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Suco de maracujá
Passion fruit juice
Suco de maracujá: tart passion-fruit juice blended with cold water and sugar
Brazilian lunch counters, the pratos feitos joints known as PFs, list suco de maracujá on every chalkboard, and many people order it for its famously calming effect after a long morning. Yellow passion fruit is blended briefly with cold water, strained and sweetened, which gives a vivid, perfumed, very tart drink that goes with rice, beans and a grilled steak just as well as with a beach snack. Use wrinkled, heavy fruit for the most juice, or frozen unsweetened pulp from Latin shops. Over-blending is the slip people make: crushed seeds turn the juice gritty and bitter. Chef's tip: blend the pulp with only a little of the water first, in a couple of short pulses, strain, then add the rest of the water and the sugar.
- Total time
- 10 min
- Difficulty
- easy
- Serves
- 4
Ingredients
- 4 ripe passion fruitor 200 g unsweetened frozen pulp
- 3 ¾ cups cold water
- 4 tbsp sugarto taste
- 8 ice cubes
- 4 sprigs mint leaves (optional)to garnish
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Method
0/5 doneStep 1: Halve 4 ripe passion fruit and scoop the pulp into a blender with a quarter of the 1 cup cold water.
Step 2: Pulse 3–4 times, just until the juice separates from the seeds and the seeds look clean but are still whole.
Step 3: Strain into a jug, pressing on the seeds with a spoon. Discard the seeds.
Step 4: Stir in the rest of the 2 ¾ cups cold water and 4 tbsp sugar until dissolved, and taste; it should be tart but rounded.
Step 5: Pour over 8 ice cubes in glasses and add 4 sprigs mint leaves if you like. Drink the same day.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 70 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 17 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fibre
- 1 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does suco de maracujá take?
- About 10 minutes in total.
- How many people does it serve?
- 4 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegan?
- Yes. It has no meat, fish, dairy or eggs.
- Is it gluten free?
- Yes, as written. Check the labels on stock, sauces and spice mixes, which sometimes contain gluten.
- What can I use instead of sugar?
- Caster sugar, same amount.
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