Valentine’s day is a great excuse to feed a chocolate addiction and to make something special for your loved ones. These souffles combine the strong flavours of chili, nutmeg and dark chocolate into a light fluffy dessert which has three distinct flavour undertones.
Nutmeg and Chili, Chocolate Souffles
| 50 grams | dark chocolate (70% not baking chocolate) |
| 1/2 | chili pepper |
| 3 | eggs |
| 2 Tablespoons | Sugar |
| pinch | freshly grated nutmeg |
| unsalted butter | to coat ramekins |
Instructions
- Preheat fan oven to 180 degrees C (200 degrees if conventional oven.)
- Butter 2 large ramekins or 4 small ramekins.
- In a food processor pulse the dark chocolate and the chili until a course powder forms.
- Melt the chocolate mixture in a double boiler or in the microwave.
- Separate the eggs.
- Put the whites in a large bowl and the yolk of the egg back into the food processor. Whisk the egg whites until they form a soft peak (about 5 minutes using an electric egg beater)
- Add the sugar to the egg whites and whisk a further 2-3 minutes.
- Mix the melted chocolate with the egg yolks in the food processor.
- Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg white.
- Add a pinch of nutmeg to the mixture and pour into the buttered ramekins.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
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