Mini Pavlovas with Kiwifruit Sorbet

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After a whole lot of indecision over what to pair the kiwifruit sorbet with, I finally hit on what should have been obvious from the start: pavlova.

Comments

[amles80]

This looks wonderful!

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Thank you. :)

[belare]

I'm allergic to kiwis and right now I hate it! That looks absolutely delicious.

[blue_sky_day]

Yeah, but you can easily substitute another fruit.

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Oh that's unfortunate. By right now do you mean it was an emerging allergy?

I actually served a pavlova roulade with kiwis, peaches and strawberries at my birthday party without knowing one of my guests was allergic to kiwis. She was all excited about the pav and had to give it to someone else when she saw kiwis. I felt so horrible.

I posted a strawberry sorbet on my blog a little while ago. Recipe is different to this one and the process is different, but in either you could use your favourite fruit.

[belare]

No, I meant, I hated my allergy the moment I saw the picture to the recipe. Because it looks sooo good. Normally I don't care because there are so many fruits, not being able to eat one kind of fruit doesn't matter.

The strawberry sorbet sounds good, too. Have to try that someday :)

[nynaeve_sedai]

Oh this looks delicious! It's summer where I'm at (I lives in NSW for a couple years as a child so I love introducing this dessert in any fashion to my fellow citizens up this way). I wonder if you could make several different sorbets and combine them - kiwi/strawberry for example.

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That's a lovely idea! Kudos for spreading the good word of the pav. I remember years ago posting about pav and so many people from elsewhere had no idea what it was - growing up with it as an absolute party staple, it still shocks me when people have never heard of it.

[nynaeve_sedai]

The hard part about trying to make it up here is having to go without passion fruit juice - can't get it unless you order it on the internet and it's stinkin' expensive. Soooooo I make mine without :S I wish I knew of a comparable replacement, but alas.

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Oh that's annoying. I'm personally not huge on the passionfruit component because no one sieves the seeds out and I just hate crunching on the seeds, so I've actually never made it with passionfruit.

[abbysiuta]

So pretty!

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Thank you. :)

[neurotoxia]

Oh wow, this looks amazing! I absolutely have to try this soon. Never made pavlova before (I hadn't even head of its existence until a year ago), so I hope it'll work out.

Can I substitue the kiwis with raspberries for this one? I'm also allergic to kiwis (and to nearly every other fruit on the planet - meh) and raspberries is one of the few fruits I can actually eat.

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You definitely could sub it. I linked a recipe to a strawberry sorbet in the comments above, that one would probably work better with raspberries. It might be overly tart using the kiwi sorbet recipe due to the addition of citrus, but given that there's a sugar syrup too I guess it would still taste sweet enough.

[neurotoxia]

Thanks! I'll try the other sorbet you linked to then :)