Hot Chocolate

Name: Hot Chocolate
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup full cream milk; 1 cup cream; 4 tsp milk powder; 6 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 1/4 bar dark chocolate; 1/4 tsp vanilla essence; 4 tsp Nutella(optional); 1 inch cinnamon stick(optional); 1 pinch salt; as needed Sugar(if you’re not adding Nutella)

Karan Tripathi (Food Fanatic) @karanfoodfanatic

New Delhi

My recipe of hot chocolate is simple to follow and will give you a rich and super thick hot chocolate, that you could dunk some churros in, or enjoy it by itself.

Karan Tripathi (Food Fanatic) @karanfoodfanatic

New Delhi

My recipe of hot chocolate is simple to follow and will give you a rich and super thick hot chocolate, that you could dunk some churros in, or enjoy it by itself.

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Ingredients

30 mins

2 servings

1 cupfull cream milk
1 cupcream
4 tspmilk powder
6 tspunsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 bardark chocolate
1/4 tspvanilla essence
4 tspNutella(optional)
1 inchcinnamon stick(optional)
1 pinchsalt
as neededSugar(if you’re not adding Nutella)

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Steps

30 mins

1

In a saucepan, combine milk, milk powder and cream and warm it up on low heat. Put in the cinnamon stick for it to release some flavour.
2

Add bits of dark chocolate(the more the cocoa content, the darker it’ll get) and cocoa powder in a bowl, and add in one tablespoon of the hot milk in the saucepan to it. Mix with a whisk and ensure that there are no lumps.
3

Now slowly pour the contents of the bowl into the saucepan and keep stirring.
4

Add the vanilla and you’ll gradually see that the mixture will start to thicken. That’s because of the milk powder and cocoa powder. However, if it is not thick enough as per your choice, then in a separate bowl, mix 1/2 tsp cornstarch and 2 tsp water and then add this to the saucepan. This will thicken it immediately.
5

After simmering for around 10 minutes, you can remove the cinnamon stick.
6

Add Nutella to the saucepan now. This is what I used as the sweetener. However, if unavailable, simply replace it with 3-4 tsp of regular white sugar.
7

Add a tiny pinch of salt to the mixture and you’re rich, creamy and delicious hot chocolate is ready to serve. Top it up with some marshmallows or with s’mores, or enjoy it as it is.
8

Pro-Tip: I chose to get a hint of cinnamon in the hot chocolate but you can easily replace it with star anise and it’ll taste equally good. If you have an adventurous palate, then I’the recommend adding a bit of ginger and/or red chilli powder(a very tiny pinch). You can spike it up, too, with either Baileys or rum.