🇳🇬 How to Make Zobo

Craving Zobo? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Zobo at home, in about 30 min + chilling, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 2 cups dried hibiscus petals (zobo leaves), rinsed
• 1 thumb ginger, sliced
• 1 stick cinnamon, 4 cloves
• 1 pineapple, skin and core only (keep the flesh for eating)
• 2 large oranges, juiced
• sugar or honey to taste
• 8 cups water

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Rinse the hibiscus twice in cold water — dried petals carry grit.
2. Boil the water with the ginger, cinnamon, cloves and pineapple skin for 10 min before the hibiscus goes anywhere near it.
3. Add the hibiscus, boil 5 min, then take it off the heat and steep 20 min. Boiling it longer pulls out a green, tannic bitterness.
4. Strain through a fine sieve, pressing the petals.
5. Sweeten while warm so the sugar dissolves, then stir in the orange juice once cool — heat kills its freshness.
6. Chill hard and serve over ice. It is deep magenta, tart, and should never be served lukewarm.