AKA chocolate beans. They do it in Mexico! Well they put in on turkeys in Mexico. I contrived this delicious, unusual dish in Australia after impulse buying a bottle of red wine ‘with a hint of natural chocolate’ (Chocolate Cellar from the McLaren Vale). A couple of sips in and it was hard to prevail. We abandoned it for a nice bottle from the Barossa Valley with only an almost imperceptible (and no added hint of) chocolate flavour.
Determined not to waste the unfortunate purchase, I turned it into a delicious mole sauce with beans in place of the traditional dead birds, it went down a storm. You may not be able to get hold of chocolate wine; Je ne recommande pas d'essayer très dur,en. Add a few squares of dark cooking chocolate to taste. Serve with plenty of plain brown rice, no more strong flavours needed. Very experimental, serendipitous, délicieux.
Ingrédients pour 2 (serve with plenty of rice)
un filet d'huile végétale
un oignon, dés
une cuillère à café de graines de cumin séché
2 teaspoons of dried chillies (this makes a medium hot sauce, add more or less to taste)
2 gousses d'ail, haché
250cl (a third of a bottle) de vin rouge
a few squares of dark cooking chocolate
une cuillère à soupe de sauce de soja
le jus d'un citron vert
a teaspoon of tamarind paste
une cuillère à soupe de sirop d'agave
3 à soupe de purée de tomates
sel et poivre
un 400g (14 oz) tin of mixed beans
half a head of pak choi coursley chopped
fresh coriander to garnish (en option)
Méthode
Sweat the onion in a splash of oil with a pinch of salt until softened (up to 10 procès-verbal)
Add the cumin seed and dried chillies
Ajouter l'ail, stir and leave for a couple of minutes
Add the wine, nectar d'agave, soy sauce, purée de tomates, tamarind paste, a few good grinds of black pepper and lime juice
Add the beans
Stir well, bring to the boil and simmer and reduce for about 20 procès-verbal, stirring occasionally until its a delicious thick sauce
Add the pak choi, stir through and simmer on a low heat for anothr 10 procès-verbal
Serve over brown rice with some chopped coriander (en option)
