How to Make Guava Dipping Sauce

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 fresh guava at my 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
• 1 cup of water
• 1 tablespoon of lime juice
• 1 tablespoon of flour
• 1 teaspoon of maple syrup or honey

Directions:

• Use a knife, to 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/honey. Stir.
• Let it cook for about 15 minutes. Stir it every few minutes to help dissolve the guava paste. The sauce will eventually come to a boil. Monitor and stir until all the guava paste cubes are dissolved into the sauce.
• Once the guava paste cubes have dissolved and the sauce is liquidy, add the flour. Note: Be sure to add the flour through sieve to avoid flour clumps.
• Lower the heat. Let the sauce cook some more. Continue to stir to remove any flour clumps, but don’t worry, we will remove them later.
• Remove from heat. Note: If you still have flour clumps remaining, carefully pour the sauce through a sieve and into a bowl. The sieve will hold all the flour clumps.
• Place into a glass container and let it cool on your kitchen counter for 30 minutes.
• Enjoy with deditos de queso, on toast, a wine board, or as a dip!
• Store in an airtight container in the fridge.
• Yields about 1 ½ cups of sauce.