Best Guava Fresca With Mint And Ginger Recipes
10 BEST GUAVA COCKTAILS
These guava cocktails have such an intense, refreshing flavor! From cosmos to mojitos to margaritas, you won't be able to resist guavas after trying these drinks.
Provided by insanelygood
Categories Beverages Recipe Roundup
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Select your favorite recipe.
- Organize all the required ingredients.
- Prep a guava cocktail in 30 minutes or less!
Nutrition Facts :
GUAVA, GRAPEFRUIT, AND ROSEMARY AGUA FRESCA (AGUA FRESCA DE GUAYABA, TORONJA Y ROMERO)
I have always thought that aguas frescas were born out of resourcefulness. If you only have one melon to juice but there are ten people coming over for lunch, how do you make it yield more? By turning it into an agua fresca. It is a wonderful fresh tradition shared by the entire country. It is the perfect drink to have when a fruit juice would be too much and plain water too boring. It has three basic ingredients: water, fruit, and sugar. The method is basically the same for all aguas. We have listed a basic method with four different ratios and flavor profiles, so you get familiar with the process and then make it your own. You can play with different fruit, herb, and spice combinations and by adjusting the sweetness levels to your taste and the ratio of water to fruit. For example, we like ours a bit more watery and I barely add any sugar. Following this one, we included three recipes for aguas that stray from the norm a bit and are each interesting in its own way.
Provided by Enrique Olvera
Categories Guava Rosemary Grapefruit Citrus Spring Summer
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- In a blender, combine all the ingredients, except the sugar, and blend well. Standard blender jars probably won't fit all the ingredients so blend in batches. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a pitcher. Add sugar (or your preferred sweetener) to taste, adjusting for your own preference and based on how sweet the fruit is to begin with. Add enough ice to your liking. As an option, you can garnish with a piece of an ingredient in the agua. For example, a sprig of rosemary, a stick of cinnamon, or slices of lemon. Pour into ice-filled glasses.
CUCUMBER AGUA FRESCA WITH MINT AND GINGER
Light and refreshing with a slight bite from fresh ginger, this cooling cucumber drink is perfect on days when the warmth of the sun bakes everything in its path. A simple syrup of bruised mint and sugar adds sweetness. Agua fresca, a chilled nonalcoholic drink popular in Mexico and Central America, is most often made by blending fruit or soaked grains or by steeping plant blossoms in water. The mix is then strained, sweetened and served chilled. Enjoy this cucumber version as is, or add a splash of gin to turn it into a light aperitif or a delightful afternoon cocktail.
Provided by Yewande Komolafe
Categories non-alcoholic drinks
Time 15m
Yield 4 cups
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a medium bowl, combine the mint leaves, sugar and salt, and crush them all together using a fork or the back of a wooden spoon just until the mint is bruised. Pour in the hot water, and stir until the sugar and salt dissolve. Allow the mixture to steep for 5 minutes while you prepare the cucumbers.
- Combine the cucumbers and ginger in a blender. Zest the lime right over the blender, then halve it and squeeze in its juice. Pour in 1 cup room-temperature water and purée on high until smooth. Pour the purée through a fine-mesh strainer, pressing lightly on the solids with a spatula to extract the liquid. Discard the solids and pour the agua fresca into a medium pitcher.
- Pour the mint syrup through the same strainer into a container, pressing on the leaves to extract the liquid. Add ¼ cup strained syrup to the agua fresca. Taste and add more syrup or more lime juice to taste. Cover any leftover syrup and refrigerate for another use.
- Fill glasses with ice, pour in the agua fresca, garnish with mint and serve immediately.
FRUIT-AND-HERB SORBETS
A cold treat this time of year might seem like a curveball, but there are certain fall flavors that are made for sorbet, like concord grapes, rosemary, and cranberries to name a few. Using 100 percent juice rather than cooking fruit is a welcome shortcut, and you don't have to wait for it to cool, so you can get it churning ASAP. Our fruit-plus-herb formula is ripe for riffing. Here, grape and rosemary announce autumn, guava and basil tease the tropics, and cranberry nods to the harvest.
Provided by Greg Lofts
Categories Dessert & Treats Recipes
Time 4h40m
Yield Makes 1 quart
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a saucepan, combine sugar, lemon zest, salt, 1 cup fruit juice of choice, and herb of choice. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat, cover, and let steep 5 minutes. Strain into a heatproof container, discarding zest and herbs, and stir in lemon juice and remaining 2 cups fruit juice.
- Process in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. When it has the texture of soft-serve, transfer sorbet to a chilled loaf pan or other freezer-safe container. Cover and freeze until firm, at least 4 hours and up to 1 week.
Are you curently on diet or you just want to control your food's nutritions, ingredients? We will help you find recipes by cooking method, nutrition, ingredients...
Check it out »
You'll also love
