Might 3, 2023 • Class: Sweet Pastries, Pastries/Breads
This taste combo (cream cheese and guava paste) is one I just lately found in Mexico. I used to be there just some weeks in the past for Spring break, and tried it as soon as at my favourite coffee chain there. It was the stuffing in a roll (can’t bear in mind what sort of roll). Fabulous! The combo of the marginally tart creamy cheese with the candy fruity berry tasting guayaba paste was to-die-for! The guava paste jogged my memory of the quince jelly we make in Lebanon. Come to consider it, why can we not consider this combo? (say with areeshe cheese or labneh??).
Anyway, musings apart, I made a decision to attempt to recreate this particularly since I needed to contribute pastries to a fundraiser to assist the earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey.
I used puff pastry I purchased, the highest quality I may get my fingers on, and I additionally used ready-made empanada circles with a puff pastry within the freezer part of my favourite Latino market. The clear winner (taste-wise) is the French-style puff pastry. The empanada dough package deal makes it tremendous straightforward as a result of the dough is precut and you may fill it in a snap. Nonetheless, it isn’t as delicate in texture and flaky because the puff pastry.
I’m discovering out this can be a very talked-about dessert in Brazil in addition to different Latin and Caribbean nations equivalent to Cuba, Panama, the place it’s known as pastelitos de guava or guayaba.
Cream cheese and guava paste pastries
Joumana Accad
Mediterranean, Center Jap
Might 3, 2023
Candy Pastries, Pastries/Breads,
candy pastry, cream cheese, empanada, puff pastry, guava paste, guayaba,
12 rolls servings
Prep Time: 1 hour
Prepare dinner Time: 12 minutes
Substances
1 pkg cream cheese, at room temperature (8 ounces)
1 pkg of guava paste, at room temperature (8 ounces)
1 pkg of puff pastry, at room temperature (1 lb)
1 giant egg, overwhelmed with a tablespoon of cream or milk or water
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375F (190C)
- Roll out the puff pastry till it’s skinny (2 mm. or 1/8 inch) and rating into squares (about 4 cm or 2 inches vast).
- Place one tablespoon of cream cheese and a small sq. of guava paste over the cheese
- Brush some egg wash throughout the pastry
- Fold the pastry to kind a triangle or fold all sides to kind a pocket.
- Brush the floor with egg wash
- Bake for about 10 minutes or till golden brown and puffy
- Cool a couple of minutes and serve lukewarm with a cup of espresso or tea.
Recipe Notes
The identical approach is used with precut empanada dough. Comply with the directions on the package deal as I did and the outcomes are foolproof. I’d estimate the variety of servings after which use the quantity of cheese and guava paste and pastry accordingly.
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