Guava Cheese

Total Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 kg soft guavas
• 1 kg sugar (amount based on how much pulp you get out of the guavas)

Recipe

• 1 cut the guavas into quarters and remove the seeds.
• 2 put the seeds in a sieve and add a small amount of water.
• 3 rub into the sieve and press down with a flat spoon so as to extract the pulp surrounding the seeds, into a bowl kept below the sieve.
• 4 blend the gauva pieces to a smooth pulp in your food processor.
• 5 measure how many cups of pulp you have - include the pulp removed from around the seeds.
• 6 put all the pulp into a large, flat, heavy-bottomed dish on a medium flame.
• 7 add sugar to the amount of one cup less than the number of cups of guava pulp.
• 8 for example, if you had 6 cups of pulp, add 5 cups of sugar to it.
• 9 cook, stirring frequently, till it becomes hard to stir and the guava cheese begins to come away from the sides of the pan.
• 10 grease a platter and spoon the guava cheese onto it.
• 11 spread into a thick layer.
• 12 allow to cool a little and while still warm, cut into diamond shapes.
• 13 when completely cooled, store in an air-tight container.