Recipe for Dulce de Icacos or Hicacos
The icacos or hicacos sweet is a rich delicacy that has a pulp with a soft and pleasant texture, inside it has a “nut” with a hazelnut and delicate flavor, which makes this sweet a delicious delicacy. Learn in this simple recipe how to make icaco candy easily and quickly.
Ingredients
- 1 kilo from Icacos or Hicacos
- 1 cinnamon bark
- 15 Cloves
- 6 lemons
- ½ kilo of sugar
- 2 liters of water
Step by step preparation
- The first thing you should do is remove the skin from the fruit; To do this, we make a cross-shaped incision at the ends of the icaco, then we submerge them in a plastic container and add the juice of 4 lemons, letting them soak for 2 hours, after which it is very easy to remove the skin.
- Después procede a colocar en una olla 2 litros de agua, el medio kilo de azúcar, la canela, los clavos de olor y dejamos reducir a la mitad, luego agregamos los icacos pelados, el colorante vegetal y 2 limones cortados en cruz, dejando cocinar hasta que se forme un almíbar denso y la fruta esté en su punto.
- Y listo, así de fácil podrá preparar un rico dulce de icaco.
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Interesting Facts
- This sweet is usually accompanied with cream cheese or pieces of soft white cheese.
- The dulce de Icacos hace parte de los tradicionales dulces de Semana Santa en Colombia donde es tradición que las familias preparen dulces y los compartan con amigos, vecinos y familiares.
- Icaco is a fruit rich in vitamins, mainly ascorbic acid or vitamin C and minerals such as calcium, iron and phosphorus.
- Icaco is also known as: Hicaco, Jicaco or Cotton Plum.
- Hicaco or Icaco is a fruit that in Colombia grows in all regions of the country at altitudes ranging from 0 to 1500 meters above sea level. This is a native fruit that can be found from the United States, throughout Latin America to Brazil, it is very common to find it in coastal areas since it grows very easily in sandy soils. That is why the icaco candy in Colombia is very popular in the Caribbean.
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