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Pera Achcharu / Spiced Guava

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi February 12, 2013
Pera Achcharu Street Food Sri Lanka


Spiced Guava is a popular street food in Sri Lanka. We commonly call it as ‘Pera Achcharu’.Not only guava, we like to eat pineapple, mango, ambaralla  or even ‘Veralu’ (Sri Lankan olive) with some spices added. I remember, during the school days we used to buy these from street vendors near the school. They dice fruits and add chili, salt and sugar mixture into diced fruits. We could buy a bag of ‘Achcharu’ for few rupees.

Pera Achcharu Street Food Sri Lanka
Still, I can’t resist the taste. Recently I tried some guava with added chili, sugar and salt mixture. This simple recipe reminds me my good old days and thought of sharing with you all.

Here is the simple Pera Achcharu (Spiced Guava) Recipe.

Pera Achcharu Street Food Sri Lanka
Ingredients
1 Guava
1 tspn chili powder
1 tspn sugar
1/4 tspn salt or to taste
Method
Wash guava. Cut it into small cubes.
In a bowl, mix chili powder sugar and salt together. Add few drops of water into it and make like a paste/sauce. Add diced guava into this and mix well.
Pera Achcharu is ready to eat.

Pera Achcharu Street Food Sri Lanka

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Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She is a Sri Lankan living in Singapore and shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes, you will also find travel, health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She is the founder of Sihela Consultants. (www.sihelaconsultants.com) She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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28 comments

Veena Theagarajan February 12, 2013 - 2:27 am

sounds interesting.. I normally do this with mango of cucumber… but with Guava it is new

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Helen Prabha February 12, 2013 - 2:27 am

Wow……spicy fruity…..yummy..:-)

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Meredith @ The Laundry Can Wait February 12, 2013 - 2:50 am

I don’t think I’ve ever had guava! If it weren’t for your posts, I probably wouldn’t know about a lot of different recipes. 🙂

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Divya Shivaraman February 12, 2013 - 2:54 am

i love this…thats gona be spicy,sweet and tangy

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Maayeka February 12, 2013 - 5:06 am

wow!!this looks so tempting!!

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Ramya Krishnamurthy February 12, 2013 - 6:11 am

super and mouthwatering here:)

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DivyaGCP February 12, 2013 - 6:12 am

We have guava tree at home back in India.. But have never tasted it this way..
Am sure it must taste awesome..

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Latha Madhusudhan February 12, 2013 - 6:18 am

This is such a wonderful combi.

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Shruti Dhingra Wahi February 12, 2013 - 6:28 am

You reminded me of my childhood days ….loved to have this anytime !!!
shrutirasoi

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kausers kitchen February 12, 2013 - 7:47 am

I Luv this, reminds me of my school days. Its so irresistible.

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Anshu Bhatnagar February 12, 2013 - 8:41 am

So lovely…my favorite way of eating guavas..
Beautiful clicks..

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Poornima Arun February 12, 2013 - 9:11 am

i usually eat guavas like this.. but i dont add sugar.. will try adding sugar next time..

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Shama Nagarajan February 12, 2013 - 9:11 am

lovely recipe and mouth watering.
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Deeksha February 12, 2013 - 3:34 am

sounds good.

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Sanoli Ghosh February 12, 2013 - 1:14 pm

Reminding me my childhood days Amy. We had it oftenly….I know it is very luscious dear.

today’s recipe:

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Sebeena Loyd February 12, 2013 - 4:51 pm

yummy

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PT February 12, 2013 - 6:55 pm

we use rock salt instead of chili powder.. great snack..

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Jay February 12, 2013 - 11:56 am

wow..love your preparation …sooper yummm
Tasty Appetite

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Sangeetha Priya February 13, 2013 - 3:53 am

finger licking spiced guava, gr8 presentation too 🙂

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Shirley Tay February 13, 2013 - 5:15 am

Love those guava, my dear! Here’s wishing a Happy V-Day & don’t forget to enter my latest Valentine’s Day Giveaway: Win Hawaa Natural Soy Lotion Candles By Flen!! I’m giving out 10 candles that melt into a nice scented moisturizer!!

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NURUNNAHAR amily February 13, 2013 - 6:56 am

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Joyti February 13, 2013 - 7:42 am

My family does this too! With raw mangoes and papayas and because we are in the U.S. apples sometimes. Lovely tangy snack 🙂

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Leyla Brooke February 13, 2013 - 9:40 am

That looks great. Thanks for stopping by my blog am following back

Thisdayilove

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Maha Gadde February 13, 2013 - 12:38 pm

perfect and delicious..

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Deepti February 13, 2013 - 7:18 pm

Love this combination! lovely clicks…

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Amelia February 14, 2013 - 2:53 pm

Hi Amy, this is really tempting and irresistible. So refreshing!

Best regards.

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Food Jaunts February 18, 2013 - 5:29 pm

Oh I love this idea. I love fruit but sometimes you get tired of just eating straight fruit. The chili with salt and sugar sounds like a great combo.

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NURUNNAHAR amily May 24, 2013 - 4:43 pm

l LOVE IT.Thanks for your post.I will review it again.Recipes

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