Christmas happens to be my favourite time of the year, I've been doing an exercise past a couple of months to keep the nightmares away and that is to pen down happy memories before I go off to sleep, while doing so I was reminded of one such tasteful memory of christmas and more particularly guava cheese, my paternal aunt headed a school run by a british family and every christmas they would send us christmas sweets and goodies, of them the cheese used to be my favourite, hence I got my grandmother to eventually learn the recipe, although she did but it dint quite taste as good as the one uncle Everett used to send and since then (it must have been almost 14 years ) that I'm looking for the taste that lingers in my memory,until when I finally decided to give it a shot myself. First I tried the recipe which was passed on to my mother from my grandmother, it didn't go well at all since it was too complicated and just too many steps to follow. I tweaked that recipe to my suitability and came up with a super easy version of it and I relived the lingering taste in my memory. I hope you all enjoy this recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg Guava (preferably pink ones, since i couldn't find them i used the white )
- Sugar, equal to the guava pulp* (follow the instructions in the method )
- Lemon* 1/2 tsp per each cup of pulp
Method:
- Cut the guavas into 4 parts
- Pressure cook them for 2 steam releases with just enough water to cover them.
- Churn the cooked guavas with it water in a blender, into a pulp.
- Sieve the pulp to separate the seeds.
- Measure the pulp, and add equal quantity of sugar. *(1 Kg guava gives approximately 4 cups of pulp)
- In a heavy bottomed pan cook the pulp and sugar on medium heat, until it boils and starts bubbling.
- Add the lemon juice.
- Keep cooking until the mixture is thick and leaves the sides of the pan.*(add any colour you desire), this will approximately take 1.5 hours.
- Transfer the thickened pulp, in a greased pan.
- Allow it to cool overnight before you cut the cheese into cubes.
