Delish, Easy, Recipes

French Hot Chocolate

French Hot Chocolate is the most approved form of hot chocolate by my grandparents because it has cinnamon in it. They love to have a hot cup of it during monsoons by replacing it with their regular tea.

Ingredients

  • 250ml Full Cream Milk
  • 70gms Dark Chocolate 70% of cocoa (chopped)
  • 1 Cinnamon Bark
  • 1 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 1 Tsp Sugar (optional)
  • A pinch of salt

Preparation

Prep: 15 minutes
Cooking: 20 minutes

  1. In a pan/kadhai, pour milk, add cinnamon and vanilla essence. Stir and give it a boil and then turn the gas to a low flame.
  2. After 7-8 minutes, remove the cinnamon bark and add cocoa powder and stir until no lumps.
  3. Sieve the whole mixture in another pan/kadhai.
  4. Keep the sieved mixture on a low flame. Add sugar (optional) and salt.
  5. Then add chopped dark chocolate and keep stirring.
  6. After 5 minutes, serve warm!

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Ruchita Mane

I've always lived with my Nana-Nani and my Nani makes amazing food so I barely cook. I recently graduated as a Software Engineer and before I could look for a job, the pandemic broke and we were all under lockdown. The search came to a halt and the anxiety about the future hit me hard. I had to get out of that feeling so I diverted my mind into exercising, yoga, meditation and even cooking. I started with helping my Nani by chopping vegetables, making tadkas, kneading soft doughs and in no time, I was rolling round chapatis. Cooking kept my mind in the present and made me patient and consistent. My Nani is glad that I don’t make a mess while cooking anymore, that gives her great joy. My Nanaji says that he doesn’t have to go out to a restaurant because I can cook almost everything. Now I don’t want to stop cooking. Thank you, Lockdown!