One in every thing I love about visiting Mexico, and various tropical countries, is how mighty they trip fruit served recent. And it’s laborious to pass by one in all the stands serving fruits juices and drinks when there are piles of gorgeous, juicy melons, berries, and citrus, ready to be juiced and served over ice.
In France, we salvage marvelously candy Cavaillon melons, which I in most cases used to be ready to search out in California as correctly. Even when in France, it’s intellectual mighty the default melon and after they’re ample, sellers will provide these orange-fleshed melons for a much bigger price within the occasion you buy two. So that’s me you’ll secure, invariably lugging dwelling two melons from the market within the summer. In the states, there are muskmelons and cantaloupes at grocery stores which would possibly possibly possibly possibly be in most cases rather upright. However within the occasion you dispute over with a greenmarket, normally you’ll secure actually gargantuan (and in most cases, rather odd) sorts of melons offered by folks who develop them themselves.
The excellent approach to pick a upright melon is to sniff it – if it smells love a candy, juicy melon, it needs to be ripe and ready whenever you slice it open. Even when in Paris it’s normally interdit to touch the fruit, I both are attempting to lean in shut adequate to scent it (which admittedly, in most cases attracts a pair of stares), or better but, I shop from folks who know that I appreciate a gargantuan, ripe melon, and are jubilant to let me resolve my be pleased.
It’s been crazy-hot in Paris this weekend, with our first canicule (warmth wave) of the summer, so I purchased up this morning at 4am to beat the warmth, spoil up a melon, and made a pitcher of agua fresca to sit down support out with at the brand new time. Then I’m off to the market, to salvage one other melon—or two.
That it is probably going you’ll say any roughly melon that’s on hand to you throughout the season. Agua fresca is frequently rather skinny – the name potential “recent water.”
I discover it irresistible a runt exciting, so prime it with a dusting of crimson pepper powder. For certain, you would possibly possibly possibly presumably flip this proper into a cocktail with a shot (or two) of tequila. However you abet it, make certain it’s correctly-chilled and served over hundreds of ice.
- 1 little melon (2-kilos, 900g), peeled and seeded
- 2 yellow or white nectarines, pitted and sliced
- 2 cups (0.5L) water
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar, ideally an unrefined sugar (search Characterize)
- juice of half a lime
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Puree all of the elements collectively in a blender unless very soft.
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Tear the aggregate by a mesh strainer, pressing it by with a flexible spatula. Chill the agua fresca mixture thoroughly.
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Wait on correctly-chilled over ice. Mud with crimson pepper powder, if desired.
Characterize: I conventional cassonade blonde, which is a gentle-colored pure cane sugar. Identical sugars encompass demerara and turbinado.
Related Recipes and Hyperlinks
The Melon Washer
Frozen Melon Margaritas
Horchata
Strawberry Watermelon Agua Fresca (Merely Recipes)
Atole
Mexican Sizzling Chocolate
Swish Mango Agua Fresca (On a regular foundation Southwest)
Pineapple-Ginger Agua Fresca (A Opinion for Food)
Mexican Eating locations in Paris
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