User:דידי/Chocolate Spread

Following is a Chocolate spread recipe that I make often and all my family (including wife and kids) like, enough so that it's almost the only chocolate spread we eat (and very seldom purchased ones).

= Ingredients: = - 100 gram Sugar

- 20 gram Cocoa powder

- 2 gram Salt

- 200 gram Milk

- 100 gram Dark Chocolate, 60% cocoa

- 250 gram Raw Tahini, or 200 gram Natural Peanut Butter, or a mix

= Instructions: = - Put the  Sugar, Cocoa powder, and Salt in a pot and mix.

- Add part of the milk and mix, then add the rest

- Put on the stove and hit. Mix often, until the sugar dissolves into the milk.

- Add the chocolate and mix until it's liquid/dissolved

- Turn off the stove, add the Tahini/Peanut Butter and mix

- Put in some closed container, in the fridge.

- We usually keep it for up to around two weeks. I think it never spoiled.

= Notes: = - Almost all the Raw Tahini I used was good enough. A notable exception (in Israel) is the one of Achva/Achdut, which I don't like. Rami Levi's relatively new Tahini is surprisingly good, IMO, and is sold in recent years for 15NIS/KG (cheaper than Achva, which used to be the cheapest).

- All chocolates I used were good enough. There are differences, both in taste and in texture. Specifically, Elite's one was a bit softer (so the spread was softer, but still usable). I usually buy the cheaper ones, such as Chocketa, Chocolata, YAAD, etc., and they are all well. I usually buy the 60% cocoa versions, but also the 40%-50% were ok (but perhaps a bit less tasty and perhaps less healthy).

- You should obviously not treat it as a "healthy food" - we also eat Silan etc. - but as a "healthier Chocolate spread". As that, I think it's reasonably good - not too much work, costs similarly to cheaper bought spreads, and is hopefully a bit healthier.

- Most of it we actually eat not spread on bread slices (also that), but as an addition to oats porridge. This is our main breakfast for ~ 2 years now: 350 gram oats, 1 Litter milk, 0.5 litter water, boiled for 5-10 minutes, then add ~ 150-170 gram of the spread. And some fresh cut vegetables, to make it a bit healthy :-).