- Better to eat dark than milk chocolate? An answer by Dr. Ania [TOWIDEO]
- Chocolate in your kitchen
- What to use chocolate for?
Chocolate, although it has a lot of calories, is recommended from time to time even for people on a diet - it has a lot of magnesium, and also has a stimulating effect and improves mood.
Chocolatehas a long history. In the beginning, however, it was not a sweet snack and an addition to dishes anddesserts , but a bitter-spicy drink, drunk by the Mayans and Aztecs. They were also the first to develop a method of processingcocoa . They rubbed the fruit of this tree, fermented it, ground it and then roasted it. Later they added water, chilli, pepper, corn, honey and dried flower petals.
Today's form of chocolate appeared in Europe in the 16th century, and its popularity at courts only increased a hundred years later. Back then, chocolate was produced on an industrial scale, using sugar and shaping the sweet metal into fanciful shapes. This is due to the court chef of Louis XIII, named Pralin. In his honor, the sweet, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate candies were called pralines.
Better to eat dark than milk chocolate? An answer by Dr. Ania [TOWIDEO]
Chocolate in your kitchen
Sweet delicacy is made when cocoa liquor is mixed with cocoa butter, sweeteners and additives such as nuts, almonds, raisins and dried fruit. This process is called conching. Then the cocoa liquor is tempered, or cooled - then it becomes a hard mass, as we know it in the tablets. Often the taste of chocolate is enriched by adding vanilla or some spices, and even fruit jellies.
What to use chocolate for?
- First of all, chocolate is used in confectionery in the production of all desserts. We can make cakes, mousses or even ice cream from it. It is also an indispensable ingredient of various types of sprinkles and decorations of sweet products. But probably not many of us realize that dark chocolate in the form of a thick sauce can also go well with various types of meat: pork or poultry - says Piotr Murawski, Knorr's chef. You can use chocolate in an unusual way - as an addition to lunch or dinner, among others. for sauces and meats.