Description
Ingredients
1 1/4 cup of water (300ml)
4–6 cardamon pods (depends how much cardamom you like)
7 grams unrefined chocolate (also known as baking chocolate or 100% cacao chocolate) should be in a solid form, not powdered form. This is not cocoa powder.
2 dates (remove seeds first)
Instructions
- Place water, pods, and dates in a pot and boil for 2 minutes. Allowing to boil will release the aroma of the cardamom.
- Remove from heat and place pods, dates, chocolate, and half of the water in a small blender and blend until the dates are liquid. My favorite blender for this is Magic Bullet, but make sure not to add all the hot water, only a bit to get it blending.
- Sieve into your cup and add the remaining water from the pot.
Notes
- You can replace the dates with the sweetener of your choice, 1 tablespoon or 15 grams of sugar replaces 1 date.
- The date in this recipe is purely to avoid using sugar, it is not necessary, but a bit healthier.
- I blend in either a magic bullet or Vitamix. Sometimes I prefer the ease of the Magic Bullet but I have to be very careful because the water is hot. If you are going to use a small blender, only pour half of the boiled water into the blender with the things you need to blend. Then you can add the remaining water into your cup with the blended ingredients.
- I prefer Vitamix because it does not matter if the water is super hot, there is enough room in my Vitamix for the steam, but it is more time consuming to clean up.
- Category: drinks
- Method: boil and blend
Keywords: hot chocolate, cacao drinks, cocoa drinks, hot cocoa