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Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits)

Name: Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits)
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 2 cups milk; 4 tbsp sweetened cocoa drink powder; 8 plain biscuits

Noelia @noelia_vigo

Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

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Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups milk
4 tbsp sweetened cocoa drink powder
8 plain biscuits

How to cook it

Warm the milk in a small saucepan over medium heat, or in the microwave, until hot but not boiling.
Whisk in the sweetened cocoa drink powder until fully dissolved.
Pour into mugs or bowls.
Set out the plain biscuits alongside for dunking.
Serve right away, the Spanish child's weekday breakfast in the form it most often actually takes.

Watch how to cook Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Spanish breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something cool and fresh
- Macedonia de Frutas con Yogur (Fruit Salad with Yogurt)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
Gluten	Yes	Alubias Blancas con Chorizo (White Beans with Chorizo)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 360 kcal
Protein: 9 g
Carbs: 52 g
Fat: 13 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 32 g
Sodium: 170 mg
Saturated fat: 6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Vaso de Leche con Cacao y Galletas (Cocoa Milk with Biscuits) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.