Chocolate in sauce

[maxon8]

Can anyone give me an example of how and when I can use plain chocolate to enrich a main course sauce. As I understand this is done in France with some meat based recipes.
maxon8

[allie]

I don't make a lot of sauces but I have used cocoa in my barbecue sauce in the past. Les makes an awesome chili and uses cocoa in it as well. I can't really describe what it adds but in his chili, you can definitely tell if he forgets to put it in. My sauce is one of those whatever is on hand kind of sauces so it's different every single time I make it.

[DC Sunshine]

Try this.... Consuming Passions - Recipe

[redalert]

Chocolate is quite often used to flavour a sauce used in venison dishes over here. They complement each other wonderfully!

It needs to be good 70%, or more cocoa chocolate.

After cooking venison steaks to doneness deglace the pan with veal (beef if you can't get veal) stock, and when it's reduced to a syrupy consistensy add some of the choccy cubes and stir them in.

Pour over the venison and enjoy!

Iain

[cookie jim]

Hi allie, I suggest looking up mole recipes found in Mexican recipie sites,chocolate is used in a lot of their recipies...good cookin...cookie...by the way the choc.sauce for venison sounds yummy,ah but to be in England

[allie]

Thanks for the suggestion. We love Mexican food so I'll check it out!