Anvil
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Anvils are as massive as practical, because the highe ...
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Pasig
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. (from es, champurrado) is a sweet
chocolate
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civil ...
rice
porridge
Porridge is a food made by heating or boiling ground, crushed or chopped starchy plants, typically grain, in milk or water. It is often cooked or served with added flavourings such as sugar, honey, (dried) fruit or syrup to make a sweet cereal, ...
in
Philippine cuisine
Filipino cuisine ( fil, lutong Pilipino/pagkaing Pilipino) is composed of the cuisines of more than a hundred distinct ethnolinguistic groups found throughout the Philippine archipelago. A majority of mainstream Filipino dishes that compose F ...
.
Ingredients
It is traditionally made by boiling
sticky rice
Glutinous rice (''Oryza sativa var. glutinosa''; also called sticky rice, sweet rice or waxy rice) is a type of rice grown mainly in Southeast and East Asia, and the northeastern regions of South Asia, which has opaque grains, very low amylo ...
with '' tablea'' (traditional tablets of pure ground roasted
cocoa bean
The cocoa bean (technically cocoa seed) or simply cocoa (), also called the cacao bean (technically cacao seed) or cacao (), is the dried and fully fermented seed of '' Theobroma cacao'', from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substa ...
s). It can be served hot or cold, usually for breakfast or ''
merienda
Merienda is a light meal in southern Europe, particularly Spain (merenda in Galician, berenar in Catalan), Portugal (lanche or merenda) and Italy (merenda), as well as Hispanic America, Philippines (meryenda/merienda), North Africa (Morocco), ...
'', with
milk
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(or
coconut milk
Coconut milk is an opaque, milky-white liquid extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts. The opacity and rich taste of coconut milk are due to its high oil content, most of which is saturated fat. Coconut milk is a traditional food i ...
) and sugar to taste. It is usually eaten as is, but a common pairing is with salted dried fish (''
daing
''Daing'', ''tuyô'', or ''bilad'' (literally "sun-dried" or "sun-baked") are dried fish from the Philippines. Fish prepared as ''daing'' are usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun and air-dri ...
'' or '' tuyo'').
''Tinughong'' is a variant of champorado in the
Visayan
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-speaking regions of the Philippines. It is usually made by boiling sticky rice with sugar instead of tablea. Coffee or milk are sometimes added to it.
History
Its history can be traced back from the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. During the
galleon trade
fil, Galyon ng Maynila
, english_name = Manila Galleon
, duration = From 1565 to 1815 (250 years)
, venue = Between Manila and Acapulco
, location = New Spain (Spanish Empire ...
between Mexico and the Philippines, Mexican traders brought the knowledge of making ''
champurrado
Champurrado is a chocolate-based '' atole'', a warm and thick Mexican beverage. It is prepared with either ''masa de maíz'' ( lime-treated corn dough),'' masa harina'' (a dried version of this dough), or corn flour (simply very finely groun ...
'' to the Philippines (on the way back, they introduced ''
tuba
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'' in Mexico). Through the years, the recipe changed; Filipinos eventually found ways to make the Mexican ''
champurrado
Champurrado is a chocolate-based '' atole'', a warm and thick Mexican beverage. It is prepared with either ''masa de maíz'' ( lime-treated corn dough),'' masa harina'' (a dried version of this dough), or corn flour (simply very finely groun ...
'' a Philippine ''champorado'' by replacing masa with sticky rice.
See also
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List of porridges
Porridge is a dish made by boiling ground, crushed, or chopped starchy plants (typically grains) in water, milk, or both, with optional flavorings, and is usually served hot in a bowl or dish. It may be served as a sweet or savory dish, depending ...