Champurrado, strictly speaking, is atole mixed with alcohol and is intoxicating. However, it may refer to a chocolate-based atole, a warm and thick Mexican drink, based on masa harina (hominy flour), piloncillo, water or milk and occasionally containing anise seed and or vanilla bean (tasting somewhat like a thick chai tea). Early in the morning in certain parts of the city, people crowd around street-corner tamale carts as non-alchoholic champurrado is served in styrofoam cups as part of an on-the-go breakfast. An instant mix for champurrado is available in Mexican grocery stores. Chocolate most commonly comes in dark, milk, and white varieties, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration. ... Traditional cornstarch-based Mexican hot drink. ... Hominy or nixtamal is dried, treated maize (corn) kernels. ... Look up flour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Panela (chancaca, piloncillo, panocha, rapadura, jaggery, gur) is an unbleached and unrefined sweetener made from sugarcane. ... Impact of a drop of water. ... A glass of cows milk A goat kid feeding on its mothers milk Milk is the nutrient fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals (including monotremes). ... Pimpinella species, but the name anise is frequently applied to Fennel. ... For other uses, see vanilla (disambiguation). ... Chai (written चाय in Hindi) is an Indian term for tea from India. ...

Recipe

• Champurrado Made with Masa and flavored with Mexican chocolate and Anise