Chilean · Drink
Mote con Huesillo
- Easy
- 25 min
- roughly 1 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
Leads with warm spice humming through the middle, a warm current of chile.
Ingredients
- 12 dried peaches (huesillos)
- 1.5 litres water for soaking
- 180 g chancaca or unrefined cane sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 strip of orange peel
- 200 g husked wheat (mote)
- 1 litre water for the wheat
The skills inside
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Allergen screen
Found: gluten
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Method
- Soak the dried peaches overnight in the 1.5 litres of water and keep that water; it is the body of the syrup.
- Simmer them in their soaking water with the chancaca, cinnamon and orange peel at a bare bubble until they are plump and yielding and the liquid has darkened to the colour of weak tea, about 40 minutes. 40 min
- Cook the wheat in a separate pot of fresh water until each grain has swollen and is chewy but not chalky at the centre, then drain and rinse under cold water until it runs clear.
- Chill both separately, then spoon wheat into the base of each glass and pour the cold syrup and two peaches over the top.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
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- Fully submerged with room to swell: the level is well above everything at the start and still above it at the end.
- Given the full time, and judged by what is in the bowl rather than by the hours on the clock.
- Tested at the CENTRE of the largest piece, cut or pressed. Anything with a hard dry core will still have one after cooking, because the outside softens first and stops the water getting further in.
- The soaking water was dealt with on purpose: kept because it holds flavour, or thrown away because it holds what should not be eaten, but never simply left undecided.
- Drained before it is used, so the dish does not silently gain all the water that came with it.
Where it goes wrong Too little water, or too little time. The pieces swell until they are packed tight against each other and the ones in the middle never fully take up water; they will not soften later in the dish either, so the finished plate has hard pieces scattered through it.
At the Table
- The Pour
- It is the pour
- Also Right
- Serve alongside something salty and fried
- From the Taps
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- Zero-Proof
- Already zero-proof unless you made it otherwise
This is the glass, not the plate: judge it on temperature, dilution, and balance, and let the food do the answering.
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