Pinoy Recipes: Champorado (And Yet Another Rice Dish!)

By: OC Staff, August 23 2018

Source: Sean Bonus, Wikpedia

Champorado is yet another rice dish, but this time, it is a sweet chocolate rice dish (porridge, actually).

We Filipinos love our rice – obviously. And somehow, our ancestors managed to make a whole variety of rice dishes ranging from savoury (fried rice) to sweet (biko, puto, champorado to name a few).

This time, we give you the recipe of one of our Cebuano rainy-day, cold-weather favorites… champorado.

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Ingredients

1 cup glutinous sweet rice
2 cups light coconut milk
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup thick coconut milk

Instructions

Using medium heat, bring to boil the rice and light coconut milk in a saucepan for about 10 minutes. Stir constantly to prevent the rice from sticking into the pan.
Add in the cocoa powder, sugar, and salt into the rice
Reduce the heat to low and let the mixture simmer, while stirring ocassionally for 10 minutes.
Add the thick coconut milk to the mixture and stir until fully mixed in. Serve piping hot.

Enjoy!