Holy Chocamole ... The Blog

This recipe I have been looking at for a couple of years now, never quite tempted enough or brave enough to really give it a crack.

That all changed yesterday when I finally worked up the courage to not only make it but vlog about it too!!!

Can I just say I couldn't even journal about yesterday. This stuff is dangerous and is certainly NOT fit for children even if they are 24 !!! it must be kept for those 40ish and over... preferably female .. and preferably me !!! In all seriousness though I highly recommend this recipe I also highly recommend you halving the serves. If this dessert was any richer it would make the 1% look like sewer rats !!! Serious richness of flavour going on, amazing texture, made better by almost fully melted chocolate so the odd bite was in there still.

I have to say I think this is the biggest winner ever !!! This is MY take on the recipe, everyone has a similar one and that is ok. The video is below. Please excuse my teeny tiny kitchen and inability to find the right angles ... other than being teeny tiny the ceiling is only 6 foot 4 inches tall so it is making things challenging but no less fun !!!

HOLY CHOCAMOLE 

4 Avocados

100g (ish) Melted Dark Chocolate

1/2 cup Carob Powder

1/2 cup Agave Syrup

Halve and de-stone your avocados. 

Place all ingredients in a food processor and blitz for a good 5 minutes. 

Pop into pots for serving

This recipe will either serve 4 very greedy people or 8 people reasonably without leaving them feeling ill (which is what you want) 

Here is how I did it !!! 

Now go and make it !!! 

The Skinny on Agave.

 Agave syrup or rather Agave Nectar is becoming more and more popular as a substitute for sugar. I wanted to know more about it so I did what every normal human being does and Googled it. 

The Blue Agave plant comes from Southern Mexico and has to grow at least 7-10 YEARS before it can be harvested and you thought Avocados were slow at 5 years !!! They are big spiky succulents very similar to cactus or Yuccas. Yeah not to be messed with 4 foot spikes can give you a nasty nip!!!

The Aztecs loved this plant and saw it as a gift from the gods... quite sensible really as it is amazing and EVERYONE is starting to use it now as a sugar substitute including Rawists as due to the low processing temperature it is classified as a raw food !!! 

Your friendly spiky Blue Agave plant 

Now the bit we are interested in for Nectar or syrup making is the Pina ... it's the bit that is in the middle of all of those loverly long spikes and is half buried underground as well. 

The Pina looks like this

Yes they are harvested by hand ... so start complaining about the price these guys don't earn a fifth of what's on that bottle !!! 

Have a chat to the poor donkey too who I can absolutely guarantee is paid in room and board !!! 

Agave Syrup is a bit like honey, it is less sweet though than honey and I have to admit I am quite grateful for that. 

For those of you who are a bit canny and might have put 2 and 2 together .. yes Agave is also the plant responsible for this .... yes you guessed it Tequila!!! 

its no wonder really when you have loverly fellas like this... lugging those things to the trucks by hand!!! 

the average Pina can weigh anywhere between 50 - 150lbs !!! that is a whole person !!!! or a pregnant skinny person !!! that's 2 whole people !!! (yeap my mind is still going off on a tangent !!!) 

Not content with being a substitute for sugar and the worlds most sung about adult beverage the humble Agave is also a medicine!!! Yes you read that right the Aztecs and locals have been using is as a skin balm to help itchy skin or mixed with salt as a poultice for open wounds for centuries !!! Modern medicine has found there is a very good reason for this as it has a wonderful ability to stop pus forming !!! yeap it got icky but hey anything that stops nasty open wound infections has to be a good thing. 

So there you have it the skinny on Agave, if you wish to know more then I suggest you do as I did and check out Google or better still you local library!!!