Mexican Dessert Recipes
Champurrado Hot Chocolate Mexican Style
Champurrado is a chocolate-based Mexican drink, which contains water or milk, poloncillo, masa harina (hominy flour) and sometimes vanilla or anise as a flavoring. Mexicans often crowd around street corner tamale carts as champurrado is served with straws as part of their breakfast.
You can also get an instant champurrado mix in Mexican grocery stores but it tastes best when homemade! Here is a Champurrado recipe so you can make the delicious drink yourself. The aniseeds are optional.
Champurrado - Mexican Hot Chocolate Recipe
Ingredients -
½ cup corn dough (masa) or ½ cup masa flour with ¼ cup hot water
1½ cups water
2¼ cups milk
1 disk Mexican chocolate
¼ crushed aniseeds
3 tablespoons chopped piloncillo or 1/3 cup brown sugar and 2 teaspoons molasses
Preparation:
Blend the water and corn dough in a blender until smooth.
Transfer to a medium saucepan; add milk, chocolate, piloncillo, and aniseeds.
Bring the mixture to a simmer and whisk until all the sugar and chocolate is melted and blended well.
Strain and serve hot.
(Serves 3)
