Champorado is a typical Filipino dish that is served as breakfast and oftentimes a snack. It’s simply a rice porridge cooked in cocoa, sugar and coconut milk. This Filipino chocolate flavored rice porridge is often served with either fried dried fish or crispy bacon, and hot coffee. Champorado or Samporado as it is called in Bicol dialect is usually topped with a swirl of evaporated milk prior to serving. Other consumers prefer it without milk specially when this Filipino chocolate-flavored, rice porridge is already stewed in coconut milk.
Millie’s Bicol style, Samporado or Champorado, is a combination of the white rice and sweet rice(kakanin). She had it boiled in cocoa solids, sugar and coconut milk, then served it with both fried dried fish(tuyo) and crispy fried bacon. Delicious!
Ingredients: 2-3 servings
1/4 cup of white rice
1/2 cup of glutinous sweet rice
1 can(8 oz.) of coconut milk
2 pieces of cocoa solids
6-8 cups of water
Cooking Procedure:
- Combine white and sweet rice on a large pot, mix well, then rinse to remove any unwanted starch from the rice grains. Apply 6-8 cups of water, depending on your sauce preference.
- Set the stove heat to medium, then bring the rice combo in to a boil until rice starts to soften. Add the cocoa solids, stir to thoroughly incorporate, then continue to simmer.
- Add more water if needed. Apply a small can of coconut milk while it simmers. Add sugar and mix thoroughly. Adjust the fire to low heat.
- Continue to let Champorado simmer while stirring occasionally. Make sure this delicious, Filipino chocolate flavored, rice porridge does not dry and stick into the bottom pot.
- When rice is completely soft and chocolate sauce thickens, remove from the heat immediately. Serve Millie’s Bicol style, Samporado hot, with your favorite side dish.
- Whether you prefer crispy bacon or crispy fried dried fish, they are both enticingly delicious with a cup of hot coffee to enjoy.
Tip: If cocoa solids are not available, substitute it with unsweetened chocolate bars or powdered cocoa that is available at any grocery store.
