FEATURE RECIPE
Passionfruit semifreddo

Passionfruit semifreddo

This doesn’t require an ice-cream machine either. It’s best eaten quickly after turning out. You’ll need to begin this recipe a day ahead.

Serves 10

Cooking Time Prep time 20 mins, cook 10 mins



8   egg yolks
250 gm   caster sugar
250 ml   (1 cup) passionfruit juice (see note)
Scraped seeds   of 1 vanilla bean
Juice   of 1 lime
300 gm   double cream
150 ml   pouring cream, lightly whipped
Pulp   of 2 passionfruit, plus extra to serve


1 Whisk egg yolks in an electric mixer until pale and fluffy (5-7 minutes). Meanwhile, stir sugar, passionfruit juice and vanilla seeds in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves, then simmer until syrupy (4-5 minutes) and add to egg yolks with lime juice, whisking continuously until mixture is cold (5-6 minutes).
2 Combine creams in a bowl, whisk until soft peaks form. Fold into passionfruit mixture, fold in pulp, spoon into an 8cm x 22cm plastic-lined rectangular cake tin, smoothing top (there may be mixture left over), freeze overnight until firm. Slice thickly and serve with extra pulp spooned over.

Note To extract passionfruit juice, process pulp in a food processor, then strain through a sieve (discard solids). Eighteen passionfruit yield about 250ml juice.

RECIPE Emma Knowles PHOTOGRAPHY Chris Court STYLING Lynsey Fryers and Emma Knowles

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