Quentão Recipe
Cachaça simmered with ginger, citrus peel and spices — Brazil's winter festival drink, served steaming.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Irish coffee mug
- ABV: 11%
- Difficulty: Medium
Ingredients
- Cachaça60 ml
- Cold water120 ml
- Simple syrup30 ml
- Ginger juice20 ml
- Cinnamon stick1 piece
- Cloves4 piece
How to Make It
- Simmer the water, syrup, ginger juice and spices for ten minutes with a strip of orange peel.
- Take the pan off the heat and stir in the cachaça.
- Strain into warm mugs.
- Garnish with a fresh strip of orange peel.
Garnish
Orange peel
The Story
Poured at the Festas Juninas every June, which fall in the Brazilian winter — the drink exists because the nights are actually cold there.
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