Hot Chocolate Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 2 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Makes 2 teacups
Ingredients Needed
- 150g/5ozs dark chocolate
- 300ml/10.6flozs full cream milk
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 - Place the dark chocolate in a food processor and blitz until very fine. Heat the milk in a small saucepan until almost boiling. Whisk in the chocolate powder until smooth. Serve with whipped cream (optional).
Thermomix directions 1: Place the dark chocolate in the TM bowl and set to 10 seconds, speed #8. Add the milk and set to 5 minutes, 80C/speed#1.5.
Personal Note
For this chocolat chaud, I used some chocolate I got in Switzerland. Last month I was on a tour of Switzerland to write about Swiss chocolate. Some of the chocolate was from factory visits, some that I bought for gifts and to eat myself and some just from the hotel. Yes my hotel in Zurich had free chocolate in their lobby that you can help yourself to, it's that much a part of their culture. It also figures as we learnt that Switzerland has the highest per capita chocolate consumption in the world, around 11.8kgs or 26lbs on average a year.
I ended up with around 5kgs/11lbs of chocolate that would put me over the weight in my luggage. My bag weighed 19kgs/42lbs when I left Sydney and weighed 26kg/57lbs on my way back. I actually had my luggage marked heavy because of all of the chocolate (I had a 30kg/66lb limit). But when confronted with a range of chocolate that I had never seen before I could not resist.
Most of the chocolate had nuts in it or some kind of filling but I was given a few bars of pure dark chocolate without any add ins so I decided to use those. And it was worth the antagonism at check-in at Zurich airport!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you believe that dark chocolate is healthy? Do you like French hot chocolate?