Cocoa - The secret ingredient
Posted on | September 17, 2008 |
It is widely seen that cocoa is generally an ingredient of sweet dishes, cakes, and biscuits. However a few years ago I found out that cocoa can be used as an ingredient in chill-con-carne.
Adding a level teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa to your standard chilli-con-carne recipe will give it added depth, flavour, and colour. Sometimes it really is the ingredient that you need when something is missing in a rich, spicy dish such as chilli-con-carne.
Cocoa works well in chilli-con-carne as the rest of the ingredients are quite strong (cumin, paprika, chilli etc), and the cocoa’s flavour will ‘move to the back’ the flavour base and produce a nice, warm, savoury boost to the depth of the dish.
The same can be achieved with 70% cocoa chocolate. Try it sometime, you will be impressed!
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September 18th, 2008 @ 1:19 am
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