Api Morado – Bolivia’s Colorful Breakfast Drink
One of the most popular Bolivian drinks is api morado, usually referred to as just “api”. Made from purple maize, cinnamon, water and sugar, the beverage is colorful, heavy and delicious. And it makes for a hearty breakfast, especially when accompanied with fritters (buñuelos).
Api is an altiplano drink, popular mainly in the Andean highlands of the country. It makes sense; on cold mountain mornings, there’s nothing better than a steaming hot cup of rich, liquid corn sugar. We tried it a number of times, both in restaurants and from street-side stands. With all the sugar, it might be too sweet for some palettes, and probably isn’t the healthiest thing in the world, but a serving certainly provides plenty of energy for the day.
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June 23, 2011 at 10:40 pm
June 23, 2011 at 11:07 pmBrad Powell
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So, what’s better, Gluvine or Api ? Or, does it depend on the volume consumed ?
June 24, 2011 at 11:53 amMike Powell
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That’s a tough call… Api is non-alcoholic, so I guess I’d go with that. Until about 10am, then I would switch to Glühwein.
June 24, 2011 at 1:39 pmFernando Ruiz Vera
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Great breakfast!
in La Paz, you can’t forget to go to the Titikaka Lake, to the Tihuanacu Ruins and specially go biking th the Death Road to the Yungas Zone, where you can stay for a couple of days enjoying the nature and doing some exteme sports.
There are a lot of interesting and exciting to do in La Paz…Bolivia is a country without an end in exciting things!
June 25, 2011 at 1:36 pmJuergen
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Api gives you the perfect energy boost in the morning! We are loving it. We are planing to spend one week at Titikaka. We did the Tihuanacu ruins this week for the Aymara New Years (we will write about it asap) The Death Road though is not on our list …. we rather go for a similar bike ride when in Cochabamba. As beautiful (almost) and less extreme
What are couple of off the beaten track things to do in La Paz. We will be there until July 12th.
June 26, 2011 at 3:05 pmFernando
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in La Paz, you have to go to the Valle de la Luna (the moon’s valley) in the south of the city, it’s a cool geological rocks just like the moon floor!
I live in Cochabamba, let’s keep in touch when you come over here!!!
June 27, 2011 at 2:40 pmJuergen
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Funny .. we just went to the Valla de la Luna yesterday. It was incredible. Yes! We will be in Cochabamba soon!!! So yeah .. we should meet up. Do you happen to know of someone renting apartments short term? Looking forward to Cochabamba and meet with a reader.
June 24, 2011 at 1:49 pmThe Travel Chica
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That looks delicious! I look forward to trying it for myself in a few months.
June 25, 2011 at 7:37 pmJuergen
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The best api and pasteles are from street vendors! Only pick one where you can get the pasteles straight from the frying pan! YUMMY!