Agua Fresca de Mango
- 3 large mangos
- 12 1/3 cups of water
- 1/2 cups of sugar *(dissolve sugar in warm water to form a simple sugar syrup first for best results)
Directions
- Peel mango and slice fruit off of pit. Place in blender. Put 12 1/3 cups of water in large pitcher. Using water from pitcher, cover mango in blender.
- Blend mixture until smooth.
- Pour mixture back into water pitcher, add sugar or simple sugar syrup and stir well.
- Add ice and serve.
Agua Fresca de Limon
- Zest of 4 small limes
- 12 1/3 cups of water
- 3/4 cup of sugar *(dissolve sugar in warm water to form a simple sugar syrup first for best results)
Directions
- Rinse 4 limes and zest 4
- Add the zest and sugar or simple sugar syrup to a pitcher of 12 1/3 cups of water and stir well
- Add ice and serve
Pineapple and Mango Agua
Ingredients
- 1 pound pineapple, peeled and de-cored
- 2 mangos, peeled and de-pitted
- 1⅔ cup white, preferably unrefined sugar
- 1 gallon water
Directions
- Cut pineapple in large chunks and place in blender.
- Cover pineapple with water and blend until smooth.
- Strain mixture through sieve into large pitcher using approximately 5 cups of water to help strain all of the pineapple mixture.
- Cut mango into chunks and put in blender.
- Cover with water and blend until smooth. Again, strain mixture through sieve using approximately 5 cups of water to help strain. If not all of the gallon of water has been used at this point, pour the rest of the water in the pitcher.
- Add in sugar and stir until dissolved.
Horchata de Leche con Piña y Mango
Ingredients
- 7 ounces pineapple, peeled and cored
- 2 mangos, peeled and de-pitted
- 7 ounces of white rice
- 1 gallon of water (~16 cups)
- 1½ cups white sugar
- 1 13 ounce can of evaporated milk
- 2 inch piece of canela bark
- ½ cups crushed pecans
Directions
- Pour hot or boiling water onto rice to clean and soften.
- Wash three times with hot water or until the water is clear.
- Strain rice and blend with broken canela pieces, adding water to facilitate blending.
- When canela is mostly blended in, add more water and raise blender speed.
- Strain into put through cheese cloth, pouring water over cloth.
- Take remnants off of cloth and put back in blender with more water, blending until homogenous.
- Squeeze cheese cloth to remove remainder of liquid.
- Stir in sugar and can of evaporated milk.
- Dice mango and pineapple and put into horchata. Stir. Add pecans and stir.
- Serve cold.
Agua de Pepino y Limon
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber, peeled and cut into chunks
- 4 limes
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ gallon water
Directions
- Put cucumber chunks in blender with enough water to facilitate blending.
- Juice limes and add.
- Stir in sugar.
- Add the remaining water and stir.