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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Caribbean >> Rest Caribbean

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Put the water, brown or date sugar in a heavy pan. | 2. Simmer stirring constantly for 3 minutes. | 3. Add the pineapple juice and grated lemon peel and simmer till the syrup gets very thick. | 4. To make the mampostial, just add the coconut and the crushed pineapple to the thick syrup and cook it, stirring constantly until it gets very thick. | 5. You now have 2 options on how to use this thick candy mix. | 6. A. Pour it or dump it onto a non-stick cookie sheet and let it cool. | 7. After that you can cut it in squares and wrap them on plastic wrap and refrigerate them till you are ready to eat them. | 8. B. You can pour the thick candy mix from the pan into the prebaked pie crust and just chill in the refrigerator till you serve it. | 9. This will be further removed from the traditional mampostial but is simply yummy! | 10. These are two different variations of a delicious traditional dessert from Puerto Rico. | 11. You can find more tasty dishes with both a tropical and a Mediterranean flair completely free on my website: www.frontiernet.net/~rexfam. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
brown sugar	4	cups		3344.0	863.192	1.056	0.0
orange juice	1	cup		111.6	25.791999999999998	1.736	0.496
lemon	1	tablespoon	grated rind	3.8425	1.2349	0.1458	0.0397
coconut	1/2	cup	grated shredded	141.6	6.0920000000000005	1.3319999999999999	13.395999999999999
pineapple juice	1/2	cup	crushed	66.25	16.0875	0.45	0.15
pie crust	1		pre-baked	-	-	-	-
wrap				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.