" Chicha morada" is a soft drink which takes on the color of one of its main ingredients: purple maize!. Chicha morada is prepared from a base of boiled purple maize to which are added chunks of pineapple, cinnamon, sugar, and some of lemon finally, maybe a little of ice as it cools. It's a soft drink very popular in Peru.
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Purple maize! How cool! but natural is yellow one no?
At the first moment I thought it was sangria or something like that... how interesting! It must have an amazing taste!
Amazing! I haven't seen it on any menus here in Mazatlan, but I will look for it. Clear photos!
Fascinating. It sounds delish!! And normally, I associate the dark purple color with grapes. Very interesting.
I haven't heard of purple maize either. Is it a fermented drink?
it's a natural purple and the drink isn't fermented ^^
chicha morada ke ricooooo heladita
That looks really, really good !
I didn't know there was purple maize either...but that drink does look refreshing!
I love your conutry and I hope to taste it very soon :-)
I'm drinking a glass of Chicha morada right now.
and in reply to dsole
the purple maize is just as natural as yellow maize just not so prevelant.
Man has traded nutrition and pigment for sugar and yield for 10,000 years.
Corn was hybridized to yellow to increase sugar content. The corn you hang on the door is lot closer to what nature offers us. Less tasty but more nutritious.
Pick a crop and you will find its ancient dark pigmented origins.
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