Aguapanela
Aguapanela is Colombia's national drink, consumed from the Amazon to the Andes. It is drunk hot in the cold highlands and cold in the tropical coast. Colombian children grow up drinking it for breakfast, and it is the first thing offered to a visitor in any Colombian home.
Colombia's most comforting drink — raw cane sugar (panela) dissolved in hot water with lime juice. The drink of Colombian childhoods, cold mornings and long nights.
Ingredients
Method
Bring water to boil in a saucepan.
Add grated panela and stir until completely dissolved.
Add lime juice. Taste and adjust sweetness.
Serve hot in mugs.
Traditionally served with a piece of fresh white cheese to dunk into the hot drink.
Panela (raw unrefined cane sugar) has a distinctive molasses-like flavour that refined sugar cannot replicate. Find it at Latin American grocery stores.
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