Mote con huesillo
Mote con huesillo
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Mote con huesillo

Cooked wheat and sweet dried peaches in cinnamon syrup. Drink it, then eat it with a spoon.

60 minTime
6 gProtein each
mildSpice
12hPlan ahead. Soak for 12 hours first; the 60 minutes come after.
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Grandma's wayDried peaches, mote and cinnamon syrup.
The original
364kcalsame
6 gproteinsame
8 gfibresame
60minutessame

Mote con huesillo.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

6 servings
Dried peaches12 dried peaches (huesillos)
Whole wheat grains (wheat berries)1 cup husked wheat (mote)
Jaggery150 g chancaca or jaggery
Sugar¼ cup
Cinnamon2 sticks
Orangepeel of 1
Water2 litres

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Soak the peaches overnight in 1.5 litres of water.
  2. 2Cook the wheat in plenty of water until tender, 40 to 60 minutes. Drain and rinse.
  3. 3Simmer the peaches in their soaking water with jaggery, sugar, cinnamon and peel for 40 minutes.
  4. 4Chill. Serve in tall glasses with mote at the bottom, two peaches and plenty of syrup.
Serve it like this

Serve in tall glasses, mote at the bottom, two peaches on top and syrup to the brim, with a long spoon.

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What goes with Mote con huesillo: a bread or rice, a side, something to drink and something sweet.

With a main Humitas75 min
A little snack Completo20 min
A little snack Sopaipillas chilenas45 min
A little snack Empanadas argentinas100 min
Something sweet Puran poli90 min
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