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Mavi
Mavi is a traditional Puerto Rican recipe for a classic drink made from mauby bark and spices in a sweetened water base. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Puerto Rican version of: Mavi.
prep time
10 minutes
cook time
10 minutes
Total Time:
20 minutes
Additional Time:
(+cooling)
Serves:
6
Rating: 
Tags : Vegetarian RecipesSpice RecipesPuerto-rico Recipes
Mavi is the Puerto Rican version of the drink known elsewhere in the Caribbean as 'mauby'. The main constituent is
mauby bark (the dried bark of certain trees in the
Colubrina genus including
Colubrina elliptica (also called
behuco indio) and
Colubrina arborescens, a small tree of the buckthorn family, commonly referred to as "soldierwood" or "naked wood" native to the northern Caribbean and south Florida. You can often buy the dried bark in West Indian or Caribbean markets. The drink's flavour is initially sweet, somewhat like root beer, but changes to a prolonged, but not astringent bitter aftertaste.
Ingredients:
1 tbsp dried mauby bark
1 small piece of ginger
dried orange peel
1 cinnamon stick
3-4 whole cloves
1.5l water
400g sugar
Method:
Add 250ml of the water to a saucepan and add in the mauby bark, ginger, orange peel, cinnamon stick and cloves. Place over medium heat, bring to a boil and continue boiling for 10 minutes. Take off the heat, beat in the sugar to dissolve, mix in the remaining water then set aside to cool.
Strain the liquid then refrigerate until ready to drink.
Covered, it will last about two weeks in the refrigerator.
