Champorado
| Champorado | |
|---|---|
| Breakfast | |
 | |
| Place of origin: | |
| Philippines | |
| Serving temperature: | |
| Hot or cold | |
| Main ingredient(s): | |
| Glutinous rice, cocoa powder, milk, sugar | |
| Recipes at Wikibooks: | |
 Champorado | |
| Media at Wikimedia Commons: | |
 Champorado |
Champorado or tsampurado[1] (Spanish: champurrado)[1] is a sweet chocolate rice porridge in Philippine cuisine. It is traditionally made by boiling sticky rice with cocoa powder, giving it a distinctly brown color and usually with milk and sugar to make it taste sweeter. However, dry champorado mixes are prepared by just adding boiling water. It can be served hot or cold and with milk and sugar to taste. It is served usually at breakfast and sometimes together with salty dried fish locally known as tuyo.
The pudding becomes very thick and the lighter milk helps to "loosen" it. It's almost like eating "chocolate oatmeal". It can be eaten as a snack or dessert as well.
Its history can be traced back from Mexico. During the galleon trade between Mexico and the Philippines, there were Mexican traders who stayed in the Philippines and brought with them the knowledge of making champorado (this is also the reason why there is Tuba in Mexico). Through the years, the recipe changed; Filipinos eventually found ways to make the Mexican champurrado a Philippine champorado by adding rice.
See also
- Champon, a Japanese dish originating from the same word "champur"
- Chanpurū, an Okinawan dish originating from the same word "champur"
- Nasi Campur, a Malay-Indonesian dish of mixed foods over rice.
- List of porridges
-
Food portal
References
| |||||||||||
