These are sweetened and intended to be used as juice flavoring. When buying calamansi juice, make sure you don’t buy something that’s labeled “juice” or “concentrate”. You still have to peel them though after cooking. For salad recipes, I usually buy frozen shrimp with the heads removed already and deveined. To cook the shrimp boil a pot of water and add the shrimp, let cook for 3 minutes. Add the gin dressing to the salad and mix thoroughly.In a separate bowl, mix the gin and calamansi juice.In a large bowl, gently toss together the cucumber, shrimp, grapefruit, onions, ginger, garlic, and cilantro.If you can’t find calamansi, feel free to use limes for this recipe, particularly key limes.ġ/2 grapefruit, peeled, segmented, and torn to bite sized piecesġ cup shrimp, deveined, cooked and peeledġ chili ( jalapeño or serrano), or 1 tsp chili powder It’s nearly impossible to find it outside of Southeast Asia, but thankfully you can now buy packets of calamansi juice in most Filipino or Asian stores. This tiny round lime is super fragrant and is used to flavor everything from marinades and dipping sauces to soups, and even drinks. The most prominent flavor and smell always comes from calamansi or Filipino lime. Other days we had to make do with chips and/or kornik (deep-fried crunchy puffed corn). Some days we had lechon manok (charbroiled whole chicken), liempo (grilled pork belly), kinilaw (raw fish salad), and panga (grilled tuna jaw). This salad is my attempt at recreating those happy, carefree days of my youth spent hanging out at the local beaches with friends, and a motley assortment of snacks and drinks. Not the fresh one, mind you, but rather the neon pink instant powdered ones. On rare instances when we had extra cash on hand, the go to upgrade was gin-po, a cocktail made of cheap gin mixed with pomelo juice. However, we mostly kept the drinking to private properties like our homes or private, fee charging beaches and not in bars or restaurants. There is no official, or at least strictly enforced minimum drinking age, so high schoolers drinking was quite the norm. When I was a teenager in the Philippines, the alcoholic beverage of choice was whatever was the cheapest.
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