Lilikoi Vinaigrette (Passion Fruit Vinaigrette) Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is Lilikoi dressing? ›

Lilikoi vinaigrette is the perfect dressing for your favorite salads. Slightly sweet yet tart, vibrant yellow goodness made for drizzling and adding a little pep to your greens. This vinaigrette will make any plain salad better. Make it ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator to have on hand at all times.

The French have decided that the perfect ratio for a vinaigrette is 3 parts oil to 1 part vinegar. For my personal taste, that's a little too oily — but it's totally up to you. My simple system is: In a small screw-top jar, place vinegar and a pinch of salt; cover and shake (this helps to dissolve the salt).

Balsamic vinegar is pure vinegar. Balsamic vinegar is dark brown in color and has a very robust, slightly sweet flavor. Balsamic vinaigrette is a mixture made with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, sugar, salt and/or other spices. It is typically used as a salad dressing but has other uses in the kitchen as well.

Although not a distinct species from the purple passion fruit, the lilikoi is a slightly larger fruit, with bright yellow skin and tarter pulp. Most other characteristics of the vine and fruit are similar to the purple passion fruit.

An emulsifier is used in a vinaigrette to stabilize the oil and vinegar. Common emulsifiers include egg yolks, soy lecithin, and mustard. These ingredients all include lecithin--the stabilizing compound. In many vinaigrettes, mustard is the go-to stabilizer.

In addition to white wine vinegar, red wine, sherry, balsamic and cider vinegars can all be used in the same quantities as above. It's really down to personal taste and it's great to have a selection of vinegars in your cupboard to give variety to even the simplest salads.

Sweetness balances out acidity, spice, and bitterness. A salad composed of bitter greens may benefit from a sweeter dressing. But sweetness can come from sources other than one-note white sugar; consider honey, pureed dates, maple syrup, jam, or molasses as sweeteners that also add flavor and mouth-feel.

The best way to dress your salad is with a little olive oil (healthy fat!) and lemon juice, or olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Balsamic vinegar contains beneficial antioxidants, no fat, and very few calories.

Which is healthier balsamic vinegar or vinaigrette? ›

Generally speaking, the healthiest salad dressing will be a vinaigrette like balsamic or oil and vinegar, while Caesar, ranch or anything with the word “creamy” will be the unhealthiest.

Heart health and blood pressure

Balsamic vinegar can reduce the concentration of triglycerides and total cholesterol in the body; these have been linked to heart attacks and stroke. Also, due to its low saturated fat content, balsamic vinegar is believed to enhance heart health and reduce high blood pressure.

Lilikoi fruit or passionfruit is a yellow passion flower fruit known as Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa grown in Hawaii. It is a vine that creates beautiful flowers and then some edible seed pods that can be eaten raw or used in a variety of drinks, desserts to even savory dishes.

When you cut them open they are filled with little sacs containing its pulpy juice as well as many, many black seeds. The taste of the fruit ranges from sweet/tart – tart in flavor and is very aromatic. The yellow form of the passion fruit plant takes 1-3 years to begin bearing fruit.