Strawberry Licuados

Although banana licuados are the most common variety (a fact influenced by financial motives - like many things in Mexican cuisine), most people would considerate a licuado made of strawberries a special treat for a lucky day.  Ours was decided by a stop at the Cuatro Caminos subway station while running errands, where there is a regular strawberry vendor hawking his goods for 10 pesos/kilo (a steal for strawberries)!

The basic formula for making a licuado stays generally the same, no matter what the fruit. The quantity of milk and ice and the procedures will be constant, but the amount of fruit and sugar may vary. For a strawberry licuado, you will want 400 g of strawberries and 3 tablespoons of sugar for 500g whole milk and 4 ice cubes for a thick, creamy, cool treat (which is more apt as dessert than breakfast, in contrast to the banana one).