It's guava season in my backyard, so this weekend it was time for me to decide how to best use the few pink guavas that managed to survive continual attacks by insects, birds, and gardeners. (Yes, last week I discovered that the gardeners had helped themselves to two of my earliest-to-ripen guavas, much to my dismay!)
I love the perfumed, tropical, sweet smell of guavas. They are an amazing fruit, rendered even more mesmerizing by their wonderful pink color. What a sight they are once cut through with a knife.
Yesterday I had a craving for both waffles and guavas, so I decided to experiment a little and try making pink guava waffles. I couldn't find a recipe for such a thing, so I experimented and came up with the following. To my culinary glee, they turned out great. For additional fun I topped them with some longan fruits and powdered sugar.
1. To prepare the waffles, I first combined 1/4 stick butter, 2 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, and 4 tsp baking powder and mixed in an electric mixer.
2. Next I folded in 2 egg whites, 1 1/3 cup flour, and 1 3/4 cup almond milk. (Any kind of milk will do, but I use almond milk to avoid American dairy products due to Bovine Growth Hormone contamination.) I also added 1 tsp of powdered coconut milk.
3. I then scooped out the flesh of two pink guavas and added them to the mixture, until the waffle batter turned light pink.
4. Lastly I cooked the waffles in a waffle iron until crispy and topped them with longans and powdered sugar.
Yummy American style breakfast food with a tropical twist.
Comments
Oh! Gorgeous! I'm excited that you had some guavas make it all the way to the eating stage. Hooray!
My pepper plants are loaded down with fruit, now I'm just letting them all get as big as they can. The shishitos keep trying to take, but I keep losing them. That's okay though, they'll definitely be great for next year!
Posted by: Rose | August 27, 2006 06:13 AM
Never had guava before, looks very interesting!
Posted by: Jeff | August 27, 2006 06:15 AM
Rose: you know, I have the same problem with my shishitos too. They begin to grow and then sort of peter out. I'm hoping its just because the plant is still immature. What other kinds of peppers are you growing?
Jeff: give Kern's guava juice in the fresh fruit / dairy section a try. The taste is the same as my pink guavas... really tropical and yummy, and super fragrant.
Posted by: Evil Jonny | August 27, 2006 06:38 AM
EJ - These are very cool looking! I've never had a guava, but have seen them around here at least. I need a new waffle maker now too! Were they in an "american" style maker or the deeper belgian?
Posted by: Joe | August 27, 2006 04:39 PM
Oh boy! I LOVE guavas.....used to have sooo many growing on our trees back home in India that we didn't know what to do with them.
Your waffles look very tempting!
Posted by: Nabeela | August 28, 2006 02:50 PM
EJP: I'm also growing jalapenos and sweet banana peppers. :)
Posted by: Rose | August 29, 2006 04:30 AM
something different, i'd say. at first i thought it's gonna be some guava topping sauce.
Posted by: kong-kay | August 29, 2006 07:33 AM
Joe: these were made with a regular waffle maker -- the kind that flips over after you pour the batter.
Nabeela: I have long way to go before I get to that point! My guava tree was just planted about a year ago and I get about 3-5 a year. :-)
Kong: I thought about that... next time for sure!
Posted by: Evil Jonny | August 30, 2006 08:31 PM
I like pink guava juice, but pink guava waffles? Hmm.. wouldn't mind giving it a try.
Posted by: SkyJuice7 | August 31, 2006 08:24 PM