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Costa Rica is a really beautiful country and beside the friendly people and the amazing nature we also fell in love with the Batidos – Costa Ricas shakes.

They are either made with water or milk and an added flavour – if you want to order one just ask for (pineapple in that case)

• Batido con agua y piña – watershake with pineapple
• Batido con leche y piña – milkshake with pineapple

Making them is quite simple, if you follow these simple steps:

1. Get your mixer ready
2. Put some icecubes in the mixer and crush them
3. Continue if fruits otherwise go to 4:
   Add the fruitpieces to the crushed ice and mix until it is a rather thick pulp. Depending on the fruit you may want to add a little bit of brown sugar
4. Add water or milk and mix until the Batido is really foamy (can take a few minutes).
   Good tip from Gerald: add 1-2 icecubes now and mix again – it get’s foamier

Now to the flavours we found in Costa Rica. Water/Milk tells you just what we drank them with …