Ecuadorian Beverages

Specialised

CANELAZO — hot naranjilla or cinnamon water with panela and AGUARDIENTE de caña, drunk against the highland night cold and at the Quito fiestas; without the spirit it is a hervido or agua de canela. CHICHA — maize (chicha de jora), yuca in the Amazon, or fruit — fermented, and older than anything else on this list. COLADA MORADA in its season. MOROCHO, a hot maize-and-milk drink. HORCHATA LOJANA, the red flower infusion. ROSERO quiteño. Fresh JUGOS of naranjilla, tomate de árbol, maracuyá, mora and taxo. Coffee, now increasingly Ecuadorian rather than instant. And the aguas de frescos, the herbal infusions sold by the bunch.