In a sauce pan, add cocoa powder, sugar, salt and mix well. Add ¼ cup of water and mix well until completely dissolved. Add ½ cup of milk and mix well again. Now put this sauce pan on low heat and stir continuously.
After 3-4 mins, it becomes very thick. Add vanilla essence and continue to stir well making sure the bottom doesn’t burn. As the mixture becomes quite thick, add 1 cup of milk and whisk well. Remove from heat.
Pour this into two serving glasses, top them off with whipped cream/vanilla ice cream. Sprinkle choco chips on top.
Serve hot immediately.
Notes
Adjust the quantity of sugar as per preference. I wanted the mild bitterness of chocolate come up, so added only 3 teaspoon of sugar.
Adding a pinch of salt helps bring out the sweetness.
Keep cooking the mixture on low flame by continuously stirring. Make sure it doesn’t burn.
Use good quality cocoa powder.
Additionally, ½ teaspoon instant coffee powder or 2 teaspoon of strawberry/cranberry syrup can be added.