Santol-ade {Wild Mangosteen Juice}
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 large santol/wild mangosteen
- 8 cups of water
- 1 cup sugar
- lots of ice
- ¼ cup calamansi juice {optional}
Instructions
- Dissolve sugar in 3 cups water.
- Peel santol/wild mangosteen and chop it up horizontally and vertically.
- Crumble it into pieces into the water with dissolved sugar.
- Do this one by one to prevent the rind from turning brown.
- You can also purée half the rind using a blender. It would be a lot more flavorful.
- Add the rest of the water and calamansi juice. Stir.
- Steep in the fridge for 4 hours, letting the flavor of the rind and the seeds into the water.
- Serve with lots of ice