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; dont ako pinapayo sinusubukan napakahirap,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, delicious.

Mga sangkap para sa 2 (serve with plenty of rice)

a splash of vegetable oil

isang sibuyas, diced

a teaspoon of dried cumin seed

2 kutsarita ng tuyo chillies (this makes a medium hot sauce, add more or less to taste)

2 cloves ng bawang, tinadtad

250cl (a third of a bottle) ng red wine

a few squares of dark cooking chocolate

isang tablespoon ng toyo

ang juice ng isang dayap

a teaspoon of tamarind paste

isang tablespoon ng agave nectar

3 tablespoons ng tomato puree

asin at paminta

isang 400g (14 ounces) tin of mixed beans

half a head of pak choi coursley chopped

fresh coriander to garnish (opsyonal)

Pamamaraan

Sweat the onion in a splash of oil with a pinch of salt until softened (up to 10 minuto)

Add the cumin seed and dried chillies

Idagdag ang bawang, stir and leave for a couple of minutes

Add the wine, agave nektar, toyo, kamatis puree, tamarind paste, a few good grinds of black pepper and lime juice

Add the beans

Stir na rin, bring to the boil and simmer and reduce for about 20 minuto, stirring occasionally until its a delicious thick sauce

Add the pak choi, stir through and simmer on a low heat for anothr 10 minuto

Serve over brown rice with some chopped coriander (opsyonal)