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Guava Cheese

Name: Guava Cheese
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Dominica
Ingredients: 1kg Guava; 400g Sugar; 2 tbsp Lime juice; 10g Butter; To taste Granulated sugar; 200ml Water

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Guava pulp cooked down with sugar and set — a Dominican Christmas sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Guava cheese isn't cheese at all but a sweet of guava pulp slowly cooked down with sugar and set, made across the Caribbean islands. In Dominica it's made at home around Christmas, cut into squares, rolled in sugar, and wrapped in paper to give away.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Christmas in a Dominican home, reddish-brown guava paste is cut into squares, rolled in sugar, and wrapped in paper.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Guava 1kg
Sugar 400g
Lime juice 2 tbsp
Butter 10g
Granulated sugar To taste
Water 200ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the guavas and simmer with water for 15 minutes until soft.
Blend, then strain to remove the seeds.
Put the purée, sugar, and lime juice in a pot over medium heat.
Cook down for 40–50 minutes, stirring constantly, until you can see the bottom of the pot and it pulls away from the sides, then add the butter.
Pour into a buttered pan, chill to set, cut into squares, and roll in sugar.

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