FEIJOA, PINEAPPLE AND GINGER JAM - Real Recipes from Mums

My Nanna made jam for years, and this was one of her favourites. You can't beat the flavour of home-made jam! It's delicious on toast, scones, crumpets and even in a jam sandwich.

Ingredients (makes 8 cups)

2 1/2 kg Feijoas
1 1/2 cups Water
2 large Lemons
150 grams Crystallized Ginger (finely chopped)
125 grams Dried Pineapple (finely chopped)
Good pinch Ground Cardamom
2 kg Sugar

Method

Finely grate zest from lemons, and juice them. Scoop flesh from feijoas, dice flesh roughly and place in a large stockpot. Add water, stirring well, and simmer until fruit is soft.
Add lemon zest and juice, ginger, pineapple, cardamom and sugar. Stir well, and bring to a gentle boil. Stir constantly until sugar dissolves. Boil for 15-20 minutes, or until a teaspoon of jam popped onto a saucer sets when cooling. Stir the bottom frequently, and make sure the heat is not too high, or the bottom of the jam will burn. Feijoas are high in pectin so this can happen quickly.
Immediately pour jam into sterilized and heated (!) jars and seal. Leave to cool.

Notes

You could use a 440 gm tin of crushed pineapple instead of dried pineapple. If you do this, drain the pineapple really well, and use the juice in place of some of the water. Feijoas may be hard to find, but if you ask at your local Fruit & Veg shop, they may be able to get them for you. Or if you know some of your neighbours (especially elderly folk), ask them if they've got a feijoa tree in their garden. We're lucky enough to have a feijoa tree in our yard, so if you live in Adelaide, leave me a message and I'll contact you when the fruit is in season.

44 Comments

- - mom487789 said
  - 22 Apr 2022
    7:24 pm
Is the 2.5kgs of feijoas the peeled or unpeeled amount?

- - mom156049 said
  - 25 Jun 2017
    12:07 am
great recipe – i’myet to make my own jam so this may be my first

- - mom112217 said
  - 31 Dec 2016
    12:32 pm
An exciting recipe,it sound’ great! Thanks!
- mom93821 replied
  
  04 May 2020 , 6:02 am
  Exciting recipes do stimulate the cooking senses.
- - taynik46 said
  - 04 Apr 2016
    2:01 pm
I have never tried Feijoas – but this sounds like a great jam. Printed off and adding it to my little black book of things to try

- - mom109229 said
  - 29 Jun 2015
    9:47 pm
I will share this with my Mum. I know she’ll love it!

- - GeoEllie said
  - 26 Jan 2015
    1:49 am
Oh feijoas! Can’t wait to try this unique recipe!

- - mom94125 said
  - 02 Nov 2014
    10:52 pm
thanks for sharing this recipe though

- - mom93821 said
  - 27 Oct 2014
    7:28 am
Thanks for sharing this recipe; it sounds very interesting and worth making and tasting.

- - mom94125 said
  - 11 Oct 2014
    6:07 pm
i don’t know what feijoa is though

- - kazh said
  - 29 Aug 2014
    9:56 pm
Never even heard of feijoa

- - Happymum-2 said
  - 24 Aug 2014
    4:55 pm
a very tasty sounding jam

- - ginoula5 said
  - 10 Aug 2014
    6:05 pm
ohh this looks good, have not tried feijoas, must try this, thanks for sharing

- - mouse said
  - 31 Jul 2014
    7:47 pm
a very interesting jam recipe

- - rachkap said
  - 28 Jul 2014
    12:37 am
Looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!

- - scottie said
  - 27 Jul 2014
    10:25 am
I love finding new jam recipes

- - kathryn said
  - 25 Jul 2014
    9:43 am
I love jams with ginger in them

- - cheezel said
  - 24 Jul 2014
    9:29 am
I’ve never had Feijoas before

- - Michelle said
  - 20 Jul 2014
    3:45 pm
I can remember helping my Grandmother to make jam, kitchen smelled wonderful. I like your recipe.

- - mom70050 said
  - 16 Jul 2014
    9:50 am
Yum yum yum! cannot wait for to harvest my feijoas next season

- - kathryn said
  - 09 Jul 2014
    5:04 pm
our local farmers market had these – will have to ask if they can get some more