Richard Gomez champions local products in hot chocolate recipe

Actor and politician Richard Gomez champions local products in a new episode of his online cooking series Goma at Home.

He shared his personal recipe for hot chocolate which he will serve with some ensaymada to his wife, Leyte representative Lucy Torres.

"Simple lang, but our hot chocolate will be coming from our sikwate. This is really being sold here in stores on Ormoc City," Richard says as she shows tablea and a beautifully designed box.

"Sikwate" is the Visayan term for a chocolate beverage made from tablea.

Aside from using local products, he also prefers his hot chocolate thicker than usual.

"There are many ways of doing hot chocolate. 'Yung iba gusto nila medyo runny ng konti so they put more milk. Ako naman, I like mine really thick so I put cream," he shares.

Richard also says that this particular hot chocolate recipe tastes even better after its rests for a day.

"Most of us, 'pag nagawa na 'yung hot chocolate, we put it directly sa cup. This is nice the following day. Magre-rest muna siya, magma-mature siya and then magse-settle siya. The following day when you heat it up, mas malapot na 'yung chocolate drink mo," he explains.

Here's how to make Richard's hot chocolate.

Ingredients

• milk
• sikwate or tablea
• vanilla extract
• nutmeg
• cloves
• cinnamon
• cayenne
• brown sugar
• cream

Procedure

1. Add three cups of milk to pot in low to medium heat
2. Add 10 tablea and use whisk to melt
3. When tablea is melted, put in 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract, 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg, a dash of cloves, a teaspoon of cinnamon, and a bit of cayenne
4. Once spices have been mixed in, add 3 tablespoons of brown sugar
5. Once the mixture thickens, add a cup of cream
6. Whisk a bit more to achieve a silky texture then take off the heat

Watch Richard prepare his hot chocolate recipe here:

In a previous episode of Goma at Home, Richard prepared some fish tacos for his daughter Juliana and her friends.