Homemade cocoa hot chocolate

From ordinary products, delicious, a holiday every day! Homemade hot chocolate made from cocoa powder is prepared very quickly and simply. Thanks to the addition of starch, it turns out thick, rich and very fragrant! Treat yourself to a cup of delicious drink on a cold autumn or winter evening!

Julia M.

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Cocoa powder

Fat cream

350

Water

Starch

Sugar

Cinnamon (optional)

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 7 % 3 g

Fats 62 % 28 g

Carbohydrates 31 % 14 g

322 kcal

GI: 36 / 0 / 64

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 10 min

Step 1:
How to make homemade hot chocolate from cocoa powder? Prepare the products. Cocoa for such a drink, take natural, without additives, a powder like "Nesquik" will not work. Cream can take any fat content, to taste. Starch is suitable for both potato and corn. Take twice as much corn. In a hot chocolate ladle, mix cocoa and starch.
Step 2:
Add cold water to the ladle and stir so that the cocoa powder and starch mix evenly. Then put the ladle on a small fire and heat the mixture, stirring constantly, until the ingredients dissolve.
Step 3:
Next, pour the cream into the ladle and continue heating with constant stirring.
Step 4:
Add sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil. Constantly stir so that nothing burns to the bottom.
Step 5:
Boil the hot chocolate for about a minute after boiling.
Step 6:
Immediately pour the drink hot into the prepared glasses and help yourself. A nice addition to such a drink will be a handful of marshmallows added to it. From the high temperature of the drink, they will start to melt and it will be even tastier! Have a nice treat!

Hot chocolate was cooked back in the days of the ancient Aztecs. At that time, it was served bitter and cold, and only to notable persons. The Indians ground cocoa beans into a paste, then added spices and water and whipped the resulting liquid until foam was obtained. Such a drink was called "chocolatl" - "foam water". Hence the name – chocolate.

Such an exquisite drink can be easily prepared at home. The main taste of the drink will depend on cocoa. Therefore, it is not worth saving on quality.

If you are afraid of extra calories, then you can use milk instead of cream. For flavor, when cooking, you can add spices, such as a stick of cinnamon or a couple of stars of star anise. Before serving them, of course, it will be necessary to extract them from the drink.

And for more warming, you can pour a little rum or cognac. This drink will perfectly cheer up and warm up after the autumn, cold wind. For children, of course, such additives are excluded. But they are happy to catch the melted marshmallows from the drink, which when they melt, begin to stretch.

Cream for this recipe can be of any fat content, but remember that the higher the percentage of fat content of the products you use, the higher the calorie content of the dish will be.

Instead of sugar, you can use a sweetener that is not afraid of heat treatment.

For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.