Champurrado

Description

A traditional Mexican chocolate drink.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups water
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 whole clove
  • 1 pod star anise (Optional)
  • 4 ¼ cups milk
  • 2 tablets Mexican chocolate (such as Chocolate Ibarra®)
  • ¾ cup pinole (coarse ground maize flour)
  • 1 pinch crushed piloncillo (Mexican brown sugar cone), or more to taste

Instructions

  1. Place water
  2. cinnamon stick
  3. clove
  4. and star anise in a saucepan over medium heat; bring to a boil. Remove from heat and allow spices to steep until water is fragrant
  5. about 10 minutes; strain.
  6. Heat milk
  7. chocolate
  8. and pinole in a separate saucepan over medium heat
  9. whisking until chocolate is dissolved and liquid is thickened
  10. about 10 minutes. Remove from heat; add piloncillo and let rest until sugar is dissolved
  11. about 5 minutes more. Pour cinnamon water into chocolate mixture and stir to combine.

Prep Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 15 mins

Total Time: 35 mins

Servings: 12

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