In this video, I show you the AMAZING Golden Fruit of the Andes or Naranjilla or Lulo plant/fruit growing in my backyard. This is the type of exotic fruit you generally won’t find on the supermarket shelf which is why I grow them myself at home!
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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane – the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let’s get into it! Cheers, Mark 🙂
I´m Ecuadorian, so its a daily use fruit to us, what you have its not naranjilla its lulo… they look alike but naranjilla only grows in the amazonia on virgin soil so, you got a lulo which is a more adapted version of it, the difference is that the fruit its bigger than the naranjilla and have green inside, the naranjilla its yellow inside and its sweeter.. anyway.. we use it on juice, desserts but it´s really recognize because its the base of a traditional stew called Seco, you can make seco with chicken, meat, pork or chivo which is similar to a goat.. but since you have the fruit, i´ll give you a recipe of naranjilla mouse..
Ingredients:
whipping cream 1litter,
1 can of condensed milk,
750 ml of naranjilla pulp (just liquify with very little water o no water, strain to remove peel),
the juice of 2 lemons if are the yellow ones if you got lime(our type of lemon) use 5..
30gms of clear unflavored gelatine
150ml of water.
Procedure:
mix the gelatine with the water.. live it to hydrate
in a mixer or by hand with a wisk mix all the rest of the ingredients together..
get your gelatine in the microwave for 10 seconds or until it melts.. don´t over heat it, pour the liquid gelatine in the mix while you continue to mix, once its well mixed in, get nice cups o glases and fill them to a 3/4 of the capacity, leave it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or until its firm.. its delicious and you can decorate with some lady fingers… hope you do prepare this recipe…
hugs from Guayaquil – Ecuador
what you call tamarillo.. its tomate de arbol (tree tomato LOL) or tomatillo.. its really funny to listen you say it but its great to see your enthusiasm for our traditional fruits.. you want to boil then for about 5 minutos, let them cool and liquify the with milk and sugar, strain and have a great "batido de tomate de arbol" smoothie
My favourite fruit. I miss lulo juice so much. Thank you for posting about it, I’ll try growing it here
Here in Ecuador you can get in them in almost anywhere, for about 9 for 1usd
You need to make some juice about 3 for 1lt of water, I never eat one raw
My last name is Naranjilla. That's why Im here hahaha
What happened to your right arm. Mark? if that's not too much of a personal question
no wayyy!! you also have LULO!!. I love it. It is almost impossible to find it in Austria. Can it resist winter?
Agree what an exotic plant. We have one which is about two years old and full of ripening fruit. It's in a shady spot and is thriving.
@ Self Sufficient Me do these plants need alot of water??
Hey mate.. Ive got some in 3 gallon pots.. should i put them in ground? Texas here.. gets hot and sorta cold. high 90s and occasiona dips into 30s. f. How long do these trees live?
Hey , I want to start growing my own golden fruit of the Andes , could you please send some cuttings to me?
I just discovered your channel and I love it! Love how excited you are about growing new things. I'm not sure if you've grown Peruvian Gooseberry yet, seems they taste similar to these fruits but they're probably more bird resistant because they have an outer husk.
So now I'm mad at you, Mark, because I can't grow these where I live in western Oregon, USA, at least not without a greenhouse. I never heard of them before this video, but they sound yummy.
Thank you for all the great videos. Stay Well.
Hey man, love your videos! I know a few Colombians here in Brisbane who’d love a few of those lulos. If you get a chance, maybe try make a drink out of it. They call it ‘lulada’ give it a go & let us know mate
Hello I'm from Colombia and just had lulo juice for lunch…the juice can also be made with milk …delicious Also we have lulo ice cream and paleta (frozen juice with lots of sugar and a wooden stick) de lulo very appropriate for the hot days in Cali, Colombia . I have never eaten it straight from the bush but might give it a try with some salt..
MIne have a weird curling around the edge of the leaves. any idea Marc?
i just had some really tasty ones from Taiwan!
you probably will not read this, but I was wondering if you have any videos on growing kiwi?
Planted seeds of this last year after watching this video, our first set of fruit is setting now, can’t wait!!!!
The Naranjilla (pron. naran heeya), belongs to the nightshade family, a cousin to the tomato which is also a nightshade member.
The botanical name is, Solanum quitoense, and the botanical name for tomato is, Solanum lycopersicum.
Both are related to the Tamarillo (pron. tama rilo), Solanum betaceum.
Tamarillo is not a Spanish word. The word was developed in New Zealand as another name for the tree tomato, in order to distinguish it from the ordinary garden tomato and increase its exotic appeal.
Whenever you see a South American Spanish word with a 'J', that letter is pronounced as an 'H'.
The 'LL' or 'll', a double L to us, is pronounce like a full bodied 'Y' on the word 'you'.
The word 'Naranja' (naran-ha) means an orange (the fruit) and the ripened Naranjilla is orange in colour.
Brasil !!!
Oh gosh they were selling a spiny variety at a local nursery last year, and holy cow, those plants, they were like medieval torture devices in plant form.
This fruit is amazing. May I suggest mixing it with some rum! Like a margarita. It's amazing.
Great stuff! Lulo will be one of my next experiments….Greetings
Your video is very interesting, I bought the seeds from Bakers Seeds in USA, and planted 5 seedling in Feb. hoping by December it will produce fruits and have the chance to taste the fruits can't wait.
I recently bought one for 7€ on this super fancy market in the historic center of Munich, Germany. I extracted so many seeds. Made a lemonade out of the fruit. Awesome. Fruity and not like tomato at all.