Strawberry guava jam - a special kiwi jam!

Strawberry-guava jam on a greekstyle yogurt... Yummy!!

What's better than a homemade jam to mix into a creamy greekstyle yogurt or to eat with the fresch French baguette you've just made?

New Zealand has a lot of surprises for tourists but also for kiwi themsleves. In my new house, I have a very nice garden with several fruit trees. Some were very easy to identify... golden peach, perfec for yummy puree, passion fruits, grappes, lemon tree... and one tree had many little red fruits that smells strawberries but are obviously not strawberries! Hard to figure out what are those fruits... most of the kiwi I know could not tell me...

The mysterious fruits in my garden

Guava

The gardener said: "I'm pretty sure it's eatable..."
Well, "eatable"... cool... let's try... weird taste, but nice... Wikipedia says "taste like passion fruits with strawberry".

He also said: "Well, might be guava..."

Actually, those do not really look like guava... but definitively smell like strawberries and have got little stone inside, just like guava...

The gardener was not so far from the truth:
Those fruits are "Strawberry guava"!!
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psidium_littorale

Strawberry guava are good to eat fresch like many fruits... But I have so many, what could I do with?
Let's try a strawberry guava jam!

Ingredients:

1kg strawberry guava

1kg jam sugar

1 lemon

1 tsp of salted butter

Preparation:
Cut the biggest strawberry guava in two. Mix the fruits and the sugar together in a big pot and mash them. Add the lemon juice.
Then heat the mixture over a low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. Do not let boiling.
Add the butter and increase the heat until it boils (strong boil that cannot be stopped when stirred). Let it boil for 5 minutes and test the jam. Spoon out a small amount of jam onto a cold plate, let cooling down and test. If the consistence is like you want, remove the post from heat, if not, continue to heat until you get the desired consistence.
Strain the jam through a skimmer (or something similar) to remove the nursery out of the jam.
Bottle immediately in pre-boiled jars. The jam is definitively ready when cold.

Enjoy, you are somewhere on an island like NZ or Hawaï in the middle of the Pacific ocean!

Bay of Islands, NZ