Chocolate sauce

Many sweet lovers cannot imagine life without chocolate. It is eaten on its own; some rub it and add it to desserts. But the most delicious and versatile way to spice up another dish with this favorite treat is chocolate sauce. This is something more than chocolate heated over a fire. Such a dish should be based on milk fat – cream or butter, so that the product turns out silky and does not freeze into a solid substance every time after cooling.

To make chocolate sauce, you need good chocolate. It is real chocolate with a high content of cocoa beans, bitter and slightly tart, that will be an excellent basis for any topping. ^[1]. For those who do not eat dark chocolate, you can make an exception and prepare a dish of milk and even white chocolate. There are a great many recipes, but still the meaning of the dish will be lost. Having melted the bitter tile in a water bath in a saucepan, water is added to the liquid chocolate and sugar (sometimes vanilla) is added. After stirring the ingredients, you need to introduce the butter and wait until it melts and merges with the bulk of the product. Everything is kneaded, and spices, vanilla, alcohol are added to the already prepared chocolate sauce. Some people like chocolate with pepper, some like cognac, someone likes berry flavor. Chefs have a recipe for every taste.

Chocolate cocoa sauce is a French classic. Here it was cooked, it seems, always. Any desserts under such gravy will become much tastier and more refined. It is prepared simply, you do not need a lot of products, the necessary ingredients are always at hand. Cupcakes, cakes, pies, profiteroles are glazed with cocoa-based chocolate sauce. Chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce is also a classic dessert. It is very easy to prepare the topping, you just need to mix cocoa powder with sugar, pour over milk and boil the mixture. ^[2]. Add the butter to it and stir until the butter melts and dissolves in the milk mixture. This is the easiest and fastest cocoa-based chocolate sauce recipe. All the components of a delicious dish are usually found in every kitchen. You can always add some spices or fruits to your taste.

With what they eat

Chocolate sauce can be used in absolutely all desserts. It is eaten with cakes, and with ice cream, and with pancakes, and even with meat. ^[3]! The Belgian recipe for pork ribs with chocolate-beer sauce has gained popularity among gourmets. The combination is rather strange, but it turns out tasty and unusual. At the same time, both chocolate and beer are felt in the taste of meat. To prepare such a sauce and marinate meat in it, you need to take melted chocolate, beer, spices to taste, vegetable oil and cream with water. Mix everything and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Then meat is put into this mixture and marinated for about 2-3 hours.

But the previous recipe is a gourmet menu. In a more classic version, chocolate toppings are often eaten with pancakes. For pancakes, the classic preparation of liquid chocolate is used: a hard black bar is crumbled into a mixture of water and cream and simmered on fire for about 20 minutes after boiling. The sauce is served to the table in a hot, unthickened form. Practically, this is a recipe for ganache – a creamy chocolate sauce from French cuisine. ^[4][5]. It is not poured over desserts as a topping, it is used as a layer for cakes or, if the consistency of ganache is very thick, it is the basis for homemade truffle candies.

Chocolate sauce is also eaten with many fruits. Fruit fondue has been in gastronomic fashion for many years ^[6][7]. Pieces of ripe dense fruits and berries are pierced on a fork and dipped in boiling chocolate. This is an incredibly tasty delicacy, moreover, it is also healthy. ^[8]. If the topping is made from dark chocolate, and apples are used as the basis of fondue, then such a dessert has very few calories. Banana-chocolate fondue in this regard is much higher in calories.

Many pastry chefs like to use the fruity chocolate flavor in their desserts, so they make a chocolate cherry sauce. Based on chocolate and fresh or frozen berries, this topping has a refreshing tart base and will appeal to those who do not like sugary-sweet flavors. Usually, fresh lemon juice is added to the cherry syrup before the chocolate is added to avoid the use of artificial acidifiers. Although the cherry itself emphasizes the taste of chocolate quite well and does not allow it to manifest itself with sugar alone. The bitter-sour taste of such a gravy will be an excellent addition to cottage cheese dishes, pancakes, cakes and muffins. You can top them with vanilla ice cream. Very unusual, in fusion style, you can feel the taste of chocolate and cherry sauce in a duet with ginger ice cream.

Ready-made chocolate sauce can be bought at the store. Today, the assortment of many brands includes toppings, chocolate-based creams, chocolate sauces. They are eaten both cold and warm, used in the preparation of cakes and as independent desserts.

Asturian chocolate sauce

Another use for liquid chocolate was invented by the Spaniards. In the province of Asturias, delicious sea fish has long been prepared in a gravy that resembles a cross between chocolate mousse and bechamel. The fish is stewed in chocolate mass and served with it.

The recipe for making a small perch in chocolate sauce is not at all complicated:

1. You can use the carcass of both fresh and frozen perch, the taste will not change from this. It is cut into several convenient portioned pieces, salted and sprinkled with spices, and then marinated in this mixture for 15 minutes.
2. Finely chopped onions are fried in melted butter until golden brown. Then, in this frying, you need to pour 1 tablespoon of flour, mix and continue to fry until a homogeneous consistency.
3. White chocolate (1 bar) must be crushed as much as possible (can be grated). Then add to the onion-flour mixture and stir until smooth.
4. Pour cinnamon and crushed cloves to taste into the resulting sauce, pour 100 grams of boiling water and 100 grams of dry white wine. Mix everything and simmer on fire for 15 minutes.
5. Put the fish into the boiling mass, simmer for another 15 minutes. After the pieces of fish, you need to turn over and add chopped champignons to the mixture, simmer everything together until the fish is ready.

The fish is served to the table along with white rice, which, like the fish, is topped with chocolate sauce. The taste of such a dish is very refined and will appeal to most connoisseurs of fish, since chocolate does not spoil its taste at all, but, on the contrary, emphasizes it very gently and delicately.

famous chocolate sauce

In cooking, there are recipes for beginners, recipes that appear on the crest of a fashion for a particular product, and recipes for classic cuisine. They become classics when practically no one needs to be told how the dish is prepared. You pronounce the name, and it becomes clear to everyone that it is incredibly tasty. Jamie Oliver’s famous chocolate sauce has long been the most replicated in recipe sections on the Internet. ^[9]. More precisely, the author prepares not only a cream based on chocolate, but also the cake itself. It turns out incredibly tasty. A feature of Jamie Oliver’s chocolate cake sauce is almond flakes and berry notes in the composition.

Another well-known option is a vegan natural chocolate-based sauce. ^[10]. It is made from almond or coconut milk and dates. The composition is completely natural. The sauce turns out to be very tasty, it can be eaten even by those groups of people for whom regular chocolate is undesirable for health reasons. According to this recipe, dates with the selected type of milk are whipped in a blender until smooth. Then this mass is boiled, and cocoa is added to it. There are no sugar or animal fats in the recipe. Based on this chocolate cream, you can make pudding, jelly and many other desserts that are healthy and are allowed for use by many diets.

Chocolate sauce is one of the most versatile dressings for sweet desserts and even meat and fish dishes. The calorie content of this product is very high, but its taste sensations are indescribable. ^[11]. Sometimes you can afford such desserts to give your taste buds a feast and give your body a boost of endorphins.

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