Crushed cocoa beans, 100 g

Characteristics

Cocoa beans have a typical bitter taste that you will quickly like. They taste good on their own or incorporated into desserts, drinks and exotic main dishes. You can also make quality homemade chocolate with the help of cocoa beans. In addition, as they are not roasted, they retain their natural substances better.

Cacao beans are actually 100% cocoa, so you'll never use as much as regular cocoa. They can also be eaten alone to stave off hunger. It fills you up quickly and you can banish your sweet tooth. At first taste, their taste is strongly bitter, which may surprise you. However, you will easily fall in love with this unusual taste in the next few bites.

Legislative classification: Cocoa beans

Use

For sprinkling - sprinkle beans on ready-made pastries, fruit salads or add them to your favorite porridge or yogurt

Homemade chocolate - to make homemade chocolate you will only need beans and cane sugar, roast the cocoa beans in a pan for 5 minutes, while they are still warm, put them in a blender and blend, add sugar and blend until the cocoa butter is released and the mixture is smooth, on a baking sheet pour the chocolate into the desired shape, at the end you can sprinkle the still warm chocolate with nuts or dried fruit

Drinks - beans can also be added to smoothies when blending

Sauces – you can use mixed and briefly roasted cocoa beans to make a salty sauce, its base consists of fried onions, garlic, thyme and chili, then add chocolate and finally stock, boil everything for 7 minutes and season with salt and pepper

Mexican cuisine - in Mexican recipes, bean chocolate is also widely used in savory dishes, it is usually added in small doses together with spices

Desserts - you can use blended beans in your classic sweet recipes instead of regular cocoa Cocoa beans are the dried fruit of the cocoa tree, which comes from the tropical region of South America, where it was cultivated as early as the 5th century. Thanks to the Spanish, cocoa beans reached Europe and became a popular raw material already in the 16th century.

Ingredients

• Crushed cocoa beans*
• May contain traces of gluten, nuts, peanuts, soy and sesame.
• *product of controlled organic farming

Storage

• Store at a temperature of up to 25 °C and a relative humidity of up to 70%.

Nutritional information per 100 g

• Energy value 2,444 kJ / 585 kcal
• Fats: 52.0 g, of which saturated fatty acids: 30.2 g
• Carbohydrates: 6.0 g, of which sugars: 3.0 g
• Fiber: 23.0 g
• Protein: 12.4 g
• Salt: 0.15 g