Summer Street Drink · Peach and Wheat Berry
Mote con Huesillo
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It's a drink you eat with a spoon — whole cooked wheat berries and a rehydrated dried peach sit at the bottom, and a vendor's street cry selling it is treated as the unofficial signal that summer has arrived.
Mote con huesillo layers cooked husked wheat (mote) with a whole rehydrated dried peach (huesillo) in a sweet, cinnamon-scented syrup, served chilled in a tall glass. Street vendors sell it from coolers and carts at parks, beaches, and outdoor events across Chile during the hot summer months.
Why it's made this way: There's a Chilean saying that nothing is 'more Chilean than mote con huesillo,' reflecting how tightly the drink is tied to national identity and the rhythm of summer.
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