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While chocolate is commonly understood as only being appropriate for sweet applications, chocolate is used as an ingredient in several popular recipes and by contemporary chefs. The most popular savory use of chocolate in savory cooking is in mole. Chocolate is generally used in small quantities to
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Having properly plucked and cleaned your wigeon, empty and clean it; blanch it on the fire and then pot it, seasoning it with salt, pepper, bay, and a bundle of herbs. Make a little chocolate to toss it in. Meanwhile, prepare a
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with the liver, mushrooms, morels, meadow mushrooms, truffles, a quarter of a pound of chestnuts, and your wigeon now cooked and laid out on a platter. Serve your ragout over the wigeon, and garnish it as you like.
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and creaminess to sauces, counterbalance saltiness, and bring "richness" to vegetarian dishes. Contemporary chefs using dark chocolate often pair them with savory winter vegetables, such as
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being commonly attributed to the Aztecs. In a popular legend, the use of chocolate in mole is attributed to Mexican nuns in late 17th century
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has been used as an ingredient in savory cooking for over a thousand years. In Europe, chocolate has been used extensively in
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as of the mid-17th century. The first appearance in a French recipe is 1691, where it was used in a dish of
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Pictures on a bowl from 400 CE containing a reference to chocolate, refers either to a
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and wild mushrooms. Food scientists in the past have advocated pairing chocolate with
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to thicken and add flavor. In Italy and Spain, chocolate is sometimes added to
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Contemporary chefs have used chocolate in various forms, including
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Contemporary chefs often pair dark chocolate with winter vegetables
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Chocolate was considered a pleasant and unremarkable addition to
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Spence, Charles; Wang, Qian Janice; Youssef, Jozef (2017).
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Despite being more commonly used in sweet applications,
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did not use chocolate to flavor cooking; historians
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Index


Mole
chocolate
Italian cuisine
lasagna
liver
mole
History of chocolate
ragout
François Massialot
Mayan
tamale
Aztecs
Michael
Sophie Coe
coq au vin
sacramental wine
mole poblano
Puebla
European cuisine
wigeon
European cooking
Northern Italy
pappardelle
liver
polenta
Macerata
lasagna
anchovies
walnuts

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