Contents
For 1 cup of cocoa: Put 300 ml of milk or water in a saucepan over the fire, bring to a hot state. Put 1-2 teaspoons of cocoa and sugar to taste (as for tea or coffee) in milk, mix well. Bring the cocoa to the first bubbles and turn it off. Pour into a cup and serve hot. Typically, the entire brewing process takes 5 minutes.
How to make cocoa
The easiest way is in a saucepan
- Measure out the liquid – milk, or milk diluted with water, if you want to make the drink lighter. It is convenient to measure the liquid in circles, from which cocoa will then be drunk: for example, an ordinary ikeevsky mug – 300 milliliters.
- Pour the liquid into a small saucepan or Turk, put on the quietest fire. It is customary to cook cocoa for breakfast – and it is better to cook it just in time for serving dishes, as it cools quickly. Put the milk on the quietest fire, and while it is heating, fry eggs or make sandwiches.
- Pour cocoa powder into warm milk (the most common is “Golden Label”) and stir vigorously – for a mug of 300 milliliters you need 1-2 teaspoons of powder (1 – mild taste, 2 – strong with bitterness).
- Then add 1-3 teaspoons of sugar to the drink to taste and depending on the strength of the cocoa.
- Stir the cocoa dynamically for 20 seconds until the lumps of cocoa powder disappear completely, warm up to the first bubbles and pour into a cup.
Add and dissolve chocolate to taste, add cinnamon and citrus zest, decorate with marshmallows. Pour some water immediately into the bottom of the pan, otherwise the dried powder will complicate the pan.
Council: To quickly and effortlessly cook cocoa, use the timer: 1 cup of cocoa will boil in 3-4 minutes. But sometimes you need to cook the cocoa slowly (for example, if you are late and need to step away from the stove before breakfast in the shower). In this case, after dissolving the powder, set the stove to very quiet (usually this is the 2nd power out of 10), then the cocoa will definitely not boil until you switch to a more active fire – and you will only have to bring the cocoa to the first steam.
How to brew cocoa in a coffee maker
Dip the cappuccinatore tube into a mug with milk and sugar, turn it on and wait 2-3 minutes until the drink warms up. But it is not worth filling the cocoa powder in the container of the coffee makers, since it is too small to be steamed.
How to cook cocoa in the microwave
Pour milk or a mixture of water and milk in a ratio to taste into a microwave-safe cup. Add sugar, stir vigorously, put in the microwave for 1 minute at maximum power. The microwave will heat the liquid and now stir until there are no lumps. Put in the microwave to a maximum for another 1-1,5 minutes.
How to brew Dominican cocoa Dominican cocoa is sold in the form of balls or tiles. The balls must be ground or rubbed on a fine grater before cooking. Cook in the same way, but because Dominican cocoa is minimally processed, for a full taste after boiling, boil the drink over low heat for 1-2 minutes.
Bars are prepared in a completely different way: they must be broken and melted like chocolate, and then diluted with milk or water.
Delicious facts
– You need to cook cocoa without a lid and on the quietest fire. It is best to brew as much cocoa as you can drink at a time, as after standing for more than an hour on the stove, the drink will lose its taste.
– Children are very fond of cocoa, but how to cook it so that there is no froth? – If you mix milk with water, there will be no froth. Well, or the foam before serving cocoa can be removed with a spoon.
– Cocoa is useful for those who sit tightly on coffee: if you cook the powder in water and without sugar, it is enough
– It is almost impossible to cook cocoa without sediment, this is how the powder works. But if you really want to please yourself with a drink without grains of powder, drain it through several layers of gauze.
– For cooking cocoa, you can mix milk with water in proportions 1: 1, by the way, with this method, no foam is formed. Alternatively, boil cocoa in water, and add milk or cream to the finished drink.
– For cooking, use any convenient dishes, whether it be a saucepan or a Turk, this drink differs from coffee and tea, which have special devices for brewing and infusion.
– Cocoa does not absorb moisture well, so at the beginning of cooking it should be carefully mix, the powder must be evenly distributed in the water, otherwise it will collapse into lumps.
– Rules selection of cocoa: powder without lumps of uniform brown color; the smell of the product is chocolate, very pleasant, stimulating the desire to immediately drink a cup of the drink. Cocoa powder rubbed with fingers leaves the feeling of an oily product rather than dry dust.
– Doctors have proven the benefits of cocoa: just a cup of drink improves mood – the substances contained in the drink stimulate the production of the “happiness hormone” – serotonin. Cocoa contains invigorating and performance-enhancing caffeine, but in a safe amount.
– The drink contains prolonging youth antioxidants: it improves blood flow to the brain and lowers blood pressure. The product contains a lot of zinc and iron, which are essential for healthy skin and hormonal balance.
– Calorie value ready-made cocoa drink – 69 kcal / 100 grams.