What to Do with Guavas, Lots of Guavas

[Catbert]

My neighbor keeps giving me Mexican guavas.*  5 lbs or so at a time.  I never want to turn down free food, especially if it would otherwise rot on the ground. 

I eat them fresh, seeds and all.  I've seeded, chopped and frozen them for smoothies.  I canned guava butter last year and still have some jars left.  I'll try seeding them and cooking town the flesh to mush to make guava bread (using a banana bread recipe).

Any more ideas?  Anyone live in San Diego and need guavas? 

*Mexican guavas have yellow skin when ripe with yellowish, orangeish flesh approximately the consistency of pear.  The large center is
 loaded with small, hard seeds.

[Rezdent]

Dang.  Wish I was closer to you :)
I had a pomegranite windfall last year and ended up making pomegranite molasses.  This has been an amazing secret ingredients in lots of dishes.
The nice part is how so many fruit reduced to small jars.

Wondering if you can do something similar, maybe reduce to a paste?

[Lis]

All I know is guava rum is delicious, especially mixed with apple juice.

See if it ferments and try making your own fruit wine?

[zephyr911]

OMG the jealousy! I grew up in HI and I can't really get guavas in AL... :(
How many do I have to get to justify the drive? ;)

[wenchsenior]

OMG the jealousy! I grew up in HI and I can't really get guavas in AL... :(
How many do I have to get to justify the drive? ;)

Same here. It's one of my favorite fruits, and I wish I could grow it!

[Catbert]

I've seeded and pureed about 1/2 the guavas (the ripest ones).  That's give me a bit more time to figure out what to do with them.

Still looking for ideas...

[Daisy]

Jealous. I grew up eating guava, or should I say guava derived products. I had my first real unprocessed guava as an adult.

But I grew up eating canned guava shells in syrup. Delicious with some slices of cream cheese on top. You could probably make your own guava shells in syrup from fresh guavas.

Ditto with guava paste that comes in a bar. Good with cream cheese also. Sometimes placed on a cracker or on bread. We used Cuban bread but I guess French bread would do...make a little sandwich with slices of guava paste and cream cheese for dessert.

You can also make guava marmelade. Use to make guava cheesecake. Yum. Or guava cupcakes...of course with a cream cheese frosting. The fancy cupcake places now are making a killing on these.

Guava BBQ sauces are popular now. Goes well with pork or chicken.

Looks like I may have to up my guava game and try to make this from real guavas too. I usually buy the already made marmelade and pastes.

[Kimchi Bleu]

OMG the jealousy! I grew up in HI and I can't really get guavas in AL... :(
How many do I have to get to justify the drive? ;)

Had guava juice for the very first time when I visited Hawaii this summer.  Went on a hunt to find it in the stores near me.  Finally found it and have a few bottles in the pantry.

[MMMaybe]

Guava marinade.

Its also makes a delicious juice and I enjoy it dried as fruit leather.

[votu]

You can use them in face and hair mask.

Can also pickle them in solution of sugar,  salt,  vinegar and chilli. There's also a recipe for guava with salted plum. These go well with beer.

Cut into thin stripes for a salad with carrots, pork, various herbs,  nuts, lemon, chilli and dressing.

[Retired To Win]

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But I grew up eating canned guava shells in syrup. Delicious with some slices of cream cheese on top. You could probably make your own guava shells in syrup from fresh guavas.
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THIS.  Cut them open, take the pulp and seeds out, throw the shells in water and boil for a while.  Great with ANY kind of cheese.  Nowadays, I would hedge on the syrup part; too many useless calories there.

Good luck.