Where to buy yuzu in australia

I'd like to be notified when this product is in stock: Lemon. Please enter a number from 1 to This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Pre Order Bare Root Tree. Pre Order Bare Root Trees. I'd like to pre-order the tree: Lemon. But there are a few younger chefs coming through now. They sell the citrus to Sokyo in Sydney, as well as Minamishima in Melbourne. Like Buchanan, they noticed a growing interest for yuzu.

Here, the fruit is used in a marmalade and crumb for a yuzu cronut. The people who know we have the fruit like it quite a bit. Yuzu like a cold winter, they are quite hardy. Even if we have hot summers, we have nice cool nights. That difference between the daytime and night-time temperature makes for a better flavour.

Conditions where we live are really good. Depending where the grower is in Australia, the season ranges from a few weeks to a few months, somewhere between February to July. Yuzu is incredibly versatile. Buchanan likes yuzu-flavoured beer , while Casey loves the citrus in desserts like sorbet and marshmallows.

At the moment, he makes a chawanmushi Japanese egg custard dish with spanner crab, shaved truffles, Parmesan chips, and a burnt butter and yuzu sauce.

By Michael Koziol May 23, — Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size. License this article. Connect via Twitter or email. The season started in mid-May and was finished by the end of the month, and the Arnold family's 26 trees produce about kilograms of fruit, which has been snapped up by high-end chefs. When asked how he'd describe the fruit, David Arnold said, "um, ugly". While resembling a lemon on the outside, inside it is full of seeds and often has patches of brown on the flesh.

In the s he was hosting a number of tour buses, of mainly Japanese tourists, who visited his acre bush tucker and exotic fruit property.

He has approximately trees and supplies markets in Sydney and Brisbane and directly to restaurants, especially Japanese restaurants on the Gold Coast. The fruit's aroma and the oil in the skin of yuzu has meant, in Japan, it is manufactured into body products, and Buck Buchanan has his own line of shampoos and lotions. With yuzu requiring chilly overnight temperatures to ripen, the largest producer is based near Bright in the Victorian Alps.

Mountain Yuzu started planting yuzu trees in and in the season just finished harvested about 4 tonnes of fruit from the acre property. Owners Brian and Jane Casey were chestnut growers but lost all their trees to disease in , so turned their attention to yuzu.

To avoid being pricked by the 10cm long thorns on the trees, the Caseys use secateurs attached to the end of a pole.