Chicha Morada is a refreshing traditional drink from Peru which is still very popular and can easily be made at home if you can buy the essential ingredient – Purple Corn.
Essentially the ingredients are purple corn, apple, pineapple and cinnamon.
Chicha Morada also sold ready to drink in bottles In supermarkets there are packets of powder you can mix with water to make Chicha Morada like the famous Negrita brand but these usually use artificial colours and flavours. If you want to make Chicha Morada the traditional way this is the recipe:
Purple corn
Cinnamon
Pineaple skin
Apple
Sugar
Lemon juice
Boil the purple corn with the pineaple skin or any fruit that you like that is gonna give the chicha a strong flavour for about 15 minutes.Sieve the chicha. Leave it to cool down, when the chicha is cold add sugar or sweetener and lemon juice, you could add apple in little cubes as well.
In fact Chicha Morada is often still available in cinemas where you can have it instead of coca-cola, 7-up, etc.
Some Adverts for Chicha:
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