No Machine Cafe Mocha

INGREDIENTS:

• 2.5 cups full cream milk or semi-skimmed milk
• 2 tablespoon organic cocoa powder or 40 grams dark chocolate
• 2 tablespoons instant coffee or 2 shots (60ml) of freshly brewed coffee
• 2 teaspoons granulated sugar, or to taste
• 4 tablespoons hot water

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In a coffee mug, add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder.
2. Add 1 teaspoon sugar, and 1 tablespoon instant coffee. Feel free to adjust the amount of sugar according to your taste.
3. Then add the 2 tablespoons of hot water to the mug and everything until sugar dissolves completely. Keep it aside.
4. Alternatively, add 20 grams of dark chocolate to a mug along with 2 tablespoons of hot water. Let it sit 2 minutes or until chocolate softens.
5. After 2 minutes, mix everything well.
6. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar.
7. Also add add 1 tablespoon instant coffee and mix again.
8. Once mixed, keep this aside.
9. Now in a saucepan, heat the milk on medium heat.
10. Do not boil the milk, you only need to steam the milk. So, turn off the heat right before it starts to boil. Alternatively, add milk to a microwave-safe bowl and heat for 2 minutes. Stir the milk and heat again for 2 minutes. You only need to heat it until hot but not boiling.
11. Pour the hot milk into a clean heat-resistant bottle or jar.
12. Close the lid tightly and wrap the bottle with a kitchen towel. Now shake the bottle vigorously for about 1 minute or until the milk becomes frothy.
13. Transfer it to to a frothing pitcher, swirl the milk around the pitcher, this trick remove the larger bubbles and you get equally foamed milk.
14. Now pour frothy milk slowly into coffee-chocolate mixture. If you don’t have a frothing pitcher, then you can directly pour it from the bottle.
15. Dust with some cocoa powder or drizzle with chocolate syrup. Serve immediately!