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Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry–type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings. [1]Traditional fillings include cream cheese quesitos, guava (pastelito de guayaba) and cheese, pineapple, and coconut.
Although quesitos may not have originated in Puerto Rico, they do add interesting flavors that are hard to find outside the island. The batter can contain eggs and sour cream similar to cheesecake. Red bean paste , piña colada , almond paste , dulce de leche , dulce de lechosa (spiced papaya jam), bacon, and other nuts and fruits.
Tequeño is a fried spear of wheat dough stuffed with semi-hard queso blanco (fresh cheese), and is a popular meal or snack in Venezuela. [1] To prepare it, the dough is wrapped around a cheesestick, formed into a breadstick and then fried or sometimes oven-baked.
Guava jelly (Spanish: bocadillo (de guayaba), "guava snack"), guava jelly, or guava paste, is a Hispanic American confection made with guava pulp and panela, which is consumed abundantly throughout Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela. Similar confection can be produced from other fruits like banana and coconut.
Very similar to goiabada is the closely related Colombian bocadillo, also made from guava but with more sugar.. It is known as guava paste or guava cheese throughout the English-speaking Americas, especially the Caribbean, and dulce de guayaba, barra de guayaba, pasta de guayaba, bocadillo or guayabate in Spanish-speaking Americas.
Habichuelas con dulce purchased at supermarket. Habichuelas con dulce is a sweet bean liquid dessert from the Dominican Republic that is especially popular around the Easter holiday. [1] The dessert is part of the cuisine of the Dominican Republic and is traditionally garnished with milk cookies or with casabe, "a flatbread made of yuca flour." [2]
Honey bee on a Psidium guajava flower. Flower buds and leaf buds are also visible. Common guava seedling, 14 months. Psidium guajava, the common guava, [2] yellow guava, [2] lemon guava, [2] or apple guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Caribbean, Central America and South America. [2]
Guava is a snack in Cuba as pastelitos de guayaba; and in Taiwan, sold on many street corners and night markets during hot weather, accompanied by packets of dried plum powder mixed with sugar and salt for dipping. In east Asia, guava is commonly eaten with sweet and sour dried plum powder mixtures.