Recipe: Cocoa tea

Karen Piper
The Silhouette

Cocoa tea is a traditional breakfast beverage in St. Lucia, derived mainly from locally grown cocoa on the island. The cocoa plant grows abundantly in St. Lucia and is world-renowned for its high quality.

This hot delicacy has multiple health benefits such as reducing high blood beverage canadian pharmacy viagra generic and lowering cholesterol. Not to mention, this is the ideal treat to help keep you warm during those cold winter months!

Ingredients:

2 cups water

1 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla essence

3/4 cup grated cocoa

Lime peel of 1 lime

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

3/4 cup brown sugar (optional)

1 tsp ground nutmeg

1 tbsp clove

Preparation:

Pour water, milk, vanilla essence and cocoa into a pot and bring to a boil.

Add lime peel, cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg and clove into the mixture and let it boil for 15 minutes.

Allow the beverage to cool for five minutes before serving.

Strain thoroughly and enjoy!