# Tascalate

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{{Short description|Mexican chocolate drink}}
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| name         = Tascalate
| image        = Tascalate en jícara.jpg
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| type         = Chocolate beverage
| origin       = [Mexico](/source/Mexico)
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| flavour      = 
| ingredients  = Toasted and ground [tortilla](/source/tortilla), [canela](/source/Canella), roasted [cocoa bean](/source/cocoa_bean), [annatto](/source/annatto) in pasta, [sugar](/source/sugar) or [panela](/source/panela)
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'''Tascalate''' (alternative spelling '''Tazcalate''') is a [chocolate](/source/chocolate) drink made from a mixture of roasted [maize](/source/maize), roasted [cocoa bean](/source/cocoa_bean), ground [pine nuts](/source/pine_nuts), [achiote](/source/achiote) and [sugar](/source/sugar) or [panela](/source/panela), very common in the Mexican state of [Chiapas](/source/Chiapas).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Guitiérrez|first1=Tuxla|title=El tascalate, una bebida con sabor a Chiapas|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estilos/2013/tascalate-bebida-chiapas--949740.html|website=El Universal|accessdate=2 February 2015}}</ref>

'''Tascalate''' means tortilla water (agua de tortilla)<ref>{{cite web|title=Tascalate, elíxir prehispánico orgullosamente chiapaneco | url=https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/tascalate-chiapas.html | website= mexico desconocido|accessdate=2 May 2023}}</ref> and their origins can be rooted to their noble prehispanic lineage.<ref>{{cite web|title= Tejate: Theobroma Cacao and T. bicolor in a Traditional Beverage... |url=http://es.ucsb.edu/faculty/cleveland/CV/2007b_theobroma%26tejate.pdf|website=Explorations in the History and Culture of Food and Foodways|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809074719/http://es.ucsb.edu/faculty/cleveland/CV/2007b_theobroma%26tejate.pdf |accessdate=12 May 2024|archive-date=2011-08-09 }}</ref>

Ingredients could vary, so that some variants are dominated by the taste of roasted corn, whilst other mixtures are dominated by chocolate flavor. But actually the ingredients are mostly standardized without major variations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tascalate, elíxir prehispánico orgullosamente chiapaneco | url=https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/tascalate-chiapas.html | website= mexico desconocido|accessdate=2 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Tascalate | url=http://www.mexicolindoyquerido.com.mx/mexico/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=555 | website= mexico lingo y querido | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127035059/http://www.mexicolindoyquerido.com.mx/mexico/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=555 | accessdate=12 May 2023| archive-date=2012-11-27 }}</ref>

For preparing the hot drink, the ground ingredients are mixed with milk and heated. For a cold drink, ingredients are stirred in cold water and consumed with ice cubes.

== See also ==

* [Cacao beverage](/source/Cacao_beverage)
* [List of chocolate drinks](/source/List_of_chocolate_drinks)

==References==
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{{Chocolate beverages}}
{{Mexican cuisine}}

Category:Chocolate drinks
Category:Mexican drinks
Category:Culture of Chiapas

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