Kitchen appliances and utensils: small saucepan, whisk, deep plate, grater, stove, cup.
Ingredients
Milk | 1 stack |
Dark chocolate | 50 g |
Starch | 1 tsp |
Sugar | 2 tsp |
Cold water | 3 tbsp. l |
Step cooking
- Pour a glass of milk of any fat content into a small saucepan and let it simmer over low heat.
Did you know? If you do not eat animal products, you can use any vegetable milk - almond or coconut, to make hot chocolate. - While the milk is heating, grate 50 g of dark chocolate on a coarse grater - this is usually half the standard bar. To prevent chocolate from melting in your hands, grab it through a paper towel.
- Pour the grated chocolate into hot milk and add 2 tsp. Sahara.
- After that, stir the drink with a whisk until the chocolate chips are completely dissolved.
- Remove the saucepan from the stove, then carefully mix 1 tsp in a separate deep plate. starch and 3 tbsp. l cold water.
- Put the chocolate back on the stove and simmer the milk chocolate mixture to a boil over low heat. Stir constantly, pour diluted starch into the saucepan.
Important!Starch is exactly the ingredient that makes the drink uniform and thick. Without starch, your hot chocolate will turn out liquid and with a greasy film on the surface. - Thoroughly mix all the ingredients with a whisk, after which hot chocolate can be poured into a cup and serve.
Decoration methods and serving options
- To make the supply of hot chocolate more beautiful and refined, you can decorate it with whipped cream or put a ball of vanilla ice cream in a cup.
- On top of cream or ice cream, you can add a sprinkle of cinnamon or cocoa and chopped nuts.
- You can also decorate the drink with grated chocolate or coconut.
- Regular sugar in the recipe can be replaced with vanilla, which will make the drink even more tender and aromatic. You can also add powdered sugar or brown sugar.
- In addition, sugar can be replaced with any other sweetener, for example, your favorite syrup.
- Hot chocolate looks very appetizing in plain white cups or in transparent dishes. If you serve a cup and saucer, you can put a couple of cubes of dark or milk chocolate on it.
Video recipe
You can also watch the video recipe, which shows in detail all the stages of preparing delicious aromatic hot chocolate at home.
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