India
Coconut jaggery chocolate bars
Like the famous coconut chocolate bar, but the filling grew up in a Kerala kitchen.
90 minTime
2 gProtein each
mildSpice
Coconut bars, gur inside3 chapters · 2 min readMake it your way
Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.
The original229kcal
2 gprotein
3 gfibre
90minutes
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.
Ingredients
Method
5 steps- 1Warm the coconut milk and jaggery on low heat until the jaggery melts. Stir in the desiccated coconut, 15 g coconut oil, cardamom and salt and cook 3 minutes.
- 2Press firmly into a lined 15 x 20 cm tin and freeze 30 minutes.
- 3Cut into 12 bars and return to the freezer while you melt the chocolate.
- 4Melt the chocolate with the remaining coconut oil over barely simmering water.
- 5Dip each bar with a fork, tap off the excess and set on paper. Drag the fork over the top for ridges. Chill 20 minutes.
Serve it like this
Halve one bar to show the white coconut inside and arrange the rest in a row on a board.
