Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones
There are Mexican sweetmeat recipes for all seasons - gooey cinnamon-scented chocolate cakes with hot chocolate sauce to warm you up in the winter and chilled strawberry soup to cool you down in the springtime. If you are looking for something nothing else but refreshing for the summer, what about production some Mexican raspadas?
Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones
Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones
Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones
Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones
A snow cone, or raspada in Mexican, is a paper cone filled with crushed ice and topped with a flavored syrup. Raspadas, which are also known as piraguas, minutas or granizados, are beloved in Texas, California and throughout the southwestern United States, as well as in Mexico.
They are well loved all over South America and different countries have their own ways of serving them. Venezuelan raspadas, for example, are topped with condensed milk. Snow cones are also enjoyed all over Asia. They are a low-cost summertime treat and they are whether served in a cup or on a stick.
Tasty Snow Cone Flavors
Classic Mexican raspada flavors consist of tamarind, guava, pistachio, cucumber, watermelon, chamoy, picocito and leche. Chamoy is fruit with chili sauce, picocito is chili and lemon and leche is a composition of milk and cinnamon.
If you belief that chili was the last thing that could cool you down on a hot day, you might like to try a chamoy raspada! The chili makes you sweat and this does nothing else but cool you down. Of course, not all raspada syrup recipes consist of chili and some are simply fruit-based.
Recipe for Mexican Raspadas
This formula serves six citizen and the composition of strawberry and lemon is nothing else but refreshing. You can use an ice crusher or ice shaving machine to make the crushed or shaved ice. Alternatively, just drop the ice cubes into a food processor or blender. Not all blenders are capable of crushing ice so check the manufacturer's instructions if you are not sure or just use a rolling pin to crush the ice yourself.
You can vary the ingredients in this Mexican snow cones formula if you like, swapping the strawberries for raspberries, the lemon juice for lime juice or using someone else type of fruit. You can also get readymade flavored syrups, which are handy for production snow cones.
What you will need:
- 10 cups ice cubes
- 4 cups hulled strawberries
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- Fresh mint, to garnish
Puree the strawberries in a food processor or blender, and then transfer the puree to a pan, adding the sugar. Stir it occasionally over a moderate heat until the composition boils, then stir in the lemon juice and let it cool.
Cover and chill the strawberry composition for a few hours, then shave or crush the ice and spoon it into chilled bowls or paper cones. Pour the strawberry syrup over the top and garnish with the fresh mint. Serve these raspadas immediately.
Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones