Hot chocolate
Preparation: less than 30 mins
Cooking time: less than 10 mins
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 litre/1¾ pints milk
- 150g/5½oz plain chocolate, chopped into small pieces
- sugar, to taste
- freshly grated nutmeg, for dusting
Method
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Heat the vanilla pod and seeds, cinnamon stick and milk in a saucepan until boiling.
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Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate pieces, stirring until the chocolate melts.
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Whisk the hot chocolate vigorously until frothy on top and add sugar, to taste. Serve with a dusting of nutmeg.