Semi-Raw Vegan Chocolate Tart with Wine Poached Pears
This semi-raw vegan chocolate tart has an amazing red wine flavor and rich chocolate taste, plus it's ready in just half an hour!
Ingredients
- Crust:
- ¾ cup almonds hydrated 30 minutes
- ½ cup dates hydrated 15 minutes
- 1 Tbsp honey – or any other sweetener you want
- Chocolate cream:
- 4 ripe bananas sliced
- 2 Tbsps carob powder
- 2 Tbsps honey or any other sweetener you want
- 100 g dark chocolate 85% cocoa
- 2 Tbsps psyllium husks
- Pears:
- 5-6 small pears
- 500 ml red sweet wine
- 2 Tbsps brown sugar or molasses
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp rum extract
- 1 Tbsps cardamom seeds
- 1 cinnamon stick
Instructions
- For the pears:
- Peel the pears. Add all ingredients in the list above [Pears section] in a medium pot. Poach the pears for 25 minutes.
- For the crust:
- Add almonds, dates ad honey in your food processor. Blend well until they form a sticky paste.
- Cover your tart form with a plastic wrap. This way you’ll remove the tart from the form a lot easier! Add the paste and spread it evenly in the tart form.
- For the chocolate cream:
- Add bananas, honey, psyllium husks and carob powder in the blender. Blend until smooth.
- Melt the chocolate. I used the steamer.
- Add melted chocolate in the blender over the banana cream and blend well.
- Pour the cream in the tart form.
- Add wine poached pears and garnish with cinnamon and chocolate flakes.