Caribbean Cocoa Tea

Ninitha Koya
Ninitha Koya @cook_7798025
St.Lucia

This is not hot chocolate, it is similar but infinitely better. However, I feel it could be an acquired taste too. A breakfast staple in this part of the world, it the freshness of the ingredients that adds to its taste. Try it, you wont be disappointed

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Ingredients

15 mins
2-serving
  1. 1/2 Cup Cocoa , grated (from a cocoa stick)
  2. 2 Cups Water
  3. 1 Cup Milk Evaporated
  4. 1/4 Cup Condensed Milk
  5. 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  6. 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon Powder
  7. 1 Pinch Nutmeg
  8. 1 Tablespoon Corn Flour

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    In a saucepan, bring to boil the water with cinnamon and bay leaf. Boil until the flavours have infused into the water.

  2. 2

    Add the grated cocoa stick to the water. Continue to boil it for another 5-8 minutes.

  3. 3

    Now add the evaporated and the condensed milk. Let it simmer

  4. 4

    While it is simmering, mix the corn flour with some water and add it to the mixture simmering away. Continue to stir as you add the corn flour to prevent any lumps from forming. This is to thicken the tea

  5. 5

    Add the vanilla extract.

  6. 6

    Strain the mixture and serve with a blob of whipped cream. This is not so much a tea in the traditional sense. Here is where it bends towards being more of a hot chocolate than tea.

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This page is about my struggle to achieve world peace, maintain communal harmony and for overall happiness of humankind. And I plan to do that by putting food in your tummy. One tummy at a time.
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