Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones

There are Mexican dessert recipes for all seasons - gooey cinnamon-scented chocolate cakes with hot chocolate sauce to warm you up in the winter and chilled strawberry soup to cool you down in the springtime. If you are finding for something for real refreshing for the summer, what about development some Mexican raspadas?

Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones

A snow cone, or raspada in Mexican, is a paper cone filled with crushed ice and topped with a flavored syrup. Raspadas, which are also known as piraguas, minutas or granizados, are popular in Texas, California and throughout the southwestern United States, as well as in Mexico.

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Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones

They are well loved all over South America and distinct countries have their own ways of serving them. Venezuelan raspadas, for example, are topped with condensed milk. Snow cones are also enjoyed all over Asia. They are a low-cost summertime treat and they are whether served in a cup or on a stick.

Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones

Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones

Tasty Snow Cone Flavors

Classic Mexican raspada flavors contain tamarind, guava, pistachio, cucumber, watermelon, chamoy, picocito and leche. Chamoy is fruit with chili sauce, picocito is chili and lemon and leche is a compound of milk and cinnamon.

If you idea that chili was the last thing that could cool you down on a hot day, you might like to try a chamoy raspada! The chili makes you sweat and this does for real cool you down. Of course, not all raspada syrup recipes contain chili and some are naturally fruit-based.

Recipe for Mexican Raspadas

This method serves six people and the compound of strawberry and lemon is for real refreshing. You can use an ice crusher or ice shaving machine to make the crushed or shaved ice. Alternatively, just drop the ice cubes into a food processor or blender. Not all blenders are capable of crushing ice so check the manufacturer's instructions if you are not sure or just use a rolling pin to crush the ice yourself.

You can vary the ingredients in this Mexican snow cones method if you like, swapping the strawberries for raspberries, the lemon juice for lime juice or using another type of fruit. You can also get readymade flavored syrups, which are handy for development snow cones.

What you will need:

• 10 cups ice cubes
• 4 cups hulled strawberries
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• Fresh mint, to garnish

How to make them:

Puree the strawberries in a food processor or blender, and then replacement the puree to a pan, adding the sugar. Stir it occasionally over a moderate heat until the compound boils, then stir in the lemon juice and let it cool.

Cover and chill the strawberry compound for a few hours, then shave or crush the ice and spoon it into chilled bowls or paper cones. Pour the strawberry syrup over the top and ornament with the fresh mint. Serve these raspadas immediately.

Raspadas - Refreshing Mexican Snow Cones

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