Description
About this product
El Sabor Maiz Morado is purple corn from Peru. Purple corn is the base for chicha morada, a Peruvian drink.
Usage and preparation
This is how you make chicha morada. You need:
- 1 kg purple corn
- 1 ripe pineapple
- 3 quinces, in pieces
- 2 chopped apples (optional)
- 3 cinnamon sticks and cloves
- 4 litres of water, lemon juice and sugar to taste
- Wash the purple corn thoroughly.
- Boil the corn in a large amount of water together with the pineapple peel, the quince, the cloves and the cinnamon.
- Boil until the corn kernels burst.
- Remove from the heat, let cool and strain the liquid.
- Serve with diced apple if you like.
Once the drink is ready, the colour becomes more intense.
Ingredients
Nutritional values
| Nutritional value | per 100 g |
| Energy | 1494 kJ |
| Fat | 3.4 g |
| of which saturates | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 76.2 g |
| of which sugars | 0 g |
| Fibre | 1.8 g |
| Protein | 7.3 g |
| Salt | 0 g |
