The sauce can make or break your dish. Agree? After all, it adds an extra punch of flavour to our taste buds. Before you think too much, we are not here to share a sauce recipe. We have come across a video of a nutritional advisor Maria Dillon (@mrsdillonskitchen) adding dark chocolate to regular tomato sauce. As per Maria, dark chocolate helps in bringing out its “richness and flavour.” Maria has shared a video on Instagram, wherein she can be actually seen adding two chocolate cubes to her boiling tomato sauce. The video shows what looks like perfectly cooked meatballs in the tomato gravy. Then, Maria adds two cubes of dark chocolate and mixes the dish properly, turning a bright red gravy into brown.
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The text attached to the clip reads, “Doing this a lot lately…” Sharing the clip she wrote, “Adding dark chocolate to Tomatoey sauces is so so good. Really adds richness and flavour.” The clip has more than 6 million views.
Dillon’s hack for the tomato sauce left the Internet divided. While many supported her secret ingredient in the comments section, a few asked what is the need to do it. A comment read, “I don’t know how I feel about this.”
A user asked, “Why are people freaking out? Chocolate is used in many soup-like dishes/sauces, are you all new to the Earth?”
Listing down the benefits of dark chocolate, a person said, “100 % Dark chocolate is very good for you in moderation. Two squares every day will do more good than harm.”
Defending Maria’s recipe, another added that in Italian cities people add dark cocoa to the dishes. “In Sicily, Palermo we put dark cocoa in the caponata, which is far too hard to explain but it is delish!”
“My dad was told to add either dark chocolate or cocoa powder to his tomato sauce by an older Italian woman. She said it brings out the richness and warmth in the flavours and also slightly cuts the acidity from the tomatoes- it’s a trick that a lot of people use and it’s common in a lot of dishes. Don’t knock it till you try it! It’s really good!” said a user.
Another commented, “Chocolate is actually used as a spice in many curry dishes. Make everything cream.”
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Do you add chocolate to any recipe or have you tried any dish that was prepared using chocolate?
