Batida de Cacao
Description
Batida de Cacao is a traditional cocktail beloved in Bahia state, Brazil. It features an exotic flavor combination of the natural sweet-sour taste of cacao pulp with cachaça, Brazil's national spirit. The unique serving style using cacao pods as drinking vessels adds to its charm. Made exclusively with natural ingredients, it offers a luxurious cocktail experience that lets you directly taste nature's bounty.
Origin
Country of Origin: Brazil （1500s）
When Portuguese settlers arrived in Brazil in the 16th century, they discovered indigenous people making fermented drinks from cacao pulp. This was combined with European distillation techniques and cachaça to create Batida de Cacao.
Birth Date Meaning
Owner of a delicate heart like glass
The delicate and sweet-sour taste of cacao pulp represents a pure and beautiful heart as fragile as glass. It combines the elegance of natural sweetness with the fragility of a heart that, once broken, is difficult to repair.
Famous Quotes
- "Turning the food of gods into drink, that's Brazilian magic" - Brazilian Folk Tradition
Trivia
- Enjoyed as a traditional cocktail using cacao pulp in Bahia state, Brazil
- Features a unique serving style where cacao pods can be used as drinking vessels
- Cachaça is Brazil's national spirit with annual production exceeding 1.5 billion liters
- Cacao pulp comes from the sacred fruit that gave rise to the term Theobroma, meaning 'food of the gods'
- Batida means 'to beat or strike' in Portuguese, referring to the action of mixing ingredients
Recipe
Ingredients:
- Cacao Pulp - 50 g
- Cachaça - 50 ml
- Sugar - 適量 teaspoon
- Ice - 適量 cubes
Instructions:
- Break open fresh cacao pods and extract the pulp
- Taste the cacao pulp to check its sweetness level
- Fill glass with ice
- Pour in the cachaça
- Add the cacao pulp
- Add sugar to taste for sweetness adjustment
- Stir gently and serve