Champurrado

Name: Champurrado
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 1/2 cup masa harina; 1 litre milk or water; 90g Mexican chocolate; 80g piloncillo (or dark brown sugar); 1 cinnamon stick

Champurrado/cham-poo-RAH-doh/

Also known as: Atole de Chocolate, Mexican Chocolate Atole

About this dish

A thick, warming Mexican hot chocolate drink thickened with masa and sweetened with piloncillo and cinnamon.

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Ingredients

🌽1/2 cup masa harina

🥛1 litre milk or water

🍫90g Mexican chocolate

🍬80g piloncillo (or dark brown sugar)

🌿1 cinnamon stick

Method

Serves 2

Whisk the masa harina with 2 cups of warm water until smooth.

Heat the milk with the cinnamon and piloncillo until dissolved.

Add the chocolate and stir until melted.

Whisk in the masa mixture and simmer, whisking, for 10 minutes until thick.

Serve hot.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Champurrado is a type of atole drunk on cold mornings and at Day of the Dead and Christmas, often with tamales.

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