Hot chocolate in Italian

This chocolate has a pronounced taste of cinnamon and vanilla. When I hear the phrase "Italian hot chocolate", I immediately remember the bicherin that I tried in a coffee shop in Turin on the square in front of the royal palace. And although my recipe has nothing to do with bicherin, it is also delicious and fragrant.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Milk

400

Bitter chocolate

100

Potato starch (with a small slide)

Sugar

Ground cinnamon (pinch)

Vanillin (pinch)

Salt (pinch)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 13 % 4 g

Fats 28 % 9 g

Carbohydrates 59 % 19 g

175 kcal

GI: 32 / 0 / 68

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 25 min

Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients. To make hot chocolate in Italian, we will need: milk, a bar of bitter chocolate; sugar; potato starch; a pinch of ground wheat; a pinch of vanilla; a pinch of salt.
Step 2:
Break the chocolate into small pieces and put it in a saucepan with a thick bottom.
Step 3:
Pour a little milk into the chocolate and melt over low heat, stirring constantly. A homogeneous mass should be obtained.
Step 4:
Dilute starch in the remaining milk.
Step 5:
You need to mix thoroughly so that no lumps remain from the starch, otherwise you will not get rid of them in the finished chocolate. To make the mixture homogeneous for sure, it is better to strain it through a fine sieve.
Step 6:
Pour milk with starch into chocolate in a thin stream, stirring constantly. You need to stir quickly enough so that no lumps appear. Stir the mixture until the two types of milk are completely combined.
Step 7:
Add sugar, vanilla, ground cinnamon and salt to the saucepan. Constantly stirring, cook the chocolate over low heat until it begins to thicken.
Step 8:
Pour the finished chocolate into cups and serve to the table. Bon appetit!

Hot chocolate began its existence long before the advent of coffee and tea.
The cocoa plant began to be grown about 3-4 thousand years ago by the Olmec tribes who lived in the southern part of modern Mexico. But the first chocolate was not made in solid form, as we are used to seeing it now. Instead, the cocoa fruit was crushed and mixed with water to make a kind of paste. She became the first chocolate drink.
The legend, which is closer to us in time, says that Europe learned the taste of chocolate in the XVI century. It was brought to Spain in 1527 by General Cortes along with cocoa beans. For the first time, he tasted a cold whipped thick cocoa drink, with vanilla, hot pepper and other spices, at an Aztec feast. So gradually chocolate conquered the whole world.