Name: Sandia Ochumare (Watermelon Ochumare)
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Afro cuban
Ingredients: ½ cup guarapo (sugarcane juice), or ¼ cup sugar dissolved in ½ cup water; 2 oranges; 1 cup seedless grapes, halved (optional); 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice; Fresh mint; 1 small round seedless watermelon; ½ cup aguardiente or light rum; 1 fresh pineapple

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Eating Cuban

By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs

Published 2006

About

In their facinating book Afro-Cuban Cuisine: Its Myths and Legends, Natalia Bolívar Aróstegui and Carmen González Días de Villegas describe this festive and refreshing dessert as part of a menu to please Yemayá, the Yoruba orisha of the sea and mother of the universe.

Ingredients

1 small round seedless watermelon
½ cup guarapo (sugarcane juice), or ¼ cup</

Method

Cut off the top of the melon for a lid. With a sharp knife and a large spoon, hollow out the watermelon, removing chunks large enough to dice into bite-size pieces, reserving any juice. Dice the melon flesh and set it aside in a large bowl. Pour the juice from the melon through a strainer into a large measuring cup. To 1