Agua de Piña con Nopal (Pineapple and Cactus Drink)

Name: Agua de Piña con Nopal (Pineapple and Cactus Drink)
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes 4-6 Drinks
Ingredients: 1 ⁄ 2 cup sugar; 1 small nopal (cactus paddle; available at melissas.com ) cleaned of spikes and roughly chopped; 1 ⁄ 2 ripe pineapple, peeled, cored, and roughly chopped; 1 ⁄ 2 large Granny Smith apple unpeeled, cored, and roughly chopped

Serves
makes 4-6 Drinks

TODD COLEMAN

The recipe for this thirst-quencher comes from Hugo Ortega's Street Food of Mexico (Bright Sky Press, 2012).

Ingredients

¹⁄₂ cup sugar
1 small nopal (cactus paddle; available at melissas.com) cleaned of spikes and roughly chopped
¹⁄₂ ripe pineapple, peeled, cored, and roughly chopped
¹⁄₂ large Granny Smith apple unpeeled, cored, and roughly chopped

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Instructions

Step 1

Combine sugar, nopal, pineapple, and apple in a blender with 3 1⁄4 cups water, and purée until smooth, at least 2 minutes. Pour through a fine strainer into a pitcher, and chill in the refrigerator. Pour over ice in glasses to serve.