Chocolate from Mexico is best for a hot chocolate recipe (15 minutes)

The Best Hot Chocolate Recipe?

The one made with chocolate from Mexico. Chocolate has been drunk there since pre-Hispanic times, and with the conquest it traveled to Europe and from there all over the world.

The Legend

Quetzalcoatl gave the Toltecs the cocoa beans, so that his people would be well fed and thus be studious, wise, artists and craftsmen.

Quetzalcoatl stole the cacao tree from the paradise where the gods lived and planted the little bush in Tula. After planting it, he asked Tláloc to send rain on the earth so that the plant could feed and grow.

Then he went to visit Xochiquetzal, goddess of love and beauty, and asked her to give the tree beautiful flowers. Over time, the plant flourished and produced cocoa fruits.

This is the legend that is told about the origin of cocoa in Mexico.

Mexican Cocoa Drinks

There are many more cocoa drink recipes than you might think.

• Tascalate : A refreshing drink made with cocoa, corn or tortilla, achiote, cinnamon and sugar.
• Pozol : Fermented drink made from ground corn, banana leaves, and cocoa, sweetened with cane sugar.
• Tejate : Traditional Oaxacan refreshing drink made with sapote, roasted and ground corn, fermented cocoa, cocoa rosita, and sugar.
• Tanchuca : Prepared with corn, anise and chocolate. In some places, such as Sonora, it is prepared with wheat flour, cocoa, and panocha (raw sugar).
• Popo : Energy drink from southern Veracruz made with cocolmeca (plant), cocoa, rice, cassava, and chupipe root sweetened with sugar.
• Bupu : Traditional from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is prepared with white atoll, cinnamon, cocoa, icacaloxúchitl petals and other flowers.
• Champurrado : Made with nixtamal dough or masa (nixtamalized corn flour), water and chocolate bars.

The Hot Chocolate Recipe

Mexican Hot Chocolate

The Best Chocolate
He comes from the state of Oaxaca. The city of Zacatecas produces a very good metate chocolate, or stone-ground chocolate. Chocolate is sold in bars called tablillas (tablets). It’s sweetened with sugar and spiced with cinnamon. Mexican chocolate has a rustic, slightly grainy texture that isn’t completely smooth in the cup. It’s not a flaw, it’s supposed to be like that. Texture is an integral part of the drink.

The two easiest brands to find are “Abuelita” and “Ibarra”. The one you will find in our Mexican grocery store is the “Ibarra”.

Prep Time : 15 min
Total Time : 15 min
Yield : 4 cups

Ingredients

• 1 bar of “Ibarra” chocolate
• 3 cups milk
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation

1. Pour the milk (or water) into a high saucepan over very low heat.
2. Add an “Ibarra” chocolate bar cut into 4.
3. When the chocolate begins to dissolve, whisk together.
4. Add the ground cinnamon and serve.

Hot chocolate is richer when made with milk. If you prepare it with water, the flavor of the chocolate will be more pronounced. Decorate each cup with a cinnamon stick and serve with a pastry.

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Ground cocoa in Oaxaca