Chocolate Tapioca Pudding

Prep time: 10 min

Cook time: 5 min

Servings: 6

Yield: 6 servings

Description

Make a richly flavored chocolate tapioca pudding by mixing milk and instant tapioca with chopped dark chocolate. You can make it more chocolately by using chocolate milk, if you like. It's great warm or cold.

Ingredients

• 3 cups milk

• 3 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca

• 1 egg, beaten

• 1/2 cup white sugar

• 1/2 cup chopped chocolate

• 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1 Milk the milk, tapioca, egg, and sugar together in a saucepan until the sugar has dissolved; allow to stand for 5 minutes.

2 Whisk in the chocolate and cocoa powder.

3 Place over medium heat, bring to a boil, whisking constantly, and let boil for 2 minutes.

4 Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla extract. Allow to cool for 20 minutes. Serve warm or chilled.