The summery yellow mirabelle plums, small relatives of the plum, are versatile and delight with the intensively fruity taste of their flesh. However, before you can process the light delicacies into tasty juice, finely aromatic jam and more, you should deseed them. Our guide tells you the best way to do this.

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Stone Mirabelle plums - a brief introduction to the usual variants

There are various methods of pitting mirabelle plums - the following are typical:

  • with a stoner
  • with a knife

Pit the mirabelle plums with a stoner

As with some other fruits, you can also try removing the pits from mirabelle plums with a pitter. For this purpose, simply use a plum, plum or cherry stoner.

Coring the mirabelle plums with such a device can be done quickly and easily - but unfortunately it can also be a terrible mess. Some Mirabelle plums are very stubborn: their flesh is so attached to the stone that a lot of flesh comes with it when the stone is pulled out. The consequences: an increasingly dirty work surface from the juice splashes and a large loss of pulp. In addition, using a stoner to remove the stone from "problem mirabelles" is extremely tedious.

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Sometimes the mirabelle plums don't come off the stone well because they aren't quite ripe yet. Be sure to only pit fruit that is fully ripe.

Pit the mirabelle plums with a knife

Most hobby gardeners pit their plums with a sharp knife. Although this variant requires an additional step, the work can generally be done without any unsightly mud.

Follow our short step-by-step guide:

  1. Wash the plums thoroughly and dry them.
  2. Halve the fruit with a sharp knife - without damaging the pit. So basically cut around the stone. After a few tries it will surely work like clockwork.
  3. Remove the stone from each halved mirabelle plum by hand. You may have to use a little force here. Be careful not to waste too much pulp, after all it contains valuable substances.

Alternative solution: off through the "Fleet Lotte"

If you are dealing with mirabelle plums that absolutely do not want to be pitted in a sensible way, you can use an alternative variant: Put the washed fruit in the "Flotte Lotte", a high-performance pass mill that presses the pulp into a pulp and in the course whose sifts out the kernels. Although you can then only use the mirabelle plums as a liquid ingredient, you save a lot of effort and effort.

Note: Before passing through the "Flotte Lotte" it is advisable to briefly (!) boil the mirabelle plums with a little water. Then pour the juice (the “mirabelle water”) into a separate container. It shouldn't go into the food mill, otherwise you'll only get liters of thin liquid instead of mush.

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For example, you can use mirabelle plums to create delicious jam or conjure up a special smoothie creation.

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