Pepinos Locos (Mexican Crazy Cucumber Cups)

Three Pepinos Locos cucumber cups filled with chamoy sauce, peanuts, and gummy candies, served on a platter with tortilla chips, lime wedges, and jicama pieces.

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Pepinos Locos (Mexican Crazy Cucumber Cups)

These Pepinos Locos combine cool, crisp cucumber with crunchy jicama and Japanese peanuts, tangy lime, spicy hot sauce, and sweet gummy worms for a fun Mexican street food snack.

Prep Time15

Cook Time0

Total Time15

Course: Appetizers

Cuisine: Mexican

Servings: people

Calories: 249kcal

Author: Maggie Unzueta

Ingredients

1 cucumber
½ cup Chamoy
½ cup Tajín
⅛ jicama cubed
1 Japanese Peanuts (small package)
½ gummy worms package
¼ cup hot sauce
¼ cup lime juice

Instructions

Peel the cucumbers.
Cut off the ends.
Cut into three pieces roughly of the same size.
Using a melon baller, remove the fleshy interior.
Do not go all the way through.
Leave about 1 inch on the bottom to make the "cup."
Pour chamoy onto a plate and Tajín on another plate.
Dip the rim of the cucumber cup in chamoy sauce.
Then dip the cup in the Tajín.
Make sure to go around the entire rim of the cucumber, covering first with chamoy and then with Tajín.
Add some of the jicama, peanuts, hot sauce, and lime inside the cup.
Repeat until the cups are full.
Top with gummy worms.
Drizzle more hot sauce and lime all over.

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Notes

Variations

Empty out packages chaka chaka or tangy tamarind candies on top of spicy potato chips.

Tamarind candy (or pulparindo candies), fresh fruits like mango cubes or pineapple, or pig skins (or cueritos) all make great additions.

You might see people put Clamato juice (or tomato juice) into the cups. Even a splash of beer or tequila.

Storing Instructions: They will get soggy. Instead, store everything separately.

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