Pink Dragon Fruit Drink
A vibrant drink made with homemade pink pitaya syrup, lime juice and water over ice.
Ingredients
| 3/4 cup | 180 ml | pink pitaya (2 x 3.5oz packages, PitayaPlus brand, or fresh pink pitaya) |
| 1/4 cup | 60 ml | lime juice (juice of about 4 limes) |
| 1/4 cup | 60 ml | orange juice (juice of about 2 oranges) |
| 4 tbsp | 60 ml | pink dragon fruit syrup (add 2 tbsp to make it infused water) |
| 1/4 cup | 60 ml | lime juice |
| 2 cups | 480 ml | water |
| 1 cup | 240 ml | ice |
| 1 | lime, use slices and rind | |
| — | white pitaya, chopped |
Instructions
Make the Syrup: Blend up the pink pitaya or dragonfruit until creamy. If you use the frozen packages, let them thaw of course, before opening the packages. Add no more than 2 tbsp of water to blender to help it blend. If you use fresh pink (remember, it needs to be pink on the inside, not the white one), peel off the outer peel, chop the fruit a bit, and blend it with some water to achieve a creamy texture. Put the blended pitaya mixture in a sauce pan, and simmer, bubbling it down about one-third to one-half the initial amount to thicken it. CONTINUE stirring the entire time and stop before it appears too dry. You want it to be pulpy and wet. This might happen very fast and it might not have reduced the mixture much, that's okay! It's better that you have more mixture, than a dry mixture stuck to the pan. Once you have your pitaya reduced and thickened to your liking, take the pan off the stove and let it cool. This beautiful syrup keeps about 3 days in an air-tight container in the refrigerator. Use it to flavor smoothies and infused water, and to pour on pancakes, waffles and crepes!
Make Pink Dragon Fruit Drink: Add ingredients to a cup, stir and drink.
Other uses of syrup: Use syrup undiluted on pancakes as pancake syrup. Put a few tsp into smoothies or hot water or hot milk to flavor a smoothie, make a hot pitaya tea or latte.