Chocolate Bombe Filled with White Chocolate Risotto

Name: Chocolate Bombe Filled with White Chocolate Risotto
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 200 g real dark chocolate; ½ tsp real saffron strands; freshly grated nutmeg; 25 g butter; seeds from 10 whole green cardamom pods; 400 g risotto rice; 4 tbsp rose water (I used Lebanese or Persian); 200 g white chocolate, chopped; about 1.25 litres milk; grappa (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Real Chocolate

By Chantal Coady

Published 2003

About

This rice pudding is really a sweet risotto, but using the Middle Eastern repertoire of spices. I love this combination of flavours so much, perhaps because I was born in Teheran.

Ingredients

200 g real dark chocolate
25 g butter
seeds from 10

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Firstly, prepare the bombe shell(s). Temper the dark chocolate as described. Pour into 1.2 litre pudding basin or eight 150 ml individual moulds and tip out th