Ingredients
4 teaspoons panela
1 cup water
Half a lime
Directions
Dissolve panela in water, add lime juice. Can be served hot or over ice.
Lime + Mint Agua Panela
Ingredients
1 tablespoon organic panela
8 ounces filtered water
1 lime
1 spring organic mint
Directions
Muddle half a lime with mint and panela in a glass, gradually adding water until panela is dissolved.
Pour over ice, garnish with mint and enjoy this refreshing twist on Agua Panela. 🍃
Chocolate Santafereño
This style of hot chocolate is popular in Colombia's capital, Bogotá. It's perfect for chilly mornings when you're 8,660 feet closer to the stars, as the locals like to say. Chocolate Santafereño is traditionally made with Luker Chocolate, panela and served with queso blanco. Like panela, Luker is a staple in most Colombian pantries, they've been making high quality chocolate since 1906.
Ingredients
4 cups water
8 tablespoons organic panela
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 cubes chocolate
Directions
In a saucepan, heat water over medium-low heat to just before it simmers, add chocolate and reduce heat to low. Once chocolate is melted, add panela and cinnamon. Whisk vigorously (with a molinillo if you have one) and serve with queso blanco.
Red Sangria with Apples and Nectarines
Ingredients
½ cup (or more😉) Triple Sec
2 tablespoons organic panela
1 bottle table red wine
2 nectarines
1 macintosh apple
1 lemon
1 bottle sparkling water
A Sangria recipe is less recipe, more throw things together, let them hang out and drink up. This almost-fall time of year has us feeling Macintosh Apples, Nectarines and Malbec.
Directions
In a large pitcher, mix Triple Sec and panela until panela is mostly dissolved. Add one bottle of red wine to the mixture in the pitcher. Rinse and slice the fruit, add slices to the pitcher. Stir and let chill for at least 20 minutes ⛄️.
Pour over ice and top with a splash of sparking water 💫.
Old Fashioned
Ingredients
1 teaspoon panela
4 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 oz Bourbon or Rye Whiskey
Splash of club soda
1 Ice Cube
Orange peel
Directions
Muddle panela with bitters until the panela dissolves. Add bourbon or whiskey and splash of soda. Stir, add ice and garnish with an orange peel. Cheers!
Chai Wallahs' Chai
Ingredients
1 three-inch piece of ginger root
6 cardamom pods
4 black peppercorns
3 pieces of cinnamon bark
4 cloves
2 cups water
4 tablespoons loose black tea
4 tablespoons organic panela
4 cups whole milk
Directions
Grate ginger and remove seeds from cardamom pods. Crush with black peppercorns using a mortar and pestle. Break cinnamon into one-inch pieces.
In a large pot, bring water, cinnamon, cloves, crushed ginger, cardamom and black pepper to a boil. After 5 minutes, add tea leaves. Boil for 5 more minutes, then add milk and panela and reduce heat to low. Simmer for at least 10 minutes, remove from heat and strain into a teapot through sieve. Serve hot 🔥.
Thanks Chai Wallahs of India for the recipe 😘!
