*You can make a simple chicha morada for this cocktail by boiling 1 lb purple corn in 6 cups water, with a pineapple peel, and apple cut in thick chunks, 2 cinnamon sticks, 4 cloves, and 4 allspice berries. Cook for 45 minutes and then strain, discarding the solids. Continue boiling for an extra 15 minutes to concentrate the flavors.
Chicha Sour
Author: Roberto Cuadra
Recipe type: Drinks
Prep time:
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
- 2 oz chicha morada, unsweetened
- 1 oz lime juice
- 1 oz simple syrup
- 3 oz Pisco
- 5 ice cubes
Instructions
- Put the chicha morada, lime juice, simple syrup, Pisco, and ice cubes in a cocktail shaker.
- Shake and strain into a nice glass.
- Serve immediately.
Peru Delights
As a pisco sour aficionado I have experimented with chicha sours, maracuya sours and even camu-camu sours. They’re OK, but after all my experiments I concluded that even without accounting for all the extra work, nothing beats the classic pisco sour!
We had chicha morada on a recent trip to Peru. If I can find the blue corn I will try to make this (we brought some pisco home).