Upgrade Your Hot Chocolate: Make Blender Champurrado

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Upgrade Your Hot Chocolate: Make Blender Champurrado

Save this cozy rich chocolate drink to try during the winter holiday season. What’s Champurrado? It’s a traditional Mexican drink made with Mexican chocolate, piloncillo, and masa harina plus spices like cinnamon and star anise. 

This version uses ceremonial grade cacao and coconut sugar. I also used steeped Canelita Tea instead of water to infuse the drink with cinnamon and give it a caffeine boost from the black tea. 

I find that drinking the cacao is something that grounds me and connects me to my ancestors. I am grateful for this practice. I put my simple Mug Mindfulness Practice that you can listen to below. You can also download the Cooking Meditation Album

Note: Can’t find ceremonial-grade cacao? You can also use 2 Tbsp. of powdered cacao. Also, I don’t sweeten mine, but feel free to use your favorite sweetener. 

xo Chef Carla 

PS: Want to try ceremonial-grade cacao? Use the code ChefCarla10 Open Your Heart with Cacao

Champurrado:

Serves: 2 servings 

Ingredients

4 bags Tadin Canelita Tea

1 cup boiling water

1 cup milk of choice 

2 Tbsp. masa harina (corn flour)

3 cinnamon sticks 

1 star anise

1/4 cup finely chopped ceremonial grade cacao

1–2 tsp. coconut sugar, or preferred sweetener 

1/16 tsp. salt, smallest pinch 

Instructions Champurrado:

1. Add the boiling water over the tea bags in a mug and top with a small plate or lid. Steep for five minutes. Remove the plate and the tea bags. 

2. Add the steeped tea and milk into a heavy bottomed pot. Whisk in the masa harina while continuously stirring, to avoid lumps. 

3. Add in the cinnamon stick and star anise. Cook for 10 minutes on medium low stirring occasionally. Take out the cinnamon stick and star anise.

4. Turn off the heat, add in the chopped cacao, coconut sugar, and pinch of salt, whisk until combined (see blender directions below). 

5. Pour the mixture into mugs and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

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Mug Mindfulness Full Transcript:

Hey it's chef Carla and welcome to your mug mindfulness practice. I invite you to get whatever beverage you like hot or cold and place your hands around it and really feel the temperature here is it hot. Is it cold if it's too hot. Maybe you want to pull your hands back, just a tiny bit. Really be in the presence of the mug.

I'm going to invite you to take a deep breath in your nose and a deep breath out your nose or mouth. There's nothing else to do. There's nowhere else to go. There's nothing else to think of you're simply having an experience with your beverage right now I'm to invite you to take one more deep breath in your nose and a deep breath out your nose or mouth I'm going to invite you to smell the beverage really take an inhale here and what does it smell like.

Can you imagine what it tastes like go ahead and take a sip. What is the flavor? What is the temperature? How does it feel in your mouth? I would invite you to take another deep breath in your nose. And a deep breath out your nose or mouth and I hope that you enjoy your cup I'm sending you so much. Love bye.

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