Passion Fruit

The maracuja is a flavor grenade encased in a parchment-like shell. Its mucilage (the gelatinous pulp surrounding the black seeds) offers one of the sharpest natural acidities in the plant kingdom, coupled with extremely complex floral esters. Since heat destroys its vivacity, it must strictly be cold-extracted. Passed through a sieve, its pure juice acts as a noble acid, capable of replacing lemon in a ceviche vinaigrette or cutting through the buttery richness of a whipped ganache.