{"id":18048,"date":"2013-07-18T23:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T06:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2013-07-18T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T06:04:29","slug":"chamango-popsicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=18048","title":{"rendered":"Chamango Popsicles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I entered this pinterest contest to win a $500 blender after Anthony made me a smoothie with his Vitamix when I was sick (and shortly before he handcuffed me, and Pammie took pictures while he went to get the key, but that&#8217;s a story for another time).<\/p>\n<p>I found a ton of popsicle recipes while making my <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/mayanrocks\/vitamin-shoppe-summer-of-smoothies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summer of Smoothies<\/a> contest board. It&#8217;s been crazy hot lately, so I thought it would be the perfect time to bust out my popsicle tray, Vitamix blender or not.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I miss about San Diego is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/teresitas-fruiteria-san-diego\">Teresita&#8217;s Fruiteria<\/a>. I have to travel to a seedy part of LA to get a good chamango around here\u2014the one place I found was next door to a barber who sells Herbalife in the back of his shop (don&#8217;t ask me how I know). Now I can have chamangos in the safety of my own home, and even better, on a stick!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/homemade_chamango_popsicles.jpg\" alt=\"chamango popsicle recipe\" width=\"435\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chamango Popsicles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12 oz mango chunks (1 frozen bag @ Target)<br \/>\n1 cup water<br \/>\n1 cup sugar<br \/>\n4 tbsp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/El-Chilerito-Hot-Sauce-Chamoy\/dp\/B008CVJGRW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chamoy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Progressive-International-PLP-1-Freezer-Maker\/dp\/B0000CF7H6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Popsicle mold tray<\/a><br \/>\nPopsicle sticks<\/p>\n<p>Blend 12 oz mango chunks, water and sugar until smooth. If it&#8217;s too thick, add more water.<\/p>\n<p>Add half a tbsp of chamoy to the bottom of each popsicle mold. <\/p>\n<p>Pour the blended mixture into each popsicle mold and leave a quarter inch room on top. I filled up 8 molds and had some left over.<\/p>\n<p>Take a popsicle stick and swirl the chamoy around.<\/p>\n<p>Freeze overnight. Once it&#8217;s frozen, you can dip the popsicle tray in warm water and the popsicles should slide right out.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I entered this pinterest contest to win a $500 blender after Anthony made me a smoothie with his Vitamix when I was sick (and shortly before he handcuffed me, and Pammie took pictures while he went to get the key, but that&#8217;s a story for another time). I found a ton of popsicle recipes while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-pinterest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}