New Vegan Cookbook - Cocoa

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Dutch process cocoa has a more mellow flavor because it has had an

alkali added to neutralize the acid so it will not react with baking

soda. It is used a lot in baking for that reason.

 

Glad you enjoyed your chili.

 

Jo-Ann

 

 

 

, " christie_0131 "

<christie0131 wrote:

>

> I recently bought Eat, Drink and Be Vegan by Dreena Burton and

> wondered if anyone else had this book and what you thought of it. I

> has sopme really great looking recipes but quite a lot of the

> ingredients are not (readily?)available to me over here.

>

> I am having such fun with this book. I made the hottest smokiest

> chilli adapted from it last night. The recipe called for dutch

> processed cocoa, I don't know what this is and only had ordinary

> organic cocoa powder which I think is stronger and it made the

chilli

> deep brown and very rich. Then it called for mild chilli powder and

I

> only had strong, but omitted to cut down the measurement. Then it

> called for chipotle tabasco which I don't have but I do have

chopped

> dried chipotle chiles and of course I overdid the amount that I

> added. I left it to cook in my slow cooker while I went to work

which

> really gave the flavours plenty of time to mingle, interact and

> intensify still further. The resulting chilli was so hot and rich

and

> smoky that it hurt when I tasted it. The recipe then called for a

can

> of coconut milk and of course I didn't have any of that either, so

I

> added a carton of coconut cream, which made the whole thing even

> richer. By this time the slowcooker was full to the brim and the

> chilli still too much for me so I spooned half of it out into a

> saucepan, added loads more water. Then the mixture was too thin and

> rather soupy so I had to add some bulgur wheat to bring it to the

> right consistency and cooked it some more. The resulting chilli was

> quite extraordinary and I now have enough of it to feed the entire

> street. I do hope it freezes well. I suspect that the moral of this

> story is that you should only start a recipe if you have all of the

> ingredients, but what fun would that be?

> Christie ;-)

>