Champorado Explained

Champorado
Alternate Name:Tsampurado
Country:Philippines
Type:Porridge
Served:Hot or cold
Main Ingredient:Glutinous rice, tabliya, milk or coconut milk, sugar
Variations:Tinughong
Calories:244.30
Minor Ingredient:Daing or Tuyô and roasted cocoa beans
Protein:7.60
Fat:10
Carbohydrate:54.50
Similar Dish:Champurrado

Champorado or tsampurado[1] (from Spanish; Castilian: champurrado)[1] is a sweet chocolate rice porridge in Philippine cuisine.

Ingredients

It is traditionally made by boiling sticky rice with tablea (traditional tablets of pure ground roasted cocoa beans). It can be served hot or cold, usually for breakfast or merienda, with a drizzle of milk (or coconut milk) and sugar to taste. It is usually eaten as is, but a common pairing is with salted dried fish (daing or tuyo).

Tinughong is a variant of champorado in the Visayan-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.[2] [3]

A popular new variant of champorado is ube champorado, which has a purple yam (ube) flavoring and ube halaya. It is characteristically purple like all ube-based dishes.[4] Other contemporary variants include white, pandan and strawberry flavors.

History

Its history can be traced back from the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. During the galleon trade between Mexico and the Philippines, Mexican traders brought the knowledge of making champurrado to the Philippines (on the way back, they introduced tuba in Mexico pampanga). Through the years, the recipe changed; Filipinos eventually found ways to make the Mexican champurrado a Philippine champorado by replacing masa with sticky rice.[5]

See also

References

  1. [Virgilio Almario|Almario, Virgilio]
  2. Rose Catherine S. Tejano. December 16, 2012. Sikwate Stories. The Bohol Chronicle. 344. July 28, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160813104806/http://www.dalareichtableya.com/tag/sikwate/. August 13, 2016. dead.
  3. Web site: Bisaya English Translation of "tinughong". Cebuano Dictionary. Sandayong.com. July 28, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160914093414/http://translate.sandayong.com/cebuano/english/tinughong. September 14, 2016. dead.
  4. Web site: Ube Champorado . yummy.ph . October 18, 2017 . August 18, 2024.
  5. Web site: Mexico Champorado . January 31, 2011 . May 8, 2018 .