Guava (pronounced: gwah-vah) is a sweet tropical fruit. It is often incorporated into Colombian sweets and is one of my favorite flavors. I love dipping deditos de queso into it, drizzling it on an arepa, adding it to a charcuterie board, or using it as a spread on bagels. Guava sauce is also perfect for dessert. I love to add warm guava sauce to vanilla ice cream and sprinkle with lime zest.
This guava sauce is sweet, fruity, and smooth. If you have never tasted it, I would say it tastes like a combination of berries mixed with mango and lime.
Since I don’t have access to guava at my local grocery store, I usually just buy guava paste and melt it down for the sauce. Give it a try and you will be making this weekly!
For a video reference on how to make guava sauce, check out my reel on Instagram.
What You’ll Need:
- 150 grams of guava paste (cut into cubes)
- 1 cup of water
- 1 tablespoon of lime juice
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- 1 teaspoon of maple syrup or agave
Directions:
- Cut the guava paste into small cubes.
- In a small pot over low/medium heat, add the guava paste, water, lime juice, and maple syrup. Stir.
- The sauce will eventually come to a boil. Let it cook for about 15 minutes and be sure to stir it every few minutes to help dissolve the guava paste. Eventually all the guava paste cubes will dissolve into the sauce.
- Once the guava paste cubes have dissolved and the sauce looks liquidy, add the flour. Note: Be sure to pour the flour into the pot through a strainer to ensure fine powder and to avoid flour clumps.
- Let the sauce boil some more and continue to stir to remove an flour clumps (about 5 mins).
- Enjoy with deditos de queso, on toast, on a wine board, or as a dip!
- Yields about 1 ½ cups of sauce.
