Roasted Chocolate Pork Belly

Chocolate originally comes from Mesoamerica, where the Aztecs and Maya were known to use cacao beans as a means of payment or for making a drink since forever. No wonder that they cooked with it. Cacao by itself isn’t sweet. It has a deep, rich flavor that works well with roasted meat.

Many chefs in proper, old-fashioned Dutch restaurants in the country use cacao—or chocolate sauce—combined with wild game, like deer meat. But real savory cacao with roasted meat truly is an eye-opene