 11:45:00

yapper wrote:

fEijoa is the spelling. - has an E.

OK you are correct, but we knew what the op meant.
Does it really matter?

samanya - 2018-04-10 18:27:00

Thanks petal....saved for next season...sadly mine are all but finished.
Have just enough to try the fritters tomorrow.

wheelz - 2018-04-10 19:16:00

I eat the ones off our tree with the skin on too. Big size this year. No moth yet...

Fritters? Worth a go.

nor2 - 2018-04-19 21:19:00

I eat the ones off our tree with the skin on too. Big size this year. No moth yet...

Fritters? Worth a go.

nor2 - 2018-04-19 21:22:00

They make a beautifully fragrant cake with the skins on too

bisloy - 2018-04-19 21:56:00

After nearly 4 years of laboratory work, results show that a natural compound found in Feijoa skins has dramatic antifungal properties

sooseque - 2018-04-19 23:00:00

If you don't want to eat the skins, use the spoon to cut the very top then scoop out in one go. Pulp into the bowl and skin into the compost bucket. Takes about 3 seconds per feijoa once you get into the rhythm.
Skins straight into the compost with no further treatment. Pulp bowl into the microwave 3+2-3 minutes for a large bowl. Cool and put into ziplock bags 2cups at a time then freeze. It takes very little time to process and we have feijoa and apple crumble/loaf/cake all year.
Regarding eating skins, the larger thin skinned varieties can be good, but smaller thick skins can be too coarse to be nice. Also, because you let the feijoas drop, how much you want to eat the skins will depend on how clean the ground is and/or how much washing you want to do.
I've planted mondo grass under the trees for a good clean drop zone and the dwarf is working well where it has thickened up. The standard mondo lets the fruit go though and I'm slowly replacing it with the dwarf one.

raewyn2 - 2018-04-25 09:47:00

Bump for feijoas skins ;) hope it is the right one (searched for skins)

unknowndisorder - 2018-05-21 19:43:00

** bump **

autumnwinds - 2019-05-20 23:27:00