To give you some inspiration for what to create with your CSA box this week, we’ve got another great recipe lined up for you. This week, we are making Agua de Pepino! This recipe utilizes the cucumbers included in everyone’s CSA box. While we know this is often thought of as a summer beverage, cucumbers are in season and this is Houston—it’s still hot!
Ingredientes
2 cucumbers
6 cups of water
1/3 cup lime juice
2/3 cup sugar (to taste)
Direcciones
- Chop your cucumbers into cube sizes. We’ll leave the skins on so we can take in those nutrients and they also give great color to the drink.
- Juice about 3 limes to yield 1/3 cup of fresh lime juice.
- In a large pitcher, add 2/3 cups of sugar. If you like your drinks less sweet, I recommend going for 1/3 cup sugar to start and then adding more sugar as needed.
- Once all ingredients are prepped, add chopped cucumbers and 5 cups of water to your blender. We’ll reserve one cup for the straining process.
- Blend your cucumbers for 2 to 4 minutes or until everything is well combined and liquified. You should have lots of pulp from the cucumber!
- With a hand-strainer, pour the blended cucumber juice into the pitcher. Use the reserved 1 cup of water to pour over the cucumber pulp and get any last juice out.
- Then add the lime juice into the pitcher and stir everything together!
- Serve it over lots of ice and garnish with lime and/or cucumber.
Our cucumbers come from The Farm Patch farm in Pleasanton, TX. Find them in the farm store this week!
