You know this song from Francky Vincent… It goes: « Vas-y Francky, c’est bon… fruit de la passion… bon dessert mon amour… » which literally translates to « Go ahead Francky, it’s good… passion fruit… good dessert my love… » If you don’t know Francky, he’s a special musician, he almost always sings about love, passion, and the likes.
Anyway, this is where I heard of passion fruit the first time, in Francky’s song “Fruit de la passion”. And yes, I’ve been curious about the fruit ever since, and have always wanted to try it. And then randomly one day my mom introduced it to us. She made the passion fruit juice from scratch that day.
On my last trip to Benin, while shopping at the market, she suggested that I take some passion fruits with me back to Chicago. The fruits seller suggested I make the juice with the carambola fruit, but I couldn’t travel with them. Well, I had seen Carambola before, but I had no idea what it tasted like. Funny enough, when I came back to Chicago and went grocery shopping at my local Mexican store, they had really pretty carambola fruits. I thought to myself: wow! that’s a sign. I’m making it. So here we go, today I’m sharing with you how I made this passion fruit and carambola mocktail. It’s delicious, and I’m sure you will love it.
