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Creole-Style Hot Chocolate Recipe

Recipe

Total time: less than 15 minutes

Prep. and cooking time: A few minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

For 4 bowls or 6 cups

- 1 liter (4 cups) milk

- 1 egg

- 4 heaping tbsp. grated or powdered Cocoa

- 6 tbsp. cane or brown sugar

- 1 tbsp. cornstarch

- 1 vanilla bean

- 1 cinnamon stick

- A pinch of grated Nutmeg

- 150 g (5 oz.) toasted almonds or peanuts

Method

In a saucepan, heat the milk with the split and scraped vanilla bean, the cinnamon and the nutmeg;
in a small bowl, combine the cocoa, sugar, cornstarch and egg with a few drops of cold milk;
pour the mixture into the hot milk; let thicken over low heat;
remove the vanilla bean and cinnamon stick; add the peanuts or almonds and serve very hot.

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