Strawberry Agua Fresca – Sharon Palmer, The Plant Powered Dietitian

This Strawberry Agua Fresca is an exquisite, wholesome, fruity beverage that provides simply the suitable thirst-quenching style for any event, from picnics and out of doors events, to after college hydration and weeknight dinner tables.

What’s agua fresca?

The sunshine, contemporary custom of agua fresca (actually “contemporary water”) originates from Central America. You might need seen massive containers of fruit-filled waters at Mexican eating places as your first publicity to agua fresca. And you must actually give these flavorful, thirst-quenching drinks a attempt!

Whereas I’m not a real skilled on Mexican and Central American foodways, I encourage you to take a look at the work of fellow dietitian Alice Figueroa to study extra about these healthful, stunning meals traditions. The idea of icy water, stuffed with a contact of lime juice and chopped contemporary fruit is a welcome, scrumptious solution to hydrate, with out the necessity for added sugars. Simply combine up a batch of this Strawberry Agua Fresca recipe within the blender, and maintain it chilled within the fridge to get pleasure from as a healthful beverage any night time of the week. It’s additionally scrumptious and fairly as may be served in pitchers or massive jars stuffed with ice at picnics and open-air events.

An agua fresca recipe can characteristic quite a lot of fruits. And take a look at swapping the strawberries out for different seasonal fruit decisions, together with pineapple, mangos, kiwis, papayas, blueberries, or peaches. And if you happen to don’t have contemporary strawberries in season, substitute frozen.

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