Mexican Hot Chocolate To Knock Your Socks Off

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 1/4 cups milk
• 1 vanilla bean
• 9 ounces mexican chocolate, tablets, crushed
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 chili pepper, seeds removed
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 1 pinch salt

Recipe

• 1 bring milk to a simmer with the vanilla bean and infuse for 10 minutes.
• 2 meanwhile, combine water and crushed chocolate in a bowl.
• 3 remove vanilla bean and slit lengthwise.
• 4 scrape out the contents and stir into the chocolate and water.
• 5 using a whisk, stir chocolate mixture into the hot milk and whisk briskly until the chocolate has melted completely.
• 6 chop the chili very finely.
• 7 stir into the drink with the honey and salt.
• 8 serve hot.