Cocktails with Passion fruit purée
Passion fruit purée is a thick fruit base made from the strained, seed-filled pulp of the passion fruit, the berry of the vine Passiflora edulis.
Taste profile
Intensely fragrant on the nose, with a sweet-tart pulp beneath the aroma; medium sweetness and a clear acidic edge over a soft, pulpy body.
How it's used
A strongly aromatic flavour base that also lends body and a soft colour; shaken into the build so the pulp integrates. Purchased purée is often sold sweetened and/or frozen, so a bartender adjusts other sweetening to account for added sugar already in the product.
Substitutes for Passion fruit purée
Where passion fruit is the defining flavour it is essentially not substitutable, since the specific aroma cannot be recreated from another fruit; used only as a small accent, another aromatic tropical purée can stand in, with the sweet-tart balance and body rebuilt from a sugar source, an added acid, and a thickening fruit base.
Often confused with
Passion fruit juice
Purée is the whole strained or blended pulp, retaining body and texture from the fruit flesh, whereas juice is the thinner extracted liquid. The purée is thicker and carries more body per volume, though both come from the same seed-filled pulp and commercial labels use the terms inconsistently.
