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This recipe by vegan chef Simone Salvini could be a good way of offering a different and original dessert during the holidays. In order to give balance to this dish, he was inspired by the lessons of Ayurvedic tradition
This recipe, which doesn’t include the use of sugar, was inspired by my fascination for the East and in particular for Ayurvedic tradition, which I find particularly dear to me. In this tradition there’s the presence of six types of flavours: the word used is “rasa”, which is a very important term in Ayurveda, with many meanings, including emotions, food, vital lymph. The six “rasa” are: acid, here represented by persimmon, bitter, which in the recipe is chocolate, astringent, thanks to the green tea, sweet, brought not by the sugar but by the almond milk, spicy, given by the oil, and salty, thanks to the salt crystals. Through “rasa” it’s not only emotions and flavours that are channelled, but also balanced nutrients, as in the case of this dish.
Dark chocolate torroncini, puffed rice and green tea
INGREDIENTS for the torroncini: 110 g whole, natural almond milk * 200 g 70% dark chocolate 40 g dried prunes 20 g puffed rice finely chopped orange zest Japanese powdered green tea spicy oil salt crystals for the persimmon sauce: 1 ripe persimmon 20 g bitter orange marmalade finely chopped lemon zest lemon juice
*for the whole almond milk: put 100 g of almonds, with their skin, in the cutter’s container; blend at the highest speed for a few seconds. Gradually add one litre of water and continue to blend at the highest speed for 30 seconds. Place in the fridge in a hermetic jar. Raw almond milk must be used within 3 days.
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