Salted peanut & chocolate pot
This deliciously decadent chocolate dessert uses pureed chestnuts in the base giving it a wonderful creamy texture. Chestnuts are naturally sweet, a low GI food and rich in dietary fibre, making them the ideal option for uncontrolled blood sugar levels. High fibre diets help you avoid sudden blood sugar spikes by ensuring that our body absorbs the starches more slowly.
Chestnuts are also high in vitamin C which helps support our immune system by increasing the production of white blood cells and identifying and neutralising free radicals inside the body before they cause oxidative stress in healthy cells.
They also contain copper and magnesium which help support our joints and bones. Copper improves the absorption of iron, which helps bone growth and development and boosts the immune system. While Magnesium improves bone mineral density along with other health benefits. Chestnuts are therefore helpful in preventing or slowing the onset of many age-related disorders, such as osteoporosis.
Ingredients
1 bar of 85% Green & Blacks chocolate
200g Chestnut puree
1 level cup of dried dates
3 tbsp unsweetened desiccated coconut
6 tbsp Salted Crunchy Peanut Butter
6 tbsp hot water
Toasted Coconut Shavings to garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
Soak the dates in boiling water, enough to just cover the dates with water (approx. 6 tbsp)
Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl over a pan of hot water
In a blender add the chestnut puree, soaked dates (removed from water but keep the water) and coconut. Blend until smooth
Add the melted chocolate and blend
Add 6 tbsp of the date water and blend again until smooth
In 6 small glass pots spoon1 tbsp of salted peanut butter into the bottom
Then divide the chocolate mousse equally
Allow to cool and decorate with toasted coconut shavings
