Sea Moss Drink

Beverages
Sea Moss Drink

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Sea Moss Drink is a very healthy and popular drink in the Trinidad & Tobago and the rest of the Caribbean. The main ingredient in Sea Moss Drink is Sea Moss.

Sea Moss is a type of sea weed that is dried and sold at the market. The nutritional content of sea moss could probably account for it being considered so good for you. Sea moss contains many vital minerals and vitamins.

Dried sea moss has 45 calories per cup of which 12% comes from fat, 70% from carbohydrates and 18% from protein. Caribbean men are not bashful to claim how much of an elixir and aphrodisiac the sea moss drink is. It is believed to be an excellent reviver and energizer or as they say in Trini, "it good for de back".

Ingredients
1lb Sea Moss
1 lime
Angostura Bitters
milk
sugar

Method
Soak the sea moss in lime juice overnight. Wash thoroughly and cook in pressure cooker for 25 mins until sea moss resembles jelly. Cool, add sugar to taste and then blend until consistent. Add a couple dashes of Angostura bitters to taste. Serve with crushed ice.