Ponche Navideño Recipe
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Ponche Navideño Recipe
Description
Ponche Navideño Recipe calls for boiling water infused with aromatic spices such as cinnamon sticks and whole cloves, along with tamarind pods and tejocotes, a seasonal fruit. After initial boiling and softening, the tejocotes are peeled and deseeded before returning to the pot. Various other fruits including guava, apples, pears, sugarcane chunks, prunes, raisins, orange slices, and sweet piloncillo are added and simmered to create a rich, fragrant punch.
The slow simmering blend produces a warm, inviting beverage with a mix of textures from the soft fruit pieces and a deep, spiced sweetness from the piloncillo and spices. Optionally, brandy or tequila can be added to each serving for an adult version.
The punch fits holiday gatherings by delivering comforting warmth and complex fruity and spicy notes. The recipe notes that substitutions or additions like hibiscus flowers for color or extra apples if tejocotes are unavailable can be made for adaptation.
Ingredients
- 4 quarts water
- 2 cinnamon stick
- 8 clove whole
- 5 tamarind pods husk removed, and seeded or boil the entire pod to make removing easier, long
- ½ pound tejocote left whole, or crab apples
- 6 guava peeled and cut into large bite-size chunks, large
- 2 red apples of your choice, peeled, cored, and cut into small bite-size chunks
- 1 pear of your choice, peeled, cored, and cut into small bite-size chunks
- 2 inch sugarcane sticks peeled and cut into small chunks
- 1 cup prunes pitted
- 1/2 cup raisins dark
- 1 orange sliced
- 1 piloncillo chopped or 1 cup dark brown sugar, cone form
- 1 ounce brandy optional, or tequila, per cup
Instructions
- In a large pot, over high heat, boil water, cinnamon sticks, cloves, tamarind, and tejocotes. After it starts to boil, lower the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes until the tejocotes are soft.
- Remove the tejocotes from the heat, peel, remove hard ends, cut in half, and deseed. Return them to the pot.
- Add guavas, apples, pears, sugar cane, prunes, orange slices, and piloncillo.
- Simmer for at least 30 minutes, stirring gently. Discard cinnamon sticks and cloves.
- Ladle into cups, making sure each cup gets some chunks of fruit.
- Add brandy or tequila to each cup (optional).
Notes
- If fresh sugarcane is unavailable, some specialty stores sell Ponche Navideño en Almibar (fruit punch in syrup) containing typical ingredients.
- Tamarind pods may be bought online or replaced with hibiscus flowers to provide color and tartness.
- When tejocotes are not accessible, adding an extra apple is a reasonable substitution.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 20Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 72 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 72kcal | 4% |
| Carbohydrates | 17g | 6% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 1g | 2% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Sodium | 12mg | 1% |
| Potassium | 245mg | 5% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 9g | 18% |
| Vitamin A | 252IU | 5% |
| Vitamin C | 63mg | 70% |
| Calcium | 24mg | 2% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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