Perad Pies (Guava Cheese Pies)
Perad Pies (Guava Cheese Pies)

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Recipe ► Perad / Guava Cheese is a melt in mouth goan delicacy especially made during Christmas, made with guavas, sugar and other ingredients. Arrange guava slices on the bottom of the prepared pie crust, mounding slices of guava in the center of the crust. Sprinkle guavas with flour and sugar mixture.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook perad pies (guava cheese pies) using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Perad Pies (Guava Cheese Pies):
  1. Make ready Guava Cheese / Goan Perad
  2. Make ready 2 Guavas large sized
  3. Prepare as needed Water for boiling
  4. Take 1 cup Sugar
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp Ghee or extra if prefered
  6. Make ready Pie dough
  7. Take 50 gram Fresh Green Peas
  8. Get 2 tbsp Water or required for pureeing
  9. Prepare 4 tablespoon Sugar
  10. Take 1 cup Wheat flour
  11. Get 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  12. Prepare pinch Nutmeg Powder
  13. Get 1 teaspoon Ghee

Today's Goan dessert food recipe is the most loved Perad(Guava Cheese) which is a Christmas special. It is very appetizing dessert but pretty a particular task. Perad is a another well known Goan delicacy that serves two purposes, it can be eaten for breakfast on toast when it is not This recipe will teach you to make the thick dark red Goan Perad. Perade is how my mother spells it in the Jam form is removed a little earlier from the fire when its light red in color, it.

Steps to make Perad Pies (Guava Cheese Pies):
  1. Slice 2 large guavas. Add water to immerse sliced guavas and boil until guavas turn soft and pale. Cool completely.
  2. Meanwhile, In a blender, take 50 grams fresh green peas. Add 4 tablespoon sugar. Blend all together into a smooth thick paste by adding little water.
  3. In a bowl, take 1 cup wheat flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, a big pinch nutmeg powder.
  4. Add the ground green peas paste and knead into a smooth dough. Add a teaspoon ghee and grease dough completely. Cover and rest the dough for 30minutes.
  5. Coming to our guavas, blend the boiled guava pieces along with little guava boiled liquid into a smooth paste. Filter and keep aside.
  6. Heat a wide pan in low heat. Add the guava paste and a cup of sugar. Keep stirring every 2 minutes until sugar melts completely. Do it in low heat.
  7. Add a tablespoon ghee. Add extra if prefered. Stir and cook until guava paste turns nonsticky. Transfer the guava mass into a ghee greased plate. Spread and level the surface as we do for mysore pak. Cool completely and cut into squares. Goan Perad is ready.
  8. Coming to our green pie dough, divide the final dough into 2 parts. Roll one part of the dough into a medium thickness large roti. Use a round cookie cutter to cut even circles.
  9. Make a slight incision at the centre of few circles. The ones with hole will be the pie top while the rest the bottom.
  10. Place a perad square, medium sized ones preferably on the bottom smooth circle. The circle with hole to be placed on top covering the filling. Seal the pie completely. Use a fork to create prints over the corners.
  11. Similarly make all the pies. Transfer the pies to a greased baking tray. Bake pies inside a preheated pot. Preheating time 10 minutes. Baking time 15 minutes medium to high. Cover the pot and bake. Bake until pie crusts turn golden.
  12. Perad pies / Guava cheese Pies are ready.

Drain the water (store the water) and cool the guavas. Perad, also known as Guava Cheese is a very popular dessert from Goa. It is another dish that was brought to Goa by the Portuguese. It has a texture like a fudge and can be used as a spread over toast. It can be had as a dessert or used as a filling to make pies and pastries.

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