Tags: Food Establishments, Food Preparation
By Marjorie Gorospe
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA— If you’re a bit bored with your usual pizza or simply eating plain chocolate for dessert, you might want to add a little twist by trying out chocolate pizza.
Heavenly Chocolates, a small restaurant in Quezon City that has been attracting chocolate lovers, is getting raves among foodies for their Arriba Chocolate Pizza.
“Arriba”, by the way, is a Spanish word which means “up there” in which case, referring to where cacao is harvested – from the Andean slopes of Ecuador.
According to Heavenly Chocolates owner Brian Erfe, Arriba chocolate pizza contains no less than the equivalent of an 80 gram bar of 65 percent cacao dark chocolate.
As a food establishment catering to chocoholics, Brian says they always look for ways to give a different twist to enjoying chocolate.
Aside from the bittersweet taste of chocolate, the thin crust pizza is also flavored by savory shallot bits, toasted almonds and bacon.
Resident chef Roderick Hinampas gladly shares the following recipe.
Ingredients:
thin-crust pizza dough
toasted almonds
80g melted origin Ecuador chocolate
fried shallots
bacon bits (pre-cooked)
1. Preheat/Melt the chocolate first for two minutes.
2. Slice the pizza depending on desired number of slices.
3. In an oven or pan, toast the pizza for five minutes or until it turns to golden brown
4. Pour the melted chocolate on the pizza dough.
5. Add the toasted almonds, fried shallots and bacon bits.
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Try http://www.pakyaw.com.ph – they are an online group buying website. Offering 50% in 12pc chocolates from Wicked Indulgence!
Nice…. but just wondering whether the restaurant or similar food outlet ever interested to use local ingredients of pili nuts instead almonds, local cacao chocolate instead of imported Ecuadorian cacao and the like. It will be interesting having a all-local produce to make a chocolatey-pizza