Hot chocolate, Hot cocoa almost everyone's favorite comforting drink for this cold weather and festive season. Ok when talking about hot chocolate and Hot Cocoa, these terms are often used interchangeably, but there’s a big difference between two, especially nutritional properties. Hot chocolate or Drinking chocolate is made from chocolate bars melted into a cream or ground into a powder. Hot chocolate has a very high sugar, fat content and low cocoa content. Hot cocoa is made from raw cocoa powder, which is pressed chocolate which removes the fat of the cocoa butter. You can just mix the hot cocoa mix just with hot water as it contains non-fat dried milk powder, Cocoa powder, sugar etc. The nutrition in Healthy hot Cocoa can be very good for us, especially if you minimize the sugar and fat.
Ok but today I am not posting both hot chocolate and hot cocoa. Something special!!! in which you can feel and taste the heavenly chocolate flavor. Wondering what’s special in it???? Yah a delicious, heavenly and lip smacking chocolate drink with very less sugar, no milk, healthy but tasty. Yah Chocolate drink using coconut water. I got this clue from some magazine which I registered in my mind few months back, from then I am making this often. I bet you will feel the richness of chocolate in every sip :) Try it !!! Sure you will fall in love with this healthy chocolate drink. Here is the recipe for healthy drink for your chocolate craving.....
DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE DRINK
Ingredients:
Coconut water - 500ml (Preferably sweet coconut water, since my coconut water was sweet. I did not add any extra sugar)
Bitter sweet chocolate (60 % Cocoa) - 1/3 cup ( You can use Dark chocolate if you want)
Sugar - add based on your sweetness of coconut water
Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp
Marshmallow - few for topping
Method:
1. Pour coconut water in the pot warm it.
2. Now add the bitter sweet chocolate to it.
3. Whisk it once it is melted and blended with coconut water.
4. Add a Tbsp of good quality cocoa powder. Whisk and let it come to a boil.
5. Switch of the flame. Pour hot in your serving cup. Top it with few marshmallows when it is hot.
Enjoy warm delicious healthy chocolate drink!!!
LOVED the first click!
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ReplyDeleteWould love to sit by the fire with this delightful concoction containing outright tasty ingredients!!! Never would have thought of this combo! And needless to say your pictures are divinely tempting!!!
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hehehe..same pinch :-)Beautiful idea of adding coconut waterand just like CL said I'm in love with those steel mugs :D
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ReplyDeleteI wrote a nice comment, it was just somehow didn't get posted and kind of blew up. Anyways, Wanted to say, I am surprised by addition of coconut water to the drink, very unusual and I am blown away by your clicks and those cute marshmallow toppings.
ReplyDeleteI have never tried the coconut water based HC. Just made some for my daughter for her after school drink. Looks amazing as usual. Loved the close up one 4th from the top. Looks so picture perfect.
ReplyDeletelove love love the pics..stunning to say the least.
ReplyDeletePics r too gud....I loved them...BTW where did u buy the cups n spoons...they added a lot to the pics....
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ReplyDeleteSaw hot chocolate in Namitha's blog... collaborative curry few minutes ago.
Today seems to be a lucky day.. to witness favorite drinks and clicks...
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This is a novel idea Pavithra! I can imagine how this would taste- chocolaty with just a hint of coconut... sounds great for a comforting drink on a cold winter evening. Superb pics as usual!!
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I loved your cups they are beautiful.
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I wish ONE large cup now.
ReplyDeleteRemarkable clicks. Truly fell for your pictures at the first sight.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the explanation between hot chocolate and hot cocoa. Your version with coconut juice sounds very interesting and yummy.
ReplyDeletesinfully delicious. gorgeous presentation
ReplyDeleteLovely collage of photos. I'm very fond of silver with brown. It you don't stop me, I will take a bite out of each of those spoons. ; }
ReplyDeletebeautiful pictures ...not a fan of marsmellows but the way you presented them am drooling over here. love
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ReplyDeleteI'm drooling (literally) by the sight of that hot chocolate! Yummy! Will definitely try this out. Great pictures by the way. Thanks.
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Heavenly is the right description for the hot chocolate.Love your photographs so much that I had to see all of them first before reading your recipe.
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