How To Skin a PAWPAW: What To Do with This Luscious Native Wild Fruit!
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Pawpaw ID, Harvest & Plant: • Hand Pollinating PAWPA...
Hand Pollinating Pawpaws • Hand Pollinating PAWPA...
How To Skin a Pawpaw: What To Do with This Luscious Fruit!
Life keeps giving me pawpaws; and I am happily challenged with how to honor this delectable abundance. Yes, eating them straight (+ smoothies + ice cream +....) addresses part of this issue, as does giving some away, but I’ve become a nighttime pawpaw skinner to deal with the rest.
Pawpaw (scientific name: Asimina triloba) is a delicious temperate-zone "tropical" fruit native to eastern North America.
Notes on Harvest, Ripeness, Flavor and Nutrition
Ripe fruit is soft to the touch, emits an alluring odor, and easily comes off the tree. Eat right away or store ripe fruit in fridge for 1 week or at room temp for 1-3 days.
Almost ripe fruit is slightly soft to the touch. It can be kept in fridge for up to 3 weeks. Then brought out at room temp for 1-2 days to ripen.
Don’t pick under ripe pawpaws or they won’t ripen. Under ripe is rock hard, no odor and does not easily fall off the tree.
Range of fruit ripeness: like a banana from yellow green skin all the way to brown spots.
After removing the inedible seeds and skin, eat raw or preserve fruit pulp in freezer which keeps for over a year.
Pawpaw Flavor: divine, somewhat like a banana, peach, melon combo with a hint of vanilla; and custard like texture. Note: can have a slight bitter aftertaste.
Try pawpaw in recipes where you would use banana, mango, and even melon and peach. Use in smoothies, ice cream, cheesecake, mousse, savory sauces, etc. Use as the sweetener in ice cream and smoothies.
Nutrition: mineral rich high in iron and magnesium. Per 3 oz fruit: 7 milligrams of iron; almost ½ of the RDA and 113 milligrams magnesium; 1/3 of the RDA.
Grateful for all of this abundance! It surrounds us, we just need to slow down and learn to see it, and then to receive it. This is what motivates me to create and share!
Happy foraging and feasting,
Dina
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Also, since I have a higher seed to flesh ratio in my paws paws, I use a potato masher to gently pulp the flesh I’ve scooped out, and that helps separate out the seeds from the flesh. It’s still a time consuming process but paw paws are SO worth it!
@DinaFalconi
2 күн бұрын
Thanks, good to hear about your technique.
I have two old pear trees that gifted me enough pears to make 20 pints of pear butter, as well as some fruits for snacking... The deer and groundhogs cleaned up the rest. Your description of the Pawpaw's taste makes me wonder if they would make a good canning butter. Now I want to plant a few Pawpaw trees. :)
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment. Love your pear butter bounty! Yes, wondering about the pawpaw butter too, but I find that cooking them changes their flavor for the less. Still worth an experiment. How did you make your pear butter?
@charliensam
2 жыл бұрын
@@DinaFalconi I peel my pears because of the rough texture of them. Then I dice them up, add a bit of sugar (not much), and cook them on low all day. After about 8 to 10 hours the pear mixture is a lovely shade of deep gold. If we are eating it right away, it is done. If I can, which I do for most of the butter, I add lemon juice according to the Ball recipe. Then it is just a quick water bath can and its delicious Pear Butter for months to come. It is delicious on oatmeal. I use the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving for most of my canning. I love to do small batch canning & I really like that a lot of the recipes are for smaller batches. :)
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, wonderful info!
They grow as far north as NY? Wow. Also jealous of that mushroom haul.
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, crazy mush haul! We planted these so, cheating on the pawpaws native zone a touch.
Excellent. Thank you so much for what you do... I really like the meditation perspective!
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Hello Tammy, thanks for your comment!
your videos are so helpful thanks
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment. Glad!
I'm so jealous! I haven't had a paw paw in years. Delicious! No one in the area I live in now has even heard of them. I've looked for the trees, the zebra caterpillars and butterflies that eat on them...zip. The hen of the woods too..
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Wishing you had some pawpaws, or you were nearby so we could give you some and hens too!
I used a potate peel for all my fruits to peel off the skin. Sorry never new about the Pawaw thanks for the information.
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
I had two fruits, one went to the squirrel and one went to me. Delicious.
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for you comment!
@Terri_Stauffer
2 жыл бұрын
At least the squirrel left you one.
What form of magnesium is in the pawpaw
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Good question. Of course, it's naturally occurring, but which kind..? I can't seem to pull up data on the kinds of magnesium foods contain, only that they contain a certain level. If you learn more, please send along. Thanks.
What variety is that massive one you skin first?
@DinaFalconi
11 ай бұрын
It's a seedling, not a named variety, from what I remember.
I’ve never had a paw paw and would love to try it one day. Just out of curiosity, I live in northern New Mexico, where is the closest place I could travel to to find them, and perhaps some mushrooms too? Thanks.
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
The pawpaw distribution map is here: plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=ASTR Not sure about the mushrooms, there are so many types, you may have some where you are....?
@noah786
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! I just meant that if I took a trip to find paw paw perhaps I could also find the mushrooms you had in the video as well.
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
I see, thanks.
My paw paws are too young to produce fruit as I just planted seedlings in spring. Tried one for first time last year at nursery who gave free samples. They tasted so good. Can’t find them growing wildly or any place selling them.
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you planted some! Where are you? Here in Mid Hudson Valley, NY you can find them at various shops.
@Terri_Stauffer
2 жыл бұрын
@@DinaFalconi I am near Monticello, will keep looking.
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
If you are near Monticello NY, you can find them at the High Falls Food Coop right now.
: )
@DinaFalconi
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!