Chocolate Pots

[Nigel Day]

Name of Recipe: Chocolate Pots
Number of People:
Ingredients:
320g plain chocolate, broken in pieces
• 50g butter
• 200g egg whites (from about 6 or 7 large eggs)
• 70g sugar
• 20g rice flour


Preparation:

1. Melt the chocolate and the butter 4 minutes/50˚C/Speed 2,
stopping once to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
2. Add the sugar and 50g of the egg whites.
Mix 30 seconds/Speed 2.
3. Turn up to Speed 3 and slowly add the
remaining egg whites through the hole in
the TM lid; mix until combined.
4. Add the rice flour. Mix 30 seconds/
Speed 3. Pour into buttered and sugared
oven-proof moulds or ramekins until two
thirds full.
5. Cook 6 to 9 minutes at 180˚C with
fan/400˚F/gas mark 6 until the outside starts
to set but the centre is still a little runny. Aga ovens: bake 6-7
minutes on the rack set on the floor of the Roasting Oven.



Tips/Hints:

This dessert happens to be gluten free.

[teagg]

I tried this tonight but I'd found the recipe in the 'My Thermomix' online magazine from www.ukthermomix.com (issue 2, May 2008).

I didn't have plain chocolate so substituted milk choc with hazelnuts (increased speed at the start for about ten seconds to chop the nuts more finely). I only made half the recipe (only three eggs to hand), and distributed that across four ramekins.

My view was that it was extremely chocolate-y - almost too much so, and was very sweet (probably due to the type of chocolate I used).

So we will have this as a once in a blue moon or an incredibly special occasion dessert!!!

Gillian