🇧🇿 How to Make Cacao Tea

Craving Cacao Tea? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Cacao Tea at home, in about 25 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 4 tbsp roasted cacao beans, ground, or 3 tbsp pure cacao powder
• 2 cups water
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 tsp allspice berries, lightly crushed
• a pinch of black pepper or chilli
• honey or sugar to taste
• a splash of milk (optional)

👩‍🍳 Method

1. If starting from beans, roast them 10 min at 160°C, rub the husks off and grind to a coarse paste.
2. Boil the water with the cinnamon and allspice for 5 min before the cacao goes in — the spices need longer than the chocolate.
3. Whisk in the cacao and simmer 8 min, whisking. It will not emulsify smoothly like cocoa powder; a little separation is normal.
4. Add the pinch of pepper or chilli. It should register as warmth at the back of the throat, not heat.
5. Sweeten to taste and froth it by pouring between two jugs from a height — that aeration is the traditional step and it changes the texture.
6. Serve hot, with a splash of milk if you like. Toledo in the south grows the cacao, and this is far closer to the original Maya drink than anything in a tin.