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Pineapple Licuado

Ingredients

makes 8 cups

2 cups pineapple juice (preferably unsweetened, from the refrigerator section of the market)
1/2 fresh pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into large chunks, plus more chunks for garnish
5 cups cold water (preferably spring water)
5 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
  1. In the jar of a blender, add all the ingredients and pulse briefly until the pineapple chunks are finely chopped (but not a puree). You will have to add the ingredients in 2 batches. Strain through a medium-mesh strainer. Chill well in the refrigerator. Serve over ice with a garnish of fresh pineapple.

Tacosby Mark Miller with Benjamin Hargett and Jane Horn. Copyright © 2009 by Mark Miller with Benjamin Hargett and Jane Horn. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Mark Miller is the acclaimed chef-founder of Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has started and owned thirteen different restaurants on three continents from 1979 to 2008. He is the author of ten books with nearly 1 million copies in print, includingTacos, The Great Chile Book, The Great Salsa Book, andCoyote Cafe. Mark currently works in International Culinary Consulting and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Benjamin Hargett is a travel-loving chef who has cooked in Europe, the Carribean, Mexico, and the United States, where he worked with Mark Miller at the Coyote Café for many years.
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