20 Juicy Guava Recipes Make You Want To Enjoy Them Forever

Compared to other fruits, guavas haven’t been recognized much as there are still so few recipes with them as the main ingredient. And I feel that is such a waste as guavas produce such a distinct flavor that is suitable for various dishes.

Thus, in this article, I’ll show all stunning dishes made with various kinds of guavas, from side dishes to beverages. Some of them are original recipes, while others are like the upgraded version of the initial ones.

Have You Prepared Guavas For These Recipes?

If not, you should buy some guavas now as these recipes will make you want to make them right away. And don’t worry! These dishes are all foolproof, so even if you’re just a cooking beginner, you can still master them.

Side Dishes

1. Guava Chutney
2. Guava and Cream Cheese Dip
3. Guava BBQ Sauce
4. Guava Jam
5. Guava Salad

Main Dishes

6. Guava Curry
7. Guava Grilled Cheese

Desserts

Confections And Pastries

8. Guava Cheese (Pâte de Fruit)
9. Guava Bars
10. Guava Cheese Pop-Tarts
11. Guava Empanadas (Guava Cream Cheese Cuban Pastries/Pastelitos de Guayaba y Queso)
12. Guava Bread Pudding

Cakes

13. Hawaiian Guava Cake
14. Guava Cheesecake
15. Guava Cupcakes

Frozen Desserts

16. Guava Sorbet
17. Guava Ice Cream

Beverages

18. Hawaiian POG Juice
19. Guava Smoothie
20. Guava Atole

These beautiful dishes are waiting for you right below, so keep on scrolling!

You Won’t Believe Those Side Dishes Made Of Guavas

Regarding various information about guava and eating methods, side dishes always catch everyone’s attention. That’s because these recipes have signature appealing flavors and colors. Let’s see what guavas can do to elevate your regular side dishes!

Guava Chutney

If you are a fan of Indian food, you can’t skip this guava chutney. While mango, coriander, or mint chutney is more well-known, this guava version is no less tasty. And it contains lots of nutrients, making you more comfortable about eating lots of it.

The typical mixture for this recipe is guava, chilies, and coriander, making it pretty fresh and spicy. You can add lemon or ginger for a more complex flavor. Then, just blend your mixture in a mixer until it thickens to your liking.

Guava and Cream Cheese Dip

Forget your regular dips, it’s time to try this unique version with guava and cream cheese! I bet many of you are wondering whether this combination works. And let me tell you, yes, it does, and this dip is 100% not a dessert.

It’s pretty strange to have a dip that is both sweet and savory. But thanks to its conflicting flavors, this dish makes it impossible to stop. I once had my dinner with just this dip and different crackers, chips, and breadsticks.

Guava BBQ Sauce

If you think those store-bought BBQ sauces are flavorful, think again because now you know about this guava version. Just like other fruit BBQ sauce, you can use it to marinate all your meat. From my experiences, it goes the best with pulled pork and chicken.

Aside from being smoky, this dressing is sweet and spicy with a hint of sourness, making it an ideal choice to be one of the side dishes in your BBQ party. All that comes from its various components like paprika, cayenne, and mustard.

Not only does it look good, but this guava BBQ sauce also tastes amazing! Let’s see this video:

Guava Jam

Don’t mistake this recipe with guava cheese. While they taste pretty the same, guava jam is more liquid-like and often spread on toasts, bread, or pancakes.

You can make this jam from either white or pink guava, but I prefer the latter because it looks more appealing.

For a perfect jam, ensure that you remove every single seed from the jam. You don’t want to bite into those rock-hard seeds when enjoying your meal, right?

Guava Salad

Today, fruit salads are no longer a strange sight. Many people favor mixing vegetables with fruits as they bring more flavors and colors to the dish.

However, guavas are not a common ingredient for salads. I don’t know why myself since I use them a lot. Imagine you get fruit with apples’ texture and strawberries’ taste at the same time.

If you want to add them to your salad, make sure you remove as many seeds as possible as they can hurt your teeth when eating.

2 Flavorsome Guava Main Dishes For You To Try

Guava and main courses? Yes! Why not? I know that guavas are a fruit, but adding fruits to savory dishes has been improved by various chefs for years. So, straying away from the traditional route with guavas sounds like a decent idea, especially with those recipes below!

Guava Curry

Use fruit to make curry? This idea may make you churn your nose at first. But believe me, the result can blow your mind! All the seasonings will tone down the sweetness from guavas, creating a perfect balance for your curry.

And this dish can go well with any Indian accompaniments, like rotis, parathas, puris, or other flatbread. If you can’t find or make them yourselves, serve this curry with some rice, or you can even eat it on its own.

This guava curry will fill your stomach in no time! Let’s see this video:

Guava Grilled Cheese

Here is a quick twist to liven up your everyday breakfast menu: Use guava for your grilled cheese. I never think adding sweetness to a savory dish like grilled cheese can be so intriguing like this.

Everything you need for an ideal recipe will condense into a simple grilled cheese: richness from the cheese, crunchiness from slightly burnt toasts, and obviously sweetness from guava.

And if you want some heat, try adding sliced jalapeno to the filling.

These Guava Desserts Will Make You Forget About Everything Else

Guavas are a fruit, and fruit is indeed an ideal ingredient to make desserts. And, with guavas, your knowledge about desserts will be broadened by a mile as they are the main components for some unique sweet treats.

You’ll Want Those Confections And Pastries For Your Midday Snack

If you crave for something exciting aside from those regular candies and bread, these desserts below should be on your list right away!

Guava Cheese (Pâte de Fruit)

It’s called “cheese,” but it doesn’t really belong to the cheese category. Sounds confusing, doesn’t it? Here is a more straightforward explanation for this sweet treat: It’s like fruit paste made of guava and sugar with a texture similar to fudges.

Aside from these two ingredients, you can add lime for extra sourness. Not to mention, the scent of lime makes this dish even more fragrant. Guava cheese tastes delicious enough on its own, but you can use it as a garnish for your toasts, cheesecakes, etc.

Guava Bars

These bars are suitable for friend gatherings or even when you just want to snack on while working. Since the filling is mainly guava cheese, these bars are not oversweet, so people not too fond of desserts can enjoy them.

Personally, crumble bars with guava paste and oatmeals are tasty enough. But feel free to innovate based on your preferences. For example, adding dark chocolate for more bitterness or shredded coconuts for more texture.

These guava bars are so easy that you can make them with your eyes closing! Let’s see this video:

Guava Cheese Pop-Tarts

Your children insist on all the sweet junk food and refuse to eat any fruits or veggies? Well, how about making these guava pop tarts? I make them for my kids, and they never ask for other sweets.

The secret is including guava in both filling and glaze. As for the filling, since guava paste and cream cheese are a dream-like couple, you don’t have to think of other options. When I have more time, I usually make a glaze with guavas too. But a drizzle of condensed milk is good enough.

Guava Empanadas (Guava Cream Cheese Cuban Pastries/ Pastelitos de Guayaba y Queso)

If you don’t know what to do with your guava cheese, make it into these lovely empanadas. Imagine turnovers or jam-filled donuts but much better as these empanadas are filled with not only guava paste but also cream cheese.

This combination is all about sweetness and sourness, harmonizing and complimenting each other. And it’s even tastier when piping hot as the filling will ooze out behind the crunchy crust after each bite.

Guava and cream cheese tastes even better with these empanadas! Let’s see this video:

Guava Bread Pudding

Bread pudding has always been a familiar dessert in many households. And now, with guavas, this well-known dessert gets elevated to a new height, significantly when you can alter this recipe to your likings.

My favorite way is making a rum caramel sauce for the topping, as the wine’s flavor brings more depth to your dessert. Or, if you want to make this dish children-friendly, you can go the other way by adding cheese to the sauce.

Guavas Act As A Perfect Complementary For These Cakes

Forget your store-bought cakes full of sugar and sweeteners! These guava cakes are ideally sweet without using too much sugar. Why? It’s because the natural sweetness from this fruit is enough for your dessert.

Hawaiian Guava Cake

If you are looking for some desserts for your daughter’s birthday or a date night, this scrumptious dish from Hawaii should be on your list.

Simply put, this cake contains three main parts: Sponge cake with guava flavor, cream cheese in the filling, and a guava gel glaze on top. You can use either guava nectar or juice to produce the flavor.

Guava cake tastes best when served cold, so you should chill it overnight in your fridge.

Guava Cheesecake

As I’ve said multiple times before, guava and cheese are born for each other. So, there’s no way I won’t mention this guava cheesecake.

There are two options to make this dessert: The first one requires mixing melted guava paste with cream cheese entirely until the mixture turns pink. The other way is for when you don’t have much time. You just need to pour the melted guava paste into the filling and stir it a bit.

This guava cheesecake will be the star of your dessert party! Let’s see this video:

Guava Cupcakes

Compared to other guava desserts, there are no fixed recipes for these cupcakes. Some make vanilla cupcakes with guava frosting, while others insert guava cubes into the batter before baking.

Whatever option you choose, this dessert always turns out delicious as you want it to be. And I prefer making them more than a giant cake as I can easily divide them among my friends and family.

These Frozen Guava Desserts Will Save You From Hot Summer Days

Those sweet treats are tasty, but they require much cooking and baking, totally unsuitable for summer. So, when the temperature starts rising, these frozen recipes below will surely cool your head!

Guava Sorbet

Sorbet is usually considered a last-minute dessert. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t delicious. In fact, it’s my all-time favorite sweet treat when summer comes. It’s cool, it’s quick, and it’s packed with fruit’s flavor. What else can I ask for a dessert?

While berries or other tropical fruits are familiar choices, I’ll use guavas instead in this recipe, as you can find them anytime in a year. Or, if your area doesn’t sell guavas, guava nectar is a decent substitute.

Guava Ice Cream

While sorbet is my solution to get away with the hot weather, my children prefer guava ice cream more as it’s more satisfying and can hold up for a longer time.

My family favors pink guavas for their beautiful color, but you can use white ones as well. Their flavors aren’t very different. Also, besides this fruit, you can use other ingredients to create more flavors to your ice cream, like cheese, berries, etc.

These guava ice creams are perfect for summer. Let’s see this video:

Enjoy 3 Beverages Packed With Guava Flavor!

Not only foods but guavas are also used to make flavorful drinks. Just one sip of them, you’ll feel like sitting by a beach in a tropical country.

Hawaiian POG Juice

You may wonder about its strange name, especially the “POG” part. Actually, it’s just an acronym for three fruits in this juice: Passionfruit, orange, and guava.

POG is one of those prevalent sweet recipes in Hawaii. It’s so well-loved that people here make it into a flavor for all kinds of drinks and desserts, from sodas, cocktails to popsicles.

However, I still like the original POG version the best, consisting of three fruit juices mixed together. Simple as that, but since it doesn’t need any additional sugar or sweeteners, this drink is much healthier and fresher.

Guava Smoothie

Any fruits can be made into a smoothie, and guava is no exception. No matter what kinds of guava you choose, you’ll get a drink packed with antioxidants and full of tropical flavors. However, I’d suggest using yellow guavas, as this fruit with “Y” as the first letter is the sweetest.

Pink guavas will give your smoothie a more appealing appearance and a hint of sourness like strawberries. In contrast, white guavas are sweeter and juicier.

And feel free to make as many fruit combinations as you want. Guavas go well with almost all fruits, such as pineapples, mangoes, passion fruits, and many more.

Nothing is easier than this guava smoothie. Let’s see this video:

Guava Atole

Atole has consistently appeared in Mexican cuisine as an energy beverage. Sometimes, people even make it thicker, so it’s more suitable for breakfast or midday snacks.

While traditional atole is still widely loved by Mexican people, multiple modern versions are created, such as this guava one. In this recipe, instead of honey, I’ll use guava to sweeten the drink. Also, its color helps atole look more appealing.

Which Guava Recipes Are Your Favorite?

For me, using guavas in cooking is much easier than other fruits as their flavor is distinct and hard to be overpowered. Not to mention, guavas aren’t seasonal fruit, which means you can enjoy them for the whole year without having to wait.

So, why don’t you share this article with your family and friends and make some together? If you have other ideas about cooking guavas, please let other readers and me know by noting them down in the comment section below.