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Mote con Huesillo

Name: Mote con Huesillo
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chile
Ingredients: 8 Dried Peaches; 80g Pearl Barley; 100g Brown sugar; 1 Cinnamon stick; A pinch Orange Zest; 1.2L Water

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Dried peaches in syrup with cooked wheat — Chile's sweet summer drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mote con huesillo is the drink of the Chilean summer: dried peaches (huesillos) are simmered soft with dark sugar and cinnamon, chilled, and served with cooked wheat (mote). It's sold at stalls in Santiago's parks and streets, and you drink it while eating the wheat and peach with a spoon.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Santiago park in summer, a vendor fills a tall glass with amber syrup, a peach, and white wheat and hands it over with a spoon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Dried Peaches 8
Pearl Barley 80g
Brown sugar 100g
Cinnamon stick 1
Orange Zest A pinch
Water 1.2L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the dried peaches in water overnight.
Put them in a pot with their soaking water, add dark sugar, cinnamon, and orange peel, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Cook the barley in a separate pot until tender, then rinse.
Chill the syrup and peaches well.
Put the barley in a glass, add the peaches and syrup, and serve with a spoon.

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