Description
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; I dont kupendekeza kujaribu ngumu sana,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, ladha.
Viungo
Splash ya mafuta ya mboga
kitunguu, diced
kijiko cha jira kavu
2 vijiko ya chillies kavu (this makes a medium hot sauce, add more or less to taste)
2 karafuu ya vitunguu, kusaga
250cl (a third of a bottle) of red wine
a few squares of dark cooking chocolate
kijiko ya mchuzi wa soya
juisi ya chokaa
a teaspoon of tamarind paste
kijiko ya agave nectar
3 tablespoons ya nyanya puree
chumvi na pilipili
a 400g (14 ounces) tin of mixed beans
half a head of pak choi coursley chopped
fresh coriander to garnish (hiari)
Instructions
Sweat the onion in a splash of oil with a pinch of salt until softened (up to 10 dakika)
Add the cumin seed and dried chillies
Kuongeza vitunguu, stir and leave for a couple of minutes
Add the wine, agave nectar, soy sauce, nyanya puree, 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 dakika, stirring occasionally until its a delicious thick sauce
Add the pak choi, stir through and simmer on a low heat for anothr 10 dakika
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 40
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Boil and Sautee
- Cuisine: Mexican