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Papaya water and recipe

Papaya water and rice cold shrimp

These days in Yunnan, has been hot and don't want to, in Yunnan, the most popular summer drinks than papaya water and rice cold shrimp, in fact, these two drinks are not only Yunnan people eat, in the whole southwest have the habit of eating this.

Papaya water and rice cold shrimp, also known as "ice powder" and "cold shrimp", we teach you how to do this thing at home on the day.

One, papaya water

The papaya water introduced here is not the kind of powder rushed out of the kind, but with the hand "rub" out of the kind, only this kind of hand rubbed out of the fear of being considered a real papaya water.

Ingredients:

Papaya seeds 50g

Skilled lime 30g

Water 11500ml

Water 2 (cold water) 1500ml

Gauze/cloth 1 piece

Large containers 2

Traditional methods of papaya water handmade practice

1, making lime water. .. Slaked lime into 1500ml of water. Stir well and let it stand for 1 to 2 hours. Spare.

2, prepare rubbing papaya seeds. Wrap the papaya seeds in gauze/cloth. Gauze can be folded two layers, otherwise it is easy to rub the seeds run out, not good to get. Wrap the seeds when wrapped loosely, or not good rubbing.

3, rub papaya seeds, gauze tied mouth, to avoid papaya seeds run out. Then the focus came! The package of this package thrown into the 1500ml of cold boiled water, like washing clothes, two hands hold, start rubbing! Rub hard! Rub until the packet in your hand starts foaming at the mouth, and rub until the water starts to become a little thick, then it's right. When you get to the papaya seeds, it's not so foamy and sticky anymore. And the water becomes a little sticky. Let it sit for 15 minutes, take about 300ml of the reserved lime water (note the top layer of clarified lime water) that you just let sit, and then pour the lime water into the water you just washed the papaya seeds in while stirring. Pour slowly, checking the liquid with your fingers every now and then. When you feel the mixture sticking to your fingers (like milk hanging from a glass), stop pouring the limewater. Then keep stirring for 10 seconds or so to make the mixture more homogeneous.

4, let stand for about 30 minutes, papaya water is ready.

5, mix the drink. Take a container, mix half of the brown sugar water (rose sugar is the best), add half of the papaya water, a good papaya water has become, of course, you can also join the rice cold shrimp together, the next step will introduce you to the practice of rice cold shrimp.

Tips

1, the remaining lime water can be reused. Each time you use it to replenish some water, put it in a dry, cool and light-avoiding place can be stored for a long time.

2, to make the ice powder older you can add more lime water, but never add more! Otherwise you can't eat it!

3, there is no measuring cup can be used instead of mineral water bottles.

4, papaya seeds can be bought at a certain treasure, everyone will have a search. Some also send lime, more convenient.

Two, rice cold shrimp

Rice cold shrimp? Is it shrimp? The first time you hear this name is curious. The answer is certainly not, it is similar to papaya water like Yunnan flavor snacks. Because of the shape of its tail and shrimp resembles, so it is named. Use it with sugar water, put some rose sugar. It is cold in the mouth and the finished product