Cherry Apricot Capirotada - Kitchen Wrangler | Melissa Guerra

Cherry Apricot Capirotada - Kitchen Wrangler | Melissa Guerra

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Every Easter we make a huge batch of capirotada to enjoy with the family, but there is no reason that we can't update this traditional dessert!

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Ingredients

  • 2 qt. water (2lt)
  • 1 lb. piloncillo cones (500g – substitute firmly packed brown sugar)
  • 2 pc. star anise
  • ½ tsp. anise seeds (1g)
  • ½ tsp. cloves (1 gr)
  • ½ tsp. whole black pepper (1 gr)
  • 2 sticks cinnamon
  • 1.5 sticks butter (173g)
  • 1 small bunch of green onions (about 6-8), chopped
  • 1 lb. stale bread, broken into pieces (500g)
  • 8 oz. cheese (250g) cut into ¼” cubes (.6cm)
  • 4 oz. pecan halves (125g), roughly chopped
  • 6 oz. dried pitted apricots (170g)
  • 8 oz. dried cherries, (250g) blueberries or mixture of your favorite dried fruits

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