Passion Fruit Syrup

About

Passion fruit syrup is essential to many tropical and tiki cocktails. Luckily, this sweet, tart, tangy concoction is easy to make at home!

While exploring New Orleans about 14 years ago, I discovered that the sweet-sour tang in a perfect New Orleans Hurricane comes from passion fruit.

I really fell in love with passion fruit, or liliko’i, while visiting Hawaii. The honey liliko’i foam on top of Monkeypod’s Mai Tai is unforgettable.

I’m not the only Southern Appalachian who loves passion fruit. It’s a key ingredient in the Ain’t That Some signature cocktail at Morgan Wallen’s This Bar in Nashville, TN. Which is basically a passion fruit margarita.

You’ll also often find passion fruit teasing its way into Dolly’s seasonal treats at Dollywood. Y’all, we’ve got good taste over here.

Anyway, passion fruit tastes magical! Let me show you how easy it is to make your own passion fruit syrup.

Ingredients

You can use regular granulated sugar, demerara sugar, or turbinado sugar.

You need to use 100% pure passion fruit. I use frozen passion fruit puree because it’s the easiest to source in my area. I’m able to get it at my local Walmart.

If you have access to fresh passion fruit, you can use passion fruit pulp in this recipe. There’s no need to remove the seeds first because you will strain them out when bottling the syrup.

How to Make it

You’ll need a small saucepan, a fine mesh strainer, cheesecloth, a funnel, and a clean glass jar.

​First, you’ll mix sugar and water to create simple syrup.

Then, reduce the heat and add your passion fruit. Stir it for 3 minutes. Then, remove it from the heat and allow it to sit, undisturbed, for at least 30 minutes. You can leave it up to 2 hours.

Line a fine mesh strainer with cheesecloth and strain the syrup into a clean glass jar. It’s easier if you use a funnel!

You’ll be very tempted to squeeze it through the cheesecloth. Be patient and allow it to slowly strain, as forcing it through will cause the syrup to become cloudy.

Don’t panic if it becomes cloudy. It’s perfectly edible, just not as pretty.

What to Do with Passion Fruit Syrup

This homemade passion fruit syrup adds a sweet, tart, and tangy flavor to your at-home tiki drinks and other tropical cocktails. You can also add it to mocktails and desserts.

It looks like sunshine in a glass and is a great way to make homemade drinks look beautiful.

Get creative with it. 🙂

Make Passion Fruit Drinks

• Passion Fruit Margarita
• New Orleans Hurricane
• Mango and Passion Fruit Margarita
• POG Juice
• Passion Fruit Lemonade (add it directly to homemade lemonade)

Add it to Desserts

• Drizzle it over ice cream.
• Add it to a milkshake.
• Drizzle it over a parfait or sundae.
• Use it to sweeten fruit salad.
• Brush it over cakes and cupcakes to keep them from drying out.