HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE DRINK ( WITH WHOLE WHEAT, NO PRESERVATIVES)

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It really feels good ( actually great ) to post after such a long time... i mean really looooong time i guess... its been 2.5yrs..a lot happened in my life and my passion with cooking and posting took a back seat...huh.. but now i am trying to get things back to normal...i would really like to thank everyone who encouraged me to find my passion back..that really meant a lot.. thank you guys... hopefully i should be back with my recipes soon as usual...

after a lot of thinking i tried this wholewheat homemade healthy chocolate drink. I think this can be  a perfect recipe for a comeback, after a long time. this can be used for adults as well as kids. trust me this tastes much better than store brought chocolate drinks and healthy too. I am adding no preservatives, yet can be stored for 2-3 months in an airtight container.

i am using sprouted whole wheat, but u can skip the sprouting part if you feel that sprouts are difficult for digestion. i will explain that in the step clearly..

This recipe can be made with simple ingredients made at home, no fancy ingredients needed. Just our normal wheat which we use for making chapatti should be fine..

so lets jump to the recipe directly..

INGREDIENTS:

Whole wheat                     =  4 cups

milk powder                      =  200gms

cocoa powder                    =  1 cup

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS:

First take 5 cups of wheat and wash it for 3-4 times until there are no dust particles.

soak it in clean water for 12 hours.

Soaking of 12 hours is necessary for sprouting.

After soaking of 12hours the wheat should look a little bit swollen

Now we have to sprout the wheat ,like how we do our normal green moong or any other beans.

Strain all the water from the wheat, wrap it tightly in a cotton cloth. and let it rest..

Now let it rest for good 14- 16hrs, I let it rest for 14 hours. Unlike our other beans wheat takes a little more time to sprout. In between if the cotton cloth appear dry after few hours sprinkle little water on top of it. don't remove the cloth just sprinkle water on top of the cloth.

After 14hours of sprouting, the wheat appeared like this.

Now dry them in shade for at least 4-5 days. For the first day the moisture will be there so dry it directly in sun. spread it in a big plate and dry them in sun. Then after 2 -3 days dry them in the shade until all moisture gets dried up. the sprouts will look like this.

Once all the moisture is dried, dry roast the wheat in a pan. On a low to medium flame dry roast the wheat. don't roast in a high flame as the nutrients of the sprouts will be wasted.

after roasting in low flame for good 15-20minutes the wheat will be slightly roasted ,you can see little dark brown wheat.

after almost 30 mis of roasting on medium flame I reached the desired level.

Transfer it into a big plate and let it cool for 2-3 hours in room temperature.

Now we can grind this wheat at home or outside where you grind the wheat flour( grinding mills). the difference I found is if you grind in our home mixer grinder ,we wont get a fine powder.so when you mix it in milk there will granules present and kids wont like it.

so I would suggest to grinding in the grinding mill

So after grinding I let the grinded whole wheat flour to get cool in the same pan. Let it come to room temperature before adding the ingredients. If we add the milk powder and cocoa powder when the flour is hot ,the mixture will retain the moisture and on storing it will get spoiled easily.

so once the flour is completely cooled, add the milk powder and cocoa powder. I am not adding sugar at this point as the milk powder itself contains little sugar. you can add sugar when you mix it with milk according to your preference. 

Now mix it evenly to a homogeneous mixture with a big ladle..

on mixing well it should look like this.

Now transfer the contents into a air tight container. this can be stored in room temperature for 4-5 months.

whenever you need to make this chocolate drink add 2-3 tables spoon of the health mix to Luke warm milk and mix it well. add sugar according to your preference.

Don't add this mix to hot milk. incase you need the drink hot, first mix to half a glass of lukewarm milk to the health drink mix. once the mix is thoroughly mixed and no lumps are formed add the remaining milk as hot milk.

Similarly for a cold drink , add half a glass of Luke warm milk and mix it thoroughly without any lumps. then top it will chilled milk.

Sugar can be added according to preference.

The above measurement will yield 500gms of health mix. IF you don't like chocolate flavor you can skip the cocoa powder and it will taste like a normal malt.

Similarly if you like your drink a bit more chocolaty you can increase the amount of cocoa powder  to 1.5 cups.

This is a very easy recipe can be made for children and adults at home with simple ingredients. This is healthy and homemade alternative for store bought health drinks.

Do try this recipe and let me know how it turns out. i will be back soon with another interesting recipe.

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Let me know if you have any doubts I will be happy to help..

see you all soon with another recipe, until then bye bye😊