This delicious yet easy to make chocolate treat was introduced to us by our Portuguese colonizers. Chocolate salami is not a meat product. Its title ‘salami’ stems from its physical resemblance. Like salami, chocolate salami is shaped into a long cylinder and is sliced across into discs before serving. The dark chocolate slices are peppered with bright bits of biscuits and nuts like the white flecks of fat in salami.
Ingredients
250 grams dark cooking chocolate (chopped)
250 grams Marie biscuits/ digestive biscuits
1/2 cup walnuts (chopped and toasted)
1/2 cup almonds (sliced and toasted)
1 tablespoon grated orange zest
50 grams butter
1/2 teaspoon instant coffee powder dissolved in a tablespoon of water
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Icing sugar for dusting
Melt the chocolate and butter together in the microwave oven or double boiler . Crush the biscuits roughly.Mix together all the ingredients. Shape in the form of a sausage, wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate till firm. This 'salami' can be stored in the refrigerator till ready to serve. To serve, unwrap the salami, dust with some icing sugar, slice and serve with a glass of red wine or a cup of coffee.
All
you need is love, but a little chocolate, now and then doesn’t hurt-Charles M.
Shultz
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