Do you know how to cook it, or the ingredients to make the dessert Chirimoya Alegre? Here  you have a proper recipe to make a delicious dessert. The ingedients are 3-4 medium chirimoyas, 1 liter of natural orange juice, and sugar. The first step of this recipe is 1. squeeze the oranges and measure them, 2. peel and remove the seeds from the chirimoya and then cut it into spoon-sized pieces. Add the chirimoya to the bowl with orange juice. 3. sweeten it all you want. Cool, serve and enjoy.

Chirimoya alegre is a very delicious and easy dish to prepare that is also typical of Chile. The chirimoya is a tasty fruit, white, soft and very sweet. We usually eat it in Spring. When you come to Chile in spring , be sure to try it. There are two reasons why orange juice is one of the ingredients: to prevent the fruit from spoiling and to give it a touch of acidity, since chirimoya is a very sweet fruit.

Why is it called that way?  "Alegre" means cheerful.  Why cheerful? According to popular myths, the artist of “fly me to the moon”  once said “orange is the happiest color” so by adding it to the white color of chirimoya, you get this cheerful result. Let´s also  realize  that the artist Mark Twain said that the chirimoya “ is  the most delicious fruit known to man “. Now that you know more about it, every time you eat chirimoya alegre you have an interesting and happy story to tell about the name.