Desserts recipes: Saint Valentine's Chocolate and Chestnut Pots

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Friday, February 1, 2008

Saint Valentine's Chocolate and Chestnut Pots

Ingredients:

1 cup unsweetened chestnut purée
1/4 cup Madeira
9 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
2 eggs, separated
2 tbsp butter, diced
Crème Fraîche to decorate

Preparing:

Melt the chocolate with Madeira inwater bath.
Remove from heat and add the butter, stiring until melted and smooth.
Beat the egg yolks quickly into the mixture, then beat in the chestnut purée.

Whisk
the egg whites until stiff.
Stir about 1 tbsp of the whites into the chestnut mixture, and then fold in the rest.

Spoon
the mixture into small ramekins and chill until set.
Decorate with crème fraîche.

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