Champorado is a traditional Filipino sweet cocoa-flavoured breakfast porridge. We've created a vanilla version topped with chocolate and orange rind.
Chocolate-orange champorado
Australian Gourmet Traveller Filipino breakfast recipe for chocolate-orange champorado.
- 10 mins preparation
- 1 hr 10 mins cooking plus soaking
- Serves 4
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Ingredients
- 875 ml milk (3½ cups)
- 2 cinnamon quills
- 2 vanilla beans, split and seeds scraped
- 75 gm caster sugar (1/3 cup)
- 200 gm glutinous white rice, soaked in cold water for 10 minutes, drained and rinsed (1 cup)
- 120 gm dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), coarsely chopped
- Finely grated rind of 1 orange
Method
Main
- 1Combine milk, cinnamon, vanilla beans and seeds in a saucepan over low heat and simmer until infused (30 minutes). Add sugar, stir to dissolve (1-2 minutes), then strain through a fine sieve into a clean saucepan.
- 2Return milk to the simmer over low heat, add rice, stir occasionally until rice is tender (30-35 minutes; add more milk if mixture becomes too thick). Serve hot scattered with dark chocolate and orange rind.