Five recommendations to enjoy the colada morada in Cuenca

Five recommendations to enjoy the colada morada in Cuenca

The sweet drink of which more than 25 ingredients are listed, depending on the place where it is prepared, but which is based on purple cornmeal, is already on sale. And if you visit Cuenca on this holiday, here are five recommendations on where to find it.

Zatua Miski vegan cafe and pastry shop

This place has a plant-based menu and is open from 11:00 to 19:00. It also receives orders and makes national shipments. This year he has added to his offer sourdough bread buses and purple colada ice cream. The founder, Pao Morocho, indicates that she and her mother make the colada morada with her family’s traditional recipe, and sweeten it with brown sugar. There is also a sugar free option. Address: Calle Alfonso Moreno Mora 242 and Federico Proaño.

Frozen purple colada palette at the Zatua Miski pastry shop, Cuenca. Photo: Courtesy

La María Cocina Libre and its purple colada mistela

This year, La María collaborated with Telicioso Tea Room and created a bottle of purple pouring mistela, unique edition, in small bottles that contain all the ingredients of the drink, but macerated in cane brandy. They are open from Monday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 22:00, and they also make shipments to Guayaquil, Quito and other cities. Address: Benigno Malo 516.

Infusion of colada morada in Telicioso Tea Room & Coffee

Telicioso, for its part, also invites you to taste a purple colada herbal tea, because with the usual ingredients they have created an infusion. And there are also gluten-free bread buses, with and without stuffing. Address: Rafael Torres Beltrán 3-103.

Monte Bianco ice cream and pastry shop

How about a purple colada ice cream? That is the specialty of Monte Bianco, which has created a ice cream accompanied by a miniguagua of breadand will be on sale until November 30 at the franchise’s premises in Cuenca and Azogues.

La Veintiúnica brings a combo of colada and buses

This combo is familiar: they are three buses stuffed with pineapple, cheese and secret ingredients, plus a liter of purple colada flavored with blackberry, pineapple, babaco and spices. Orders are received and it is also served at the Presidente Córdova y Borrero location.

Source: Eluniverso

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