Chai spiced hot chocolate
A decadent and easy hot chocolate recipe that's been spiced with warming chai spices to make it extra special this festive this season!
Equipment
- Sauce pan
Ingredients
- 400 ml milk whole or semi-skimmed
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- ½ cup dark chocolate roughly chopped
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 2 tbsp honey or any sweetener to taste
- 3-4 green cardamom
- ½ inch cinnamon stick
- ½ tsp nutmeg powder
Instructions
- Mix the cornflour with 2-3 tablespoons of the milk and set it aside. In a saucepan add the milk, honey and cocoa powder, whisk it together and set it to boil over a medium flame
- When the milk mixture comes to a boil, lower the flame and add in the cornflour slurry. Keep stirring and cooking until the milk thickens. Next add the chocolate and remove from flame. Let this sit for 5-7 minutes, undisturbed
- In the meanwhile, lightly toast the cardamoms and cinnamon, in a pan, over medium flame for 3-4 minutes. Remove and grind to a fine powder
- Back to the saucepan, whisk the melted chocolate in with the milk until it is fully incorporated in it. Then add the nutmeg powder and a teaspoon of the cinnamon and cardamom powder, give it a good mix
- Pour this in coffee mugs and serve your deliciously chai spiced hot chocolate, warm with your favourite cookies. Cheers!
Notes
- The cardamom and cinnamon powder is more than what you'd need for this recipe. Store the remaining in an air tight jar to use again
- I have used 75% dark chocolate for my recipe here. You could use any chocolate as per taste
- Adjust the amount of the sweetener in the recipe, as per taste
- ml - millilitres
- tsp - teaspoon
- tbsp - tablespoon
- 1 cup = 25- millilitres