Chilean recipe
How to make Mote con huesillo
Central Chile
Chile's summer drink, sold from street carts: a cold, sweet nectar made by cooking dried peaches with sugar and cinnamon, served with the peaches and a spoonful of cooked husked wheat, the mote, at the bottom of the glass.
Ingredients
- 12 dried peaches (or dried apricots)
- 200 g sugar
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 litres water
- 200 g husked wheat (or pearl barley)
Method
- The night before, wash the dried peaches and soak them in the water.
- Put the peaches and their water in a pan with the sugar and cinnamon and simmer for about 30 minutes, until the peaches are soft and the liquid is a light syrup. Let it cool, then chill it.
- Cook the wheat in plenty of water until tender, about 30 to 40 minutes. Drain and cool it.
- Put 2 or 3 tablespoons of wheat in each tall glass, add two peaches and fill with the cold syrup. Serve with a spoon.
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It is drunk and eaten at the same time, so it comes with a spoon.
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