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Api

Name: Api
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Bolivia
Ingredients: 100g Purple Corn Flour (or cornstarch); 1.2L Water; 2 Cinnamon stick; 4 pods Clove; 100g Sugar; A pinch Lemon zest; 100g Frozen mixed berries

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Purple corn flour simmered with cinnamon and cloves — Bolivia's warm morning drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Api is a traditional warm Bolivian drink: purple corn flour is dissolved in water and simmered thick with cinnamon, cloves, and sugar. It's classically drunk on cold highland mornings with pastel (fried pastry) or buñuelos. Besides purple, there's also white api made with white corn.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Early morning in La Paz, purple api is poured from a big pot into cups in a corner of the market and handed to commuters with hot cheese pastries.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Purple Corn Flour (or cornstarch) 100g
Water 1.2L
Cinnamon stick 2
Clove 4 pods
Sugar 100g
Lemon zest A pinch
Frozen mixed berries 100g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer 1L water with the cinnamon, cloves, and lemon peel for 15 minutes.
Add the berries, simmer 5 minutes, blend, and strain.
Dissolve the purple corn flour in 200ml water.
Add the dissolved flour to the spiced liquid and simmer 10 minutes, stirring, until thick.
Add the sugar to dissolve.
Pour into cups while warm.

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