Proper Hot Chocolate
Proper Hot Chocolate takes about 10 min and serves 2. It needs 5 ingredients: dark chocolate, milk, cocoa powder, cornflour, and sea salt flakes. It is rated easy to make.
- Total time
- 10 min
- Serves
- 2
- Difficulty
- Easy
Ingredients
- 80 g dark chocolate, chopped small
- 500 ml whole milk
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp cornflour
- a small pinch of salt
Method
Make a paste first
Whisk the cocoa and cornflour with a splash of the cold milk into a smooth paste before adding the rest. Tipped into hot milk they clump instantly and no amount of whisking undoes it.
Melt the chocolate in
Warm the milk to just below a simmer, then take it off the heat and whisk in the chopped chocolate until it has dissolved. Boiling the milk with chocolate in it makes it grainy.
4 minThicken gently
Return to a low heat and whisk for a minute or two until it coats the back of a spoon. The cornflour is what gives it body — this should be drunk from a small cup, not a mug.
Season and serve
Add the pinch of salt, whisk hard to a froth, and pour. Salt in a sweet drink sounds wrong and tastes like more chocolate.
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