Cooking

In Mexico fresh fruit is readily available, cheap and delicious. Consequently there are juice bars on just about every street corner selling fresh fruit juices, fruit waters and milkshakes. They are very easy to make but you do need one essential tool – a liquidiser (blender.) The process is pretty simple:

• Chop up your fruit of choice and put it in the liquidiser.
  
• Add water or milk (depending if you are making fruit water or a fruit shake.) Ice is also a great idea when it’s hot. You can also try adding ice cream.
  
• Add sugar to taste.
  
• Blend and serve.
  
• Fruit drinks are usually served in tall glasses, often with a cherry or part of the original fruit as a decoration.

Try some of the following fruit:
Single fruit ideas:
With water – pineapple, oranges, grapefruit, mandarins, watermelon, papaya, melon, kiwi fruit, strawberries.
With milk – bananas, melon, strawberries.
But feel free to mix and match. Bananas go great with chocolate milk too and with strawberries. Melon and papaya are good together. Citrus fruits mix together well. You can also do this with vegetable juices. Carrot and orange is pretty good and is beetroot and orange.