Simple Way to Make Super Quick Homemade Coquito

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, coquito. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Coquito is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Coquito is something which I have loved my whole life.

And this particular Coquito recipe is extremely creamy and loaded with multiple types of coconut milk, cinnamon, nutmeg and rum! It's a great make ahead Christmas cocktail. We wanted to share with you, our family coquito recipe. Which has received a lot of recognition for it's GREAT taste!

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have coquito using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Coquito:

1. Take 6 egg yolks
2. Make ready 2 (12 oz) cans evaporated milk
3. Make ready 2 cups water
4. Make ready 3 cinnamon sticks
5. Take 1 (15 oz) can cream of coconut
6. Take 1 (13.5 oz) can coconut milk
7. Prepare 2 (14 oz) cans of condensed milk
8. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla
9. Prepare 2 cups white rum

It's a holiday or special occasion drink usually served for Christmas or New Year's Eve. Coquito is a traditional coconut punch served at Christmas and New Year's celebrations in Puerto Rico. But this coquito is a very simple mixed drink you can make from canned cream of coconut. Coquito is like eggnog, but better.

Instructions to make Coquito:

1. Boil the cinnamon sticks in water and reduce to I cup. Set aside to cool.
2. Combine egg yolks and evaporated milk in a heavy gauge pot. Stirring constantly, with a whisk, cook on medium heat until mixture reaches a temperature of 160 degrees F. The mixture should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. *Do not heat too high or too quickly. This will "scramble" the egg yolks.
3. Strain the egg and evaporated milk mixture into a blender. Add cinnamon infused water, condensed milk, coconut milk, coconut cream and vanilla. Blend on low for 1 minute.
4. Put mixture into a large bowl and stir in rum until well combined.
5. Pour into bottles and cool. Store in the refrigerator and serve cold.
6. Enjoy!

But this coquito is a very simple mixed drink you can make from canned cream of coconut. Coquito is like eggnog, but better. Served predominately in Puerto Rico, where it originated, it is a Coquito literally means "little coconut" in Spanish. If you're referring to the size of the serving glass. Think of Coquito as the Puerto Rican version of eggnog!

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