Spiced Belgian Hot Chocolate
About:
Hot Chocolate is the classic way to warm up on a winters day like today. But we think the Mexicans have the right idea… add some heat to your hot chocolate with some warming spices. Try this luxurious tongue-tingling Spiced Hot Chocolate. Sweeter and more fragrant than the regular stuff, with hints of cardamom and spices, it’s one of my favourite things to drink at this time of year. The result is a foamy, warm delicious drink.
Health Benefits:
Serves-2
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- Any milk of choice-2 cups
- Belgian Dark chocolate(60%) -100 gms (Finely chopped/grated)
- Stevia/Any sweetner – 2-3 tsp (or as sweet preferred)
- Ground Cardamom – 1/2tsp
- Ground Nutmeg – 1/2tsp
Procedure:
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, whisk together milk, stevia and bring it to boil
- Once the milk comes to boil remove the saucepan from heat and stir in chopped chocolate until melted, returning the saucepan to low heat and just heat until the chocolate melts.
- Finally once the chocolate melts- turn off the flame and stir in ground cardamom and nutmeg.
- Serve warm as is or topped with some whipped Coconut/Cream.
Note:
- For creamy texture feel free to include cream
I used Belgian dark chocolate here -it can be replaced with any dark cooking chocolate.
Since I used Belgian chocolate -reduced the sweetner – sweetness can be adjusted as per the taste..
Posted on February 9, 2016, in Juices/Beverages, Vegan and tagged cardamom flavoured hot chocolate, Chitras healthy kitchen, chocolate drinks recipe, drchdietfood, hot bevarages., Hot chocolate healthy recipe;Vegan drinks, hot drinks recipe, stevie hot drinks. Bookmark the permalink. 67 Comments.
Another new spice – carom, also called ajwain ?
This looks amazingly delicious, Chitra – and amazingly unsuitable for MOI ! Sighh … [grin]
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M-R they really adds fragnance and aroma to the coffee…
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Sounds yummy! Especially now that the weather is so cold. 😉
I thought carom was a typo at first. Had never heard of that type of seed, I will have to try to find some! Also I really rarely ever hear if anyone using mace, much less in hot chocolate. Very intriguing recipe!
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HD – So nice to hear…This drink cameout well and brings lot of medicinal properties with those spices…
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Reblogged this on MrMilitantNegro™.
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Thank you
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I love the spices you are using in this hot chocolate!! Sounds delish!
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Thanks Bernice…These spices really made a difference to the drink
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Wonderful Chitra! Love spiced hot chocolate and really love the spice blend here.
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Thanx a million bunch Suzanne for your support and encouragement. … good day… 🙂 🙂
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Absolutely delicious, Chitra 🙂 Love the cardamom.
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Thanx Linda. …. cardamom in any dish gives a pleasant flavour. … good day dear… 🙂 🙂
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Reblogged this on sliceofheaveninsweden and commented:
The healing properties of the spices and my favorite warm beverage sounds delicious. I don’t know about finding carom or mace here. I am going to see if we can find it .
Honey
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Thank Honey for your support
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I like this one. Indulgent but nice.
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Thank you and glad you liked it
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Reblogged this on Chef Ceaser.
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Thanks for your continued support
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I’ve never had anything like this. I’m intrigued.
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Oh thatz so sweet of you Teagan. .. feel blessed to hear such feed back. .. thanx a bunch…
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I want a cup of hot chocolate now 🙂 Gonna prepare it soon Chitra, my mouth is watery now 😀
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Come over will make it for you… 🙂 🙂
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Sounds fantastic. I love chocolate mixed with spices!
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Thanx Gretchen……. am a chocolate freaky so anything chocolate fetches me. .. glad you liked it tooo… 🙂 🙂
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I just discovered the spice Mace when looking to order spices online. How would you describe the flavor? This looks wonderful!
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Mmmmm I could say it’s similar to lavender in enhancing it’s flavour when added to any dishes…:) 🙂
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Thanks for the input. 🙂
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My pleasure…. 🙂 🙂
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Love your recipes….Simple / quick!! My Grandma was a big FAN of Caring seeds & mace!!
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Thank you Sia for your compliments. It means a lot to me
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Awesome, love the spices! I’m going to spice up my almond milk like this to see if it becomes more palatable.
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Try it out Apsara am sure you will love it and if your a chocolate freak this will be nice way to indulge. .. thanx dear…
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My idea of the perfect beverage, Chitra!
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Thanks Annie…So happy you liked it
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This sounds so yummy spicy
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Thanks a lot Lynz
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🙂
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Perfect.. for mid afternoon. .
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Indeed…Thank you Bikramji. ..:)
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Oh wow this looks so creamy and delicious! What a perfect drink for a cold weather’s day! Spice and chocolate and nice and warm. 🙂
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Thanks a lot Kathryn. .. definitely a treat for this cold weather… glad you liked it ….:) 🙂
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Perfect for a cold day…like the addition of spices to this hot chocolate:))
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Thank you Shy…:)
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Looks delicious..👍
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Thank you Neethu for stopping by. ..good day..
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I love hot chocolate. Thanks for sharing this.
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My Pleasure Chaitali. .. Thanks a lot for stopping by…good day. 🙂
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This is called awesomeness in a cup 🙂
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Thanks a lot dear…:)
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Mmm, cardamom and nutmeg in hot chocolate; we’ve not tried this combination but it’s definitely one to try this weekend! 🙂
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It was a lovely combo indeed…please do give it a try and let me know and am sure you will love it as I did. .. Thank you… 🙂 🙂
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-8* looks nice!!
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Thank you …
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Wow nutmeg n cardamom in hot chocolate.. Should try ghis
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Thank you Sri… it was a lovely combo indeed… glad you liked it. . 🙂 🙂
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Reblogged this on Home Made Dreams!.
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Thanks Javier.
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Soooooo tempting!
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Thank you dear…:) 🙂
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So good
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Thank you Ritu…
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I cannot wait to try this. Today!
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Await to hear your feedback Sadie
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I can smell it. Looks so good and yum!
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Thanks a bunch Kushi
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I will have to try your spiced version the next time I want a cup of hot chocolate!
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It was just apt for this weather… please do give it a go and am sure you would enjoy it as we did… 🙂
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