Guava Paste Recipe

Name: Guava Paste Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 95 min
Yield: 30 Guava paste sweets
Ingredients: 2.2 pounds Guavas; 2 cup Water; 4 cups Brown Sugar

Last updated on June 27, 2019 By Helene Dsouza 37 Comments

Guava Paste (aka Guava Cheese, Goiabada) is a sweet delicacy which is common in former Portuguese colonies and several tropical regions in this world.

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What are Guava fruits?

Guavas are a tropical fruit variety, available in different shapes.

The inside, when ripe, can be either white, pink or deep red.

The pulp gets softer when it ripens and is a bit grainy.

The seed pod is soft but the Guava seeds are stone hard.

Guava seeds are not eaten but you spit them out when eaten raw.

So, there are many different kinds of Guavas varieties in this world, just as there are different apple types.

Some are bigger, some are rounder but most have one thing in common.

Guavas emit this wonderful fruity and inviting smell the moment they ripen and they do ripen very quickly in a warm and humid environment.

If you keep your Guavas in the fridge you will be able to prologue the ripening.

If you keep them out you will have your Guavas turning from deep green to yellow in 2 days!

How to eat Guava fruit?

The easiest way to enjoy a Guava fruit is to just bite into a ripe Guava and to spit out the seeds.

Now if you don’t know, if your store bought Guavas were treated with pesticides, then you might need to cut off the skin.

That’s why you should always buy organic and untreated Guava fruits because the skin is very edible and contains a lot of health benefiting vitamins.

First time I came across Guavas was in Europe in form of a Juice.

And yes again!

Guava juice tastes amazing as well and actually, you can make your own juice too easily.

How to make Guava Juice?

You basically just need to do the first step of the Guava paste preparation (see further below Recipe & video, which is cutting the clean fruits, boiling them soft, blending to a smooth paste and ultimately straining the paste.

You can store the paste in the freezer (just the way I did with this papaya paste here) and take out small batches to mix/blend with water.

Serve then with crushed ice cold!

Besides the juice, you can make Guavas jam too!

Again, this is something I had for the first time on the Caribbean French islands as a kid, together with banana jam, and it was so pure in flavor that the memory stayed forever with me.

To make Guavas Jam…

… you need to follow the same Guavas cheese Recipe procedure from further below, but you don’t cook the jam that long.

You just need to cook the jam on slow heat for about 30 minutes or until it thickens a bit.

Then check if it’s set by placing some of the jam on a cold plate and if it runs just keep it for a little more time on low heat before repeating the running test.

Store in clean jars and enjoy on your breakfast bread!

If you are interested, then I can make a full Guava Jam recipe.

Let me know in the comments if there is interest.

And of course, you can make Guava Paste as well!

Guava cheese is of course not a milk product, it’s just the name for this sweet dish in places such as in Goa, India.

(former Portuguese colony)

In other parts of the world, such as in Brazil (translated) and the English speaking countries, Guava cheese might be better known as Guava paste.

I did read somewhere, I just can’t recall at the moment where, that the Portuguese used Guavas for the first time in the tropical south Americas when they didn’t have quince fruits around them to make thick quince jam.

That’s how Guava cheese came to be!

This reminds me somehow of the egg liqueur and avocado story, the ingredients substitution was because they had no choice and in that way, they discovered something wonderful!

How to make Guava Cheese/Guava Paste from scratch? [Video]

To make Guava cheese is super easy but very time consuming!

I am not going to lie to you even I got impatient at some point while cooking it.

I ended up with way too much video footage for the Guava cheese making that I had to shorten the video to make it all fit into the video time frame.

Yet, Guava cheese is worth all the trouble and the time spend making this amazing natural sweet from scratch!

I usually don’t like sweets but Guava cheese is my ultimate cryptonite!

Guava Cheese made from scratch melts in the mouth, it’s fruity sweet being clouds my reason and I take in each bite before picking up another one, of course in full automatic mode.

Also, Guava Cheese only requires 3 ingredients: Fresh ripe Guava fruits, Sugar and water, that’s it!

First you prepare the seedless pulp before slow stir fry cooking it with sugar and some water for at least 90 minutes ( yeah I know but just think of the amazing sweet reward!!!) until the paste thickens to a candy consistency.

Then you just need it to cool and cut it however you want.

As I said, making Guava Cheese is easy, it’s just time consuming, so you should do that on a day off when you have some time for yourself.

For the full recipe with detailed instructions in black and white, please see further below the Guava cheese recipe card.