SWEET LECHOSA (PAPAYA) /by @KENYAESCALONAG🍯🍯

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This rich sweet belongs to the typical Venezuelan sweet shop, it is consumed all year round and is never lacking in the holidays. It is a sweet in syrup, seasoned with cloves, and cinnamon, very easy and cheap to make.

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Ingredients:

• 1 large green owl

• 1/2 k of sugar

• 1/2 panela o papelon

• 500ml of water

• 1 to 2 tablespoons of baking soda

• Cloves

• Cinnamon stick

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STEPS FOR THE PREPARATION:

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1- The first thing we must do is wash it very well, to clean what we generally call fruit milk, which is a white liquid that comes out of it and remove all the skin and chop it into elongated pieces that are not very fine.

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2-place to soak in a container with water and baking soda for 4 hours in my case I left them overnight, after the soaking time the water is removed and washed again

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3- In a saucepan place the water with the sugar and the spices when heating a little, I introduced the papaya.

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4-And leave for approximately one to two hours, stirring regularly, until the fruit turns a crystalline color.

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TIPS

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If you want it dark, you can put brown paper or panela on it, this is optional, if not you can let the syrup brown a little, just a little and add a little more water so that it does not caramelize, so that the syrup is not caramelized.

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I hope you like it, sweet day