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chocolate dumplings in mango sauce
How to make chocolate dumplings in mango sauce: exotic recipe
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Ingredients
• 200 g (1 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
• 70 g (2.5 oz) dark chocolate
🔸 For the mango sauce:
🔪 Instructions
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Ready to sneak this onto your dessert menu under a name like "Tropics Lost in Vienna"?
Ingredients
- 🔸 For the dough:
• 200 g (1 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
- • 1 egg
- • 3 tbsp water
- • Pinch of salt
- 🔸 For the filling:
• 70 g (2.5 oz) dark chocolate
- • 3 tbsp heavy cream
- • 1 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
- • 1 tsp sugar (if chocolate is too bitter)
🔸 For the mango sauce:
- • 1 ripe mango (or 150 g mango puree)
- • 100 ml (just under ½ cup) heavy cream
- • 1-2 tsp honey
- • 1 tsp lime or lemon juice
- • Pinch of salt
🔪 Instructions
- ➡Make the dough: Mix flour, egg, water, and salt into a soft dough. Knead, wrap, and rest for 30 minutes.
- ➡Prepare the filling: Melt chocolate with cream over a water bath. Stir in sugar and cocoa if using. Let cool until thick.
- ➡Shape the dumplings: Roll out dough, cut into circles, fill with chocolate, and seal. Freeze for 10 minutes to firm up.
- ➡Cook: Boil in lightly salted water. Once they float, cook 2–3 minutes more. Lift out gently.
- ➡Make the mango sauce: Blend mango, then stir in cream, honey, citrus juice, and salt. Warm gently without boiling.
- ➡Serve: Arrange dumplings, spoon over sauce, and garnish with mint or lime zest if desired.
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Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - flowers
Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - flowers
Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - flowers
Musk Bush - Iboza riparia, Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush - leaves
🚀 Another Musk from Africa that came before Elon: the true Healer from Zulu.
🚀 Growing tips
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- 🚀 This African Musk has less hype and more goodness: it won't buy Twitter but it might cure your cough!
- 🚀 Musk Bush (Iboza riparia) - also called Misty Plume Bush, or Ginger Bush, is a highly aromatic shrub with a long tradition of healing use in African herbal medicine. Its soft, velvety leaves release a sweet ginger-like scent when crushed and are packed with medicinal value.
- 🚀 Medicinal uses
- 💚 Respiratory relief: The Zulu people traditionally use Iboza as an inhalant for coughs, chest congestion, and even malaria. Crushed leaves are often inhaled or made into a steam bath to clear the lungs.
- 💚 Natural relaxant: Often used alongside Psychotria viridis for calming effects, this plant is prized for its gentle sedative properties.
- 💚 Headache and digestive aid: Inhaling the fragrance can ease headaches, and teas or infusions are used to soothe stomach aches.
- 🚀 Plant facts
- 💚 Growth: Fast-growing (up to 3 ft/year), up to 6 ft tall, with a full, bushy habit.
- 💚 Leaves: Bright green, heart-shaped, covered in sticky aromatic hairs.
- 💚 Flowers: showy mist-like white to lilac spikes hang in beautiful, fragrant dense clusters.
- 💚 Fragrance: Leaves are scented like ginger with a musky twist - especially fragrant after light pruning.
🚀 Growing tips
- 💚 Best in full sun or partial shade
- 💚 Likes rich, well-drained soil and regular summer water, drought tolerant once established.
- 💚 Prune hard after flowering to keep it compact and boost future blooms.
- 💚 Grows well in pots in cold climates.
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