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Cocoa Tea

Name: Cocoa Tea
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Saint Lucia
Ingredients: 50g (high cacao) Chocolate; 1 tbsp Cocoa powder; 400ml Milk; 200ml Water; 1 Cinnamon stick; A pinch Nutmeg; 1 Bay leaf; 2 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Vanilla Extract

Dessert

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Grated cacao simmered with milk and spices — Saint Lucia's morning drink.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Cocoa tea is essential to the Saint Lucian breakfast: island cacao beans are roasted, ground, and formed into sticks (cocoa sticks), which are grated and simmered with milk, water, cinnamon, nutmeg, and bay leaf. It's rich and fragrant with spice.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a house on a mountain cacao estate in Saint Lucia, grated cacao simmers in a pot and steaming brown drink is poured into cups.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chocolate 50g (high cacao)
Cocoa powder 1 tbsp
Milk 400ml
Water 200ml
Cinnamon stick 1
Nutmeg A pinch
Bay leaf 1
Sugar 2 tbsp
Vanilla Extract A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer water, cinnamon, and bay leaf in a pot for 5 minutes.
Add the chopped chocolate and cocoa to melt.
Add the milk and sugar and warm on low for 5 minutes.
Add the nutmeg and vanilla.
Strain into cups.

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