Jocotes are the Guatemalan version of plums. Jocotes are also known as Spanish Plum or Red Mombin or Hog Plum. Most people love the taste of jocotes, especially jocotes of corona. Jocotes can also be found as in jocotes in miel or cooked in a molasses syrup. Make sure you try jocotes next time you … Read more
We are so lucky in Guatemala that we can have fresh fruit every day of the year. Often times the fruit has been harvested the day before. I have mentioned before that La Antigua Guatemala is strategically located between exuberant low coastal lands and the highlands, each within a couple of hours from Antigua Guatemala, … Read more
Jocotes (/hoe-ko-tes/) or red mombin are often eaten raw, but you can find them as often in tasty preserves. Jocotes en miel or red mombin in syrup (literal translation of miel would be honey, but in this instance it means syrup or almíbar in Spanish) are prepared as dessert to take to the cemetery on … Read more
There are some Guatemalan fruits that are impossible to translate into English; jocotes is one of them. Jocotes is the little round fruit that looks like cherry tomatoes in the image above. Can anybody help translating what jocotes are and what could be a close equivalent? The Jocote Translation Side Note Update: Thanks to Cindee … Read more