Passion Fruit and Mango Smoothie

I love love love passion fruit, either it's a fresh passion fruit or juice.  I love it all, and I am so excited to share my passion fruit and mango smoothie with everyone.  Passion fruit is a tropical and subtropical fruit which is one of a type of berries.  It has a sour taste with a unique fresh fragrance.  Passion fruit is very high in vitamin C which is good for immune system and an antioxidant.

There are so many kinds of passion fruit in this world, but all I have seen and eaten are the yellow and dark red (almost purple).  The first passion fruit I had when I was in Thailand.  It was a yellow color, but the one that I have in the US. is the dark red.  From my experience, the differences between those two kinds are the color and size.  The yellow passion fruit is bigger than the dark red passion fruit.  They are different on the outside, but their texture and taste are the same.

Passion fruit, the lavish exotic fruit

Passion Fruit

When I was in Thailand, I could just pick the passion fruit from my aunt's house or buy it from the local market with an inexpensive price.  In the US., passion fruit is counted as an exotic fruit, and of course, the "exotic" items are always pricey.  I bought the passion fruit from Whole Foods.  Its diameter is about 1 or 1 ½ inch, and it's $2.99 for each.  I used one whole mango for one serving, and it's $1.50 for each.  I used champagne mango instead of red mango because it's sweeter because it gives more vibrant yellow color than the red mango.

Passion fruit and Champagne mango

In the end, I spent almost $5 for the drink, but it's worth every penny.  It's a fresh tropical exotic fruit drink.  It's a healthy and refreshing smoothie.  I don't think I'd find any place that will use a whole fresh passion fruit for my drink and sell it to me at this price.  I think It'd cost me about $10 at least if I bought the drink from somewhere else.  If you have never had the passion fruit before or have no idea what to do with the passion fruit when you see it at the market or grocery store try this.  Please try this recipe and open your door to the new kind of food experience.  I hope you like it!

Passion fruit and Mango Smoothie

Here's the recipe!

Ingredients:

• 1 Mango, about 10 oz.
• 1 Passion fruit
• 1 cup of ice
• 1 cup of So Delicious Original Coconut Milk
• 1 tablespoon Agave Nectar or honey

Instructions:

1. Peel the mango skin off and cut it into small pieces.
2. Cut the passion fruit in half and use a spoon to scoop the meat, pulp, and seeds out.  For this recipe, I don't discard any of the passion fruit, except the skin
3. Put ice, mango, passion fruit,  coconut milk, and agave nectar in a blender and blend them until it has a smooth texture.

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