If you love feijoas and love crumble, this delicious slice recipe shared by Laura is perfect for you. An ideal way to enjoy your homegrown feijoas, this sweet treat is likely to become a family favourite at your place.
Ready within an hour, it's an easy to follow recipe that makes up to 16 squares (depending on how big or small you cut them!)
Ingredients:
Base + crumble
• 2 cups (280g) flour
• ½ cup rolled oats
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ⅛ tsp salt
• 125g butter, softened
• ½ cup (100g) brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
Feijoa filling
• 2 cups feijoas, scooped out of the skins (approx. 12-15 large feijoas, or 20 small)
• 1 Tbsp brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp flour
• ½ tsp cinnamon
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 32 minutes
Makes: 16 squares
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a 20cm square baking tin with baking paper.
- Whisk the flour, rolled oats, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or other large bowl beat the butter and sugar together on medium speed for a few minutes until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat again until combined.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix on low speed until the mixture comes together.
- Add 2½ cups (350g) of the mixture to the prepared baking tin. Set aside the remaining mixture. Using your hands or the back of a spoon, press the mixture firmly into the tin. Bake for 12 minutes or until just starting to go golden brown around the edges.
- While the base is baking, prepare the filling. Roughly chop the feijoas and add them along with the sugar, flour and cinnamon to a small bowl and mix together.
- Once the base has cooked, remove it from the oven and immediately pour over the feijoa filling. Spread it evenly over the base.
- Using your hands, crumble the remaining dough mixture over the fruit filling. It doesn’t matter if the crumbles are big, small or all different sizes.
- Put the slice back in the oven for a further 20 minutes, or until the crumble topping is starting to go golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and serve immediately with ice-cream and caramel sauce, or allow to cool in the tin before slicing and serving as bars.
The slice will keep well in an airtight container in the fridge for 5 days.
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Laura's Feijoa Crumble Slice Comments
I like that recipe. My feijoas are just starting to fall. Thank you.
Anthony Hodgson
Well done Laura, keep up the good work and it will pay off in the long run. Your garden is very similar to ours. Your feijoa slice crumble will be tried here thanks for a refreshed article.
David Brooks
Hi David, thanks for your feedback, we're pleased to hear you enjoyed Laura's article. We hope you enjoy the recipe too! Happy gardening and cooking.
Tui Team
Look forward to trying your recipe. Have tried many and all are different. Hopeing for a good crop this year. I often add apples
Kath
Made it today. Delicious.
Claire Oaks
Hi, I am not sure what is going on with our two Feijoa trees as we have only had a couple of fruit and they fell off when they were small to medium size. The gardener we brought it from told us how to grow them, and that they were alright in a pot. We fertilise when it said too. Could you give us some pointers. Thanks.
Pam Cowen
Hi Pam, I am guessing you planted your feijoas in pots. The main reason for fruit to drop prematurely is stress which can be due to inconsistent watering, insufficient sunlight, sudden temperature changes, frost or the over application of fertilisers. In a pot they could need watering 3-4 times a week in the growing season, depending upon the weather. If watering is infrequent the pot will dry out and the first thing the tree will do to save itself is to drop fruit. Another reason is due to incomplete pollination, feijoas are pollinated mostly by birds, so if the pots are not accessible to birds in the garden then pollination will not be as good. Depending upon which varieties you are growing, ensure your pot is large enough for the tree to grow, a pot the size of a half wine barrel would be best, you wouldn't want to go smaller than that. Use a quality potting mix that is free-draining such as Tui Citrus and Fruit mix to ensure there is good drainage, feijoas don't do well with poor drainage. Ensure the correct fertiliser is used and is suitable for fruit trees in pots, feijoas have a very fibrous root system, if it is over-applied it will cause burning of the roots. A controlled release fertiliser is best for plants in pots and containers, use Tui Enrich Fruit, Citrus, Tree & Shrub fertiliser, do not use blended fertilisers such as Tui Citrus Food for plants in pots and containers as it is too concentrated and has no control mechanism, so there is a high risk of burning plant roots, always follow pack directions for application rates. Make sure your trees are getting enough sunlight, and are protected from frost if you live in a frost prone region.
Lianne, Tui Team