Chocolate Chat Bombs

Name: Chocolate Chat Bombs
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 tbsp chopped pistachios; 2 tsp icing/confectioners’ sugar, sifted; 150 g/5 oz dark/bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces; 120 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup whipping cream; 1 vanilla pod/bean, seeds only; ⅛ tsp ground cinnamon; flesh and seeds from 4 passion fruit; ½ tsp dried rose petals, plus more to garnish; 110 g/3¾ oz dark/bittersweet chocolate; 10 pani puri; 110 ml/3¾ fl oz/scant ½ cup double/heavy cream

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

I developed these for my and my friends’ children. We experimented with these a lot in Mowgli, but I have yet to put them on the menu because chocolate is not an Indian ingredient. In the heat of the East, it melts, becoming crystalline and white. I take these decisions about the menu hideously seriously. My kids hate me for it!

Ingredients

150 g/5 oz dark/bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces
10

Asia
India
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Set a small heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Put the chocolate in the bowl and stir until fully melted.
Carefully take each pani puri and coat in the melted chocolate, then set aside on baking parchment and allow to cool fully.
While the pani puri are cooling, start to make your chocolate ganache by setting a small saucepan over a me