Description
Use:
- Sprinkling - you can use the cocoa beans to sprinkle over prepared desserts, fruit salads or add them into your favourite porridge or yoghurt
- Home-made chocolate - for the preparation of home-made chocolate you will need beans and cane sugar only, roast the cocoa beans for 5 minutes on a pan, add the hot cocoa beans into a blender and blend, add sugar and blend until cocoa butter is released and the mixture has a smooth consistency, pour the chocolate on a baking tin in the desired form, at the end, you can sprinkle the hot chocolate with nuts or dried fruit
- Beverages - the cocoa beans can be added into smoothie before blending
- Sauces - you can use blended and shortly roasted cocoa beans to make a salty sauce, its base consists of fried onion, garlic, thyme and chilli, then add the chocolate and broth, cook it all for 7 minutes and season with salt and pepper
- Mexican cuisine - the cocoa beans are widely used in the Mexican cuisine recipes for salty meals primarily, it is usually added in small portions along with seasoning
- Desserts - you can used blended cocoa beans in your classic sweet meals recipes instead of regular cocoa
Cocoa beans are dried cocoa tree fruit, native to the tropical region of South America, where it was grown already in the 5th century. Thanks to Spanish people, cocoa beans have spread to Europe and became a favourite foodstuff already in the 16th century.
Cocoa beans are actually 100% cocoa, so their consumption is never as high as the one of the regularly available cocoa. To appease hunger you can eat the cocoa beans as such. They will quickly saturate you and you will no longer feel the need to eat sweets. When tasting cocoa beans for the first time, their taste is bitter, which may surprise you. But you will quickly enjoy this unusual taste.
Composition
Crushed cocoa beans*. May contain traces of gluten, nuts, peanuts, soy and sesame. *product of controlled organic farmingStorage
Store at temperatures up to 25 °C and relative humidity of 70 %.
