Puerto Rican Drink Recipes
Coquito at Christmas, a piña colada by the pool, café con leche every morning and a cold Coco Rico from the colmado: these are the drinks of the island.
+3Puerto Rico invented the piña colada and perfected coquito, the coconut-and-rum eggnog of the holidays. Beyond rum there is pitorro, the moonshine cured with fruit, sweet malta, fresh guarapo from the cane press and the café con leche that starts every day. Every recipe below is written for a home kitchen or bar.
Coquito
Coconut cream, condensed milk, cinnamon and white rum blended into the holiday drink every Puerto Rican family bottles in December.
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A Guide to Puerto Rican Drinks
Two drinks define Puerto Rico. The piña colada was created in San Juan in 1954 and is still the island’s official cocktail; coquito is the coconut eggnog made by the bottle every Christmas, often with a splash of pitorro, the homemade rum cured with fruit. The rest of the year the island runs on café con leche in the morning, a cold Coco Rico or malta from the colmado in the afternoon and fresh guarapo pressed from sugarcane on the roadside.
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