Raw Choc Tart

[earthworm]

Anyone else see this on River Cottage? Seems a nice idea, but it's full of weird sounding hipster ingredients from the four corners of the world. Shocking food miles, nothing local or in season.

I'm wondering, can we come up with replacements for all these no doubt needlessly exotic ingredients? I'd start by swapping that salt for some good quality British sea salt!

Obviously the choc part would be dropped too for 100% localness ... I dunno, maybe strawberry or apple flavour or something would be just as nice anyway.

For the base:
300g Pecans or Almonds
1 tsp, Pink Himalayan Salt
200g, medjool dates

For the filling:
Blend the flesh of 4 medium, ripe avocados
150g Virgin coconut oil
Beans of 2 whole vanilla pods
200g raw cacao powder
Pinch of salt
300g coconut blossom sugar or agave nectar to taste.

Destructions:
In a food processor, blend the pecans or almonds (Preferably, soak them for around 6 hours and then dehydrate them. The soaking releases the enzyme inhibitors and makes them easier to digest)

Then add the Pink Himalayan salt or another good quality salt. To this, add the Fresh medjool dates. Blend until you have a ‘dough’, or until the mix forms a ball.

Press this mixture into the bottom of a mould. Cover in cling film and leave to harden in the freezer till you are ready to pour on the filling. I like to use a silicone mould. They are freezer safe and easy to get the tart out once it has set.

Blend your filling ingredients until smooth, and then pour onto the base.

[spider8]

I know, I watched and drooled . It would be terrible with the food miles as you say and very expensive to make......just wish I could have a taste of it to see if it's really as yummy as it looked before launching into trying to make one myself. It will probably be one of those recipes I never get to do.

[earthworm]

So, dates are just a dried really sweet fruit? So, maybe dried strawberries, and blend with hazelnuts and sea salt for the base?

[Green Aura]

If you're going to replace everything for local equivalents or substitutions then it will bear no relation to the original recipe - is there anything that even grows in Europe apart from sea salt and almonds?

I have much less of an issue with importing the exotic stuff - at least it's usually something we can't produce ourselves. Much better than out of season runner beans from Kenya.

[John Headstrong]

I was watching something on TV and really wanted to do it but the ingredients put me off, my better half told me to find a simple version or similar and I found this http://whokilledthecooker.blogspot.com/ ... cotta.html

I had all the stuff in that I needed ! it is rare that I have all the things in from any TV program and I always tweak when I can.

and Maggie, do you even get "exotic stuff" like avocados up there ? it is bad enough here!

[Green Aura]

They even manage to get all the way up here, John, along with chocolate, coffee and all the other "essential" exotics!