DESSERT RECIPES
Finish off your meal with a sweet Mexican treat! Make sure that you've left room for these recipes.
Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Tamales
From 'The Road to Mexico' by Rick Stein
Ingredients
- 1 large pasilla chilli or 4 tsp ground pasilla
- 200ml double cream
- 1 tsp, or more to taste, cayenne pepper (optional)
- A pinch of salt
- 200g dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces
- 6 heaped tbsp cocoa powder, for dusting
- 1 litre corn oil, for deep frying
- Whipped or clotted cream, to serve
- 250g small strawberries or raspberries
- For the Batter
- 120g plain flour
- 1½ tbsp caster sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- 1 egg
- 100ml ice cold water
Recipe
- Heat the cream in a pan with the ground pasilla, cayenne, and the salt.
- If using a whole pasilla, toast it for about 10 seconds on each side in a dry pan, then grind to a powder.
- When the cream is hot but not boiling, take the pan off the heat and add the chocolate.
- Stir gently until the chocolate has melted. Set aside to cool and then chill until it is firm enough to shape into balls.
- Using two teaspoons, shape the chocolate into 15-18 small lozenges and drop them into a bowl of cocoa powder.
- Using your hands and working quickly as to not melt the chocolate, roll them into balls, dusting them with cocoa powder as you go.
- Put them on a tray lined with baking paper and freeze for at least 3 hours, preferably overnight.
- Ten minutes before you are ready to finish the truffles, make the batter:
- Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into a bowl.
- Make a well in the centre and add the egg.
- Whisk the egg, gradually drawing in the flour from the sides to make a paste.
- Add the water a little at a time until you have a smooth, thick batter.
- Heat the oil to 175°C in a large saucepan.
- Dip the frozen truffles into the batter, lower them into the hot oil and fry for a couple of minutes until golden. Do this in batches, setting each batch aside on kitchen paper.
- Serve immediately dusted with cocoa powder and with whipped or clotted cream, and some red berries on the side.