Recipe for Lemon Sweet from Mompox
The Mompox Lemon Dulce is one of the most popular and traditional sweets prepared in this Colombian municipality, a world heritage site. It is a recipe that takes several days to prepare but is worth it due to its exotic flavor. Here you will learn how to prepare Momposino's Lemon Dulce step by step and quickly and easily.
Ingredients
- 100 lemons
- 7 cups of sugar
- 7 cups of water
- Nails to taste
- Cinnamon to taste
Step by step preparation
- The first thing to do is to choose the lemons very carefully, since any blow can damage them, then proceed to rub them with a piece of fique so that they lose oil and juice from the rind (you should avoid squeezing them during the process).
- Then proceed to make an incision or cross-shaped cut on the tip of the lemon, then place them in water for 2 days, changing it several times, this is so that they lose the bitter taste.
- On the third day you must take out the lemons and through the incision I made, remove the pulp, then cook them in water until they are soft.
- With the water, sugar, cloves and cinnamon, prepare a syrup, and put the lemons to soak, that is, to cook in the syrup until it is reduced.
- Then place the lemons and syrup in a glass jar and leave it preserved for 1 week.
- Once the week has passed, another syrup is made in which they are placed to soak again. This operation must be repeated once more a week.
Interesting Facts
- Esta receta durante muchos años fue preparada solo por unas familias específicas de Mompox, esto ha hecho que se convierta en una muestra gastronómica muy tradicional del municipio, también es muy común prepararlo durante Semana Santa.
- It is a very laborious recipe and if you do not take due care during its preparation it will be ruined.
- Among the benefits of lemons we find their high level of vitamin C, which is a powerful antioxidant, it also has a good amount of plant compounds called flavonoids, which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
- Otra de las muestras gastronómicas mas tradicionales de Mompox son el layer cheese.
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