La miel or honey is one of my favorite ingredients from La Madre Tierra. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t pour honey over something like a smoothie, a slice of toast or suck it straight from a stick.
These recipes for natural raspados (also known as minutas, piraguas, snow cones or shaved ice) from the National Honey Board along with Sno-Con Amor founder and raspado expert Lauda Flores, are made with honey and had me drooling so much I just had to share. I love the very-Latino flavors of tamarind, hibiscus, mojito and a traditional strawberry these are made of. But the best part is that honey is a pure and natural ingredient, made by honey bees, with the help of Mother Nature.
Use nature’s gift to make these flavorful and refreshing honey raspados and impress this summer!
*All recipes below make four servings. If you don’t have an ice shaving machine, you can obtain crushed ice by blending ice cubes in a regular blender or by placing the ice cubes in a plastic bag and crushing them with the help of a rolling pin or any other heavy kitchen tool.
Honey Tamarind Raspado
Ingredients:
6 tbsp of honey
8 tamarind pods
2 cups of water
4 servings of shaved ice
Preparation:
Rinse and shell tamarind pods. Extract pulp and place in a pot with water. Bring to a boil and stir in 2 tablespoons of honey. Once combined thoroughly, remove from heat and let stand until cool. Refrigerate overnight. Pour over shaved ice and drizzle the remaining honey to top it off.
For more tasty honey raspado recipes visit www.mielpura.org.
Que buen idea! It has been so long since I’ve had a raspado estilo Mexicano. I grew up on these flavors but have not introduced them to my little one’s yet. I think I’ll introduce raspados to them the way I was – by shaving the ice ourselves with an ice shaver. Can’t remember what it’s called in Spanish. That’ll be interesting, lol. Thank you!
Would it be ok to share your recipe on my blog?
It´s so hard to find raspados made with natural flavors like the ones we had back home growing up!
I remember the minuta de tamarind in El Salvador had chunks of tamarindo…yum…
Of course you may use these recipes on your blog. The credit goes to http://www.mielpura.org for providing them and you can link back to us
I don’t buy any yukis (raspados) to my boys because I know they are full of MSGs and there is nothing NATURAL about them.
Thanks for sharing this recipe!
I know! I have a hard time buying them because all I see is the strong coloring and think about all the sugar. I do allow her treats every once in a while, but much prefer to make them or find them natural. Hope you all enjoy!!