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

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, perad pies (guava cheese pies). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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

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

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. Drizzle pie filling with lime juice and dot with butter pieces. Guava is a versatile fruit that goes great in pies.

Instructions 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.

Sprinkle the flour and sugar mixture evenly over 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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