Description
Two mugs of cocoa-and-chocolate drink infused with green cardamom pods.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups Whole milk
- 6 pods Green cardamom pods, lightly cracked
- 2 tablespoons Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Light brown sugar
- 2 ounces Bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 1/16 teaspoon Fine salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Instructions
- Lightly crack 6 green cardamom pods without grinding them to powder. Gently heat 2 cups whole milk and the pods in a small saucepan until steaming, not boiling. Turn off heat, cover and steep 10 minutes. Strain into a clean vessel and return the milk to the pan; discard the pods.
- In a cup, whisk 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder and 1 1/2 tbsp light brown sugar with a few tablespoons of the warm infused milk until smooth. Scrape the paste into the saucepan and whisk with the remaining milk and a small pinch (about 1/16 tsp) fine salt.
- Warm on medium-low, stirring, and add 2 oz finely chopped bittersweet chocolate. Whisk just until melted and the drink is hot but not simmering hard. Take off heat and stir in 1/4 tsp vanilla.
- Divide between two heatproof mugs and serve hot. Taste the test batch to determine whether six pods and the stated sugar give the desired aroma and balance; no whipped cream or marshmallows are in the measured base.
Notes
Recipe-development draft; not kitchen-tested. Timing and yield are estimates. Nutrition has not been calculated.
Additional chilling, resting or cooling time: 10 minutes, included in the total.
Untested estimate: 10 minutes combined gentle heating and whisking plus a 10-minute off-heat cardamom steep. Final mug volume may reduce; no topping time.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Chilling, resting or cooling: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Drinks
Nutrition
- Serving Size: One half of the finished hot chocolate, about 1 cup before evaporation