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Guava Duff

Name: Guava Duff
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Bahamas
Ingredients: 4 (or canned guava) Guava; 250g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 120g Butter; 150g Sugar; 1 Egg; 80ml Milk; 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder; A pinch Nutmeg; 2 tbsp Rum; 50g Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Dough rolled around guava, steamed, and topped with sweet butter sauce — the Bahamas' famous dessert.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Guava duff is the Bahamas' signature dessert: guava pulp is spread on dough, rolled up like a Swiss roll, wrapped in cloth, and steamed. It's sliced and topped with a warm sauce of butter and sugar, sometimes with rum. It was born when British steamed pudding met Caribbean fruit.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Christmas in a Bahamian home, a steaming pink swirl roll is sliced and drizzled with warm sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Guava 4 (or canned guava)
All-purpose flour 250g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Butter 120g
Sugar 150g
Egg 1
Milk 80ml
Cinnamon powder 1/2 tsp
Nutmeg A pinch
Rum 2 tbsp
Powdered sugar 50g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Remove the guava skin and seeds, mash the pulp, and cook down with 50g sugar.
Bring together the flour, baking powder, 50g butter, 50g sugar, egg, milk, and spices into a dough.
Roll the dough into a rectangle, spread with the guava, and roll up from one end.
Wrap in parchment paper and foil and steam for 1 1/2 hours.
Pour over a warmed sauce of the remaining butter, powdered sugar, and rum.

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