Coquito Recipe (Puerto Rican Eggnog)

How to prepare Puerto Rican eggnog, known as coquito.

There are several recipes that turn up in a Google search for Coquito, which paints a somewhat conflicting picture of how the drink is to be made.

I'm not Puerto Rican, but I've tasted a homemade batch of this stuff in Puerto Rico, and found that the results of the recipe (below) seemed to match with the memory of the beverage. Completely accurate or not, it's a wonderfully addictive drink.

I needed to make a large batch of Coquito, and scaled the ingredients to match a single 750ml bottle of rum.

Recipe for Coquito

The following will make approximately 40 (8oz) servings of Coquito:

One 750ml bottle of white rum
60 ounces of evaporated milk
60 ounces of sweetened condensed milk
60 ounces of cream of coconut
10 egg yolks
5 tablespoons of vanilla extract
2.5 tablespoons of ground cinnamon
One tablespoon of ground cloves
One tablespoon of shaved nutmeg
4 pounds of ice (approximately)

If you think in metric, Google provides quick and easy conversions to these measurements.

Preparation

Get a very large pot and mix the egg yolks (yellow part) with the evaporated milk.
Place the pot on the stove and bring the contents to a simmer, stirring continuously.
Remove from heat source and mix in the rum, condensed milk, cream of coconut, vanilla extract, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Use a blender.
Place the mixture in a refrigerator until cool.
Prior to serving, pour a portion of the mixture into a blender with an arbitrary amount ice. Blend until no ice remains.
Serve in a festive glass and garnish with additional nutmeg shavings or a cinnamon stick if so inclined.

The mixture is quite sweet, and needs the ice to water it down ever so slightly.

The drink is nowhere near strong enough to get you drunk—eggnog is much too filling for such things—rather, the rum adds a nice tropical flavor to the drink. Cognac is sometimes used instead, and said to create a delightfully complex taste.

Cost

The ingredients purchased to make this in Peru aren't particularly cheap when totaled together, but worth the expense. This was the price breakdown of items purchased on December 24, 2007:

One 750ml bottle of white rum: 20.90 soles
Six packages of evaporated milk: 10.40 soles
Five cans of sweetened condensed milk: 19.25 soles
Five cans of cream of coconut: 28.00 soles
A dozen eggs: 4.50 soles
Bottle of vanilla extract: 1.00 sol
Bag of ground cinnamon: 2.60 soles
Bag of ground cloves: 1.90 soles
Bag with three nutmegs: 2.20 soles
Ice: 4.00 soles
Total: 94.75 Peruvian nuevos soles (US$32)

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