Each month we have a team chef session, led by Steve, The Hungry Guy, where the team comes together to understand the uses and capabilities of our ingredients.
Steve comes up with inventive recipes, that take each of our ingredients and create delicious dishes that tantalise our taste buds and minds.
Alternative use for Black Beans
This chocolate tortina is the perfect example of this as it includes black beans as part of the tortina and blue cheese within the mascarpone creating the perfect combination of sweet and salty.
All tortina ingredients are blended leaving a delicious texture, rich in flavour and the perfect sophisticated pudding for food service.
It’s a recipe that needs to be tried, to be understood, so why not give it a go…
Ingredients for the Black Bean Chocolate Tortina
- 500g Black Beans, Drained
- 150g Honey
- 100g Caster Sugar
- 150g Olive Oil
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 40g Cocoa Powder
- 1 Tsp Baking Powder
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 Shot Espresso or Strong Coffee
- 280g Liquid Egg (4 Large Eggs)
Ingredients For the Blue Cheese Mascarpone:
- 50g Blue Cheese
- 75g Mascarpone
For the Sour Cherry Compote:
- 50g Freeze Dried Cherries
- 100g Red Wine
- 100g Sugar
- 30g Balsamic Vinegar
Let’s get started…
- For the torte – line and grease a round 8x8cm cake tin.
- Preheat the oven to 160C
- Add all ingredients to a food processor and blend until smooth
- Pour into the cake tin and bake for 30 minutes until cooked with a nice wobble
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 15-20 minutes, then remove from the tin and leave to cool on a cake stand or plate
- For the mascarpone, mix the blue cheese and mascarpone together – add more mascarpone if the blue cheese is too strong for your taste
- For the sour cherry compote – add all ingredients into a saucepan, simmer/cook for 10-15 minutes until sticky and soft
- Taste and adjust with sugar and balsamic vinegar – it should be sweet with a slightly sour edge
- Serve the torte with a side of blue cheese mascarpone and a dollop of sour cherry compote
Black beans have to be carefully sourced, so talk to our team today on upcoming projects that we could work with you on.
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