Country Life Cocoa beans unroasted crushed BIO, 100 Grams, Flavourless

Product description Country Life Cocoa beans unroasted crushed BIO

Cocoa beans have a typical bitter taste that you will quickly grow to love. They taste good on their own and incorporated into desserts, drinks and exotic main dishes. You can also make high-quality homemade chocolate with cocoa beans. Moreover, as unroasted cocoa beans retain their natural substances better.

Uses:

• for sprinkling - sprinkle the beans on ready-made desserts, fruit salads or add them to your favourite porridge or yoghurt
• Homemade chocolate - to prepare homemade chocolate you will only need beans and cane sugar, roast the cocoa beans in a pan for 5 minutes, while still warm put them in a blender and blend, add sugar and blend until the cocoa butter is released and the mixture is smooth, pour the chocolate on a baking tray in the desired shape, finally you can sprinkle the warm chocolate with nuts or dried fruit
• drinks - the beans can also be added to smoothies when blending
• sauces - the blended and briefly roasted cocoa beans can be used to make a savoury sauce, the base is made up of fried onion, garlic, thyme and chilli, then add the chocolate and finally the stock, boil for 7 minutes and season with salt and pepper
• Mexican cuisine - in Mexican recipes, chocolate from beans is also widely used in savoury dishes, 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 cacao tree, which originates from the tropical region of South America, where it was cultivated as early as the 5th century. Thanks to the Spanish, cocoa beans were introduced to Europe and became a popular ingredient in the 16th century.

Cocoa beans are actually 100% cocoa, so you'll never consume as much of them as you would of regular cocoa. They can also be eaten on their own to stave off hunger. They fill you up quickly and you can chase away sweet cravings. When you first taste them, they taste strongly bitter, which may surprise you. However, with subsequent bites, you'll find this unusual taste easy to like.

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