Marinated Guavas and Apples

This was made for Bee Bee to thank her for helping me to collect the lotus paste that Shirley had helped us to purchase. And also of her generosity to share with me one of the two Korean peaches that Shirley had given her. On top of that, Bee Bee also passed me 2 moonies that she made, I am already have 口福 :P. Initially I thought of just taste a bit (since I have to watch my waistline) but at the end, I finished one moonie by myself hahaha... very delicious that made me wanted to have more :)

Thank you Bee Bee and Shirley!

Bee Bee likes to eat achar but I have yet to learn how to make it (of course I can't let a cooking cum baking expert to be my guinea pig :P) so I made a simple and easy version of appetizer for her. I had made this appetizer before and it tasted so addictive that you just can't stop eating, it was a hit in my office when I brought to share with my colleagues
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This appetizer needs to marinate for 6 to 8 hrs in order to be more tasty, the fruits will turn softer when marinated time is longer. I prefer crunchiness than soft, so I do not want to marinate it overnight cos by the time I passed to Bee Bee which is the next day late afternoon, the fruits will definitely become soft.


So I woke up early morning at 6am plus to make this appetizer. While I was slicing the guavas, dear daughter woke up and cried for me so I had to go to her and tug her to sleep again. I shown the sliced guavas to my helper and asked her to follow those as samples and help me to slice the rest of the fruits.

After dear daughter had fell asleep, I went back to the kitchen to continue the preparation. I was upset when I saw those sliced fruits, my helper had sliced the fruits so thick compared to mine. When I asked her, she still replied me innocently that she sliced according to my samples. Hello! Even BABIES also will know that the thickness are so different, the thinnest that she sliced are still thicker by at least 2 times of mine. Urgh.... I told her she is making me more busy than helping me, I need to re-slice all the fruits again.

Hope Bee Bee will like this appetizer, the balance of about 1/2 portion that I kept for own consumption had finished the next day and dear daughter likes it a lot.

This is the preserved mandarin peels that I used.

Recipe adapted from Kitchen Caper forum.

Ingredients :
3 large guava *
2 medium size apple *
2 packet preserved mandarin peels, 15g per packet (you may increase if you prefer sweeter and saltier)
1 chilli (optional)
10 limes (you may cut down if you dun like too sourish)

* total weight of 1.3kg for the guava and apples after remove the core and seeds. ** ingredients for original recipe are 3 guava, 2 packets preserved mandarin peels and 1 chilli (optional)

Methods :
1. Seeded the guavas and apples and slice thinly, approx 2mm thick or your desire size. (You may remove the skin)
2. Slice the mandarin peels thinly.
3. Remove the seeds of the chilli, and slice the chilli thinly into stripes.
4. Obtain the lime juice and chop up 1 lime.
5. Mix guavas, apples, mandarin peels, lime juice, chopped lime and chilli together. Toss to mix well.
6. Transfer into a plastic container and store in fridge for 6 to 8 hrs b4 serving.
7. Serve chilled.