This recipe first appeared in New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
Nici's best feijoa friands
Nici Wickes shares the recipe for her very best feijoa friands. With their gentle, perfumed flavour and jellied texture, feijoas really make these delicate, gluten-free friands sing
- 20 mins cooking
- Makes 12
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Ingredients
- 150 gram butter, melted
- 1/2 cup icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon lime or lemon zest (optional)
- 4 large egg whites
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/4 cup ground almonds
- 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
- 4 - 6 medium feijoas, peeled and sliced into three pieces
- icing sugar, to dust
Method
- 1Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 12-hole friand or muffin tray and place a square of baking paper in each recess.
- 2Melt the butter and mix in the sugar and zest. Lightly whisk the egg whites and salt. Add to the butter and sugar.
- 3Stir in the ground almonds and coconut. Mix gently to combine.
- 4Fill the friand or muffin pan recesses to two-thirds full. Place a slice of feijoa on each, gently pressing it in the batter.
- 5Bake for 20 minutes and cool for 5 minutes in the tray before carefully turning out.
- 6Dust the friands with icing sugar and eat!
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