Filipino
Champorado (Chocolate Rice Porridge)
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Champorado (Chocolate Rice Porridge) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Combine the rice and water in a pot and bring to a boil.
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Reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the rice is soft and the porridge thickens, about 20 minutes.
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Stir in the cocoa powder, sugar, and salt, and simmer 5 minutes more.
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Ladle into bowls and swirl in the evaporated milk.
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Serve warm, traditionally alongside a piece of fried tuyo for the sweet-and-salty pairing.
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Serve it with
A Filipino breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Champorado (Chocolate Rice Porridge), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Champorado (Chocolate Rice Porridge) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 390 kcal
- Protein
- 8 g
- Carbs
- 81 g
- Fat
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 19 g
- Sodium
- 70 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Champorado (Chocolate Rice Porridge) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. It is at its best in the monsoon, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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