Why Use Ghee in Chocolate?
Your brain and mouth shall be so in harmony with chocolate that you’ll be licking through the cocoa’s melted bliss for hours. Then you’ll realize you never want to escape, and sink in, and be ours forever.
Chocolate drives me insane.
Okay, so ghee chocolate. I was going to make a too easy coconut oil chocolate recipe. I just mix a 1:1 ratio of coconut oil and cocoa powder together and it is all my body wants for hours. I feel so synchronized with it. My body understands chocolate. It has even mapped it in my brain with a permanent spot. Oh yes. Your body maps the nutrients you give it like connections to life. It’s like when you search for someone in a room and find them. Your brain just has these maps of resources. Where’s Waldo but for food.
My most potent brain map connections are to meat, oils, fats, and cocoa powder. To combine oil, or any fat, with cocoa, is just a mind symphony reaching through my brain. It connects. My taste explodes with the flavor it knows, and I’m in bliss.
Ghee chocolate was a spontaneous desire and it was so delicious and looked so beautiful I just had to share it with you. It has a more buttery taste than the coconut oil, but I really enjoy it. The taste is a bit more like browned crispy butter fondling chocolate. I love it. In fact, I’m about to go make some more. I might not even chill it.
Update:
I didn’t. It’s incredible both ways. Try it both soft and hard. This easy chocolate recipe can be made every day…or every hour.
What is Ghee?
Ghee is very similar to brown butter so if you’ve had brown butter you already know the flavor well. Brown butter is cooked a little longer and sometimes the whey is mixed into it/the leftover milk particles. Ghee is very ancient in terms of its creation point, far later than any American dish. Eating ghee is like eating history. In Hinduism cows are sacred and as a way to honor the gods Ghee would be presented to them as a sacred gift of sacred cows. There is even a hymn for ghee.Â
Ghee is now used in a new yet old yet possibly not the true old diet, paleo. Because the milk solids are separated ghee is lactose-free and way easier to digest than dairy. You can use it in your baked goods and even in your morning coffee for a caramelized butter flavor.
Ghee Chocolate Recipe Ingredients:
1:1 Ratio of Ghee and Cocoa
Turn life to epic mode and make ghee yourself if you have some extra time.Â
I use this cocoa. To make your own go-to the cherry forest.
A pure chocolate recipe will taste bitter at first if you have never tried sugar-free chocolate. No worries, your mouth and taste buds will adjust through time. Have a bit of the 100% chocolate with no added sweetener and let it be bitter. Then, add in a bit of sweetener and decrease each day so you can get closer and closer to cocoa.
Directions for Making Ghee Chocolate:
Mix together the ghee and cocoa powder and refrigerate to desired consistency. If you leave the chocolate in for about thirty minutes it will have a delicious texture between soft and hard.
Ghee chocolate can also be used as a glaze on a cake, cupcakes or even paired with ice cream. I love it straight from the bowl and this is my midnight snack. Actually, I go to sleep at 11 so more like 10 o’clock snack. This chocolate recipe is as good as a shot of Lagavulin, and I don’t type that lightly.
Optional Add-Ins for Ghee Chocolate:
Lime Juice
Lime Zest
Fleur De Sel
Sea Salt
Cinnamon
Berries
Tiny Swirl of Honey
Visual Tutorial for Making Ghee Chocolate:
Mix one part cocoa powder to one part ghee.
For a thicker consistency add more cocoa:
For a more smooth consistency add more ghee:
Let it set in the fridge:
You can even sprinkle on salt once it’s set:
You can also squeeze in some lime juice:
For other sweetener-free chocolate recipes check out my 100% chocolate avocado donuts and for an easy paleo and whole 30 treat check out these poached pears you can make in the instant pot!
Ingredients
3 Tablespoons of Ghee
3 Tablespoons of Cocoa Powder
Optional:
Sprinkle of Salt (start small and increase after tasting)
Sweetener- (maple syrup would keep the earthy flavor as well as coconut sugar or maple sugar)
Instructions
Use a spoon to combine the ghee and chocolate at a one to one ratio. Start off with a teaspoon of powder at a time and mix slowly so the powder doesn't poof all over you or your counter.
Smile as you eat it, you deserve it.
16 comments
Thanks for sharing this recipe! I’ll be following your blog from now on. I’m always on the lookout for low carb blogs. 🙂
Thanks love! I love followers. What brought you into the low carb lifestyle?
The fact that it would give me more energy and I would shed some excess weight 🙂
Oh those are blissbrilliant reasons. I barely exercise and yet remain small. Keto for life <3 The energy is also incredible
How small do you remain? And I know right? However, ultimately if you do consume more energy than you expend it will add up. I wonder how keto helps in this aspect though.
Here you are lovely. This man explains it really well: http://www.ruled.me/guide-keto-diet
I’ve read countless keto how-tos and am no beginner when it comes to Keto. I realize that for some people depending on how much fats they consume, they can’t lose weight and this is especially true if you are an overeater or binge eater by habit.
Yeah I think the body eventually learns to regulate itself, but most of our bodies are so out of wack and balance that it can take time. A calorie deficit for a while must be necessary for some.
You think so? I agree with you that the body will eventually learn to heal itself, but often when we are so rrrammed to overeating it’s hard to stop eating once you start, simply because you are food addicted if that makes sense?
It does, and I’ve actually been struggling there lately. The thing is that sugar is a drug, and when we get off it we lose that adaptation to it. In that adaptation was control. Humans overdose on drugs by getting off of them and then taking the same amount later on. Not sure of the exact time frame of loss. It hasn’t been studies enough. The body can literally die from the same amount, simply by losing those previously built adaptations. It’s actually how Phillip Serymour Hoffman died.
Overdose also happens if you have the same amount of drug in a different environment. Say you have 20g at home and then 20g elsewhere. The brain is adapting to new environmental cues and when it doesn’t find secure ones (like it would at home) it overactivates the brain and overstimulates it, or overdepresses it, as it feeds on the drug’s reactions inside you and catalyzes the activity. Disclaimer: that last sentence I just self hypothesized so it might not be true. I’ll do a study later *plans to be neuroscientist*
When we get off sugar for a long time, and then have it again, we ‘lose’ control because we have lost those adaptations. So the ‘hoard’/overeating aspect to sugar comes back. Then we over eat. The problem is America doesn’t accept it as a drug and there are cues for it everywhere (Donut shops, sugar in everything, etc.) and so we ‘fail’ and eat it more and more. Really the brain is addicted and is having cues everywhere, just like cigarettes and alcohol. Cues remind our brain of the drug and then it begs for it because it is just so vivid to the mind.
Green tea really helps. Don’t even add fake sweetener. Fake sweetener harms the gut and triggers the brain into wanting sugar again due to familiarity.
Green tea sparks the mind and helps it move on through neurogenesis. Authority Nutrition has a research article on it: http://authoritynutrition.com/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-green-tea/
“What caffeine does in the brain is to block an inhibitory neurotransmitter called Adenosine. This way, it actually increases the firing of neurons and the concentration of neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine”.
Very insightful. Thanks for sharing! I’ll be more into green tea now. 🙂
never say no to chocolate!
I don’t think I could. It even knows how to get me. I swear it could seduce me even if I went priest mode.
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