This week’s Sunday Supper event is all about Valentine’s Recipes For Two!  So all the bloggers taking part to this event will post recipes for two.  Don’t you just love it?  I think it is a very clever idea!  Obviously, if you want to make one of the dishes for more people, you can simply multiply the below doses for as many people as you like.  For this event, I thought I should share a chocolate recipe (who doesn’t like chocolate for Valentine’s Day??) and I wanted it to be an Italian dish.  When I looked through my Visual Archive, I was shocked to see that among my 600+ recipes, I still hadn’t posted a Chocolate Budino recipe!  Budino is a very common dessert in Italy… it is what kids have for tea time very often and I think I grew up on this as well as on Nutella!! Hehehe  I remember clearly that my neighbour’s mum would often make it and she would give me some too.  Chocolate Budino is soooo good.  It is creamy, but more solid than a mousse and believe it or not, it is actually very nutrient, so it is perfect for children and adults alike.  As this was going to be a Valentine’s Day post, I thought I should add something else to it… and I made some strawberry jello hearts.  The whole combination worked out great in terms of colours, presentation and flavours, so I was quite pleased with this recipe and I am very happy to share it with you today!  Enjoy!

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Chocolate Budino with Strawberry Hearts #SundaySupper

Chocolate Budino with Strawberry Hearts - the perfect chocolate pudding recipe to give your Valentine's Day an Italian twist!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 2

Author Manuela Zangara

Ingredients

Chocolate Budino

• 200 ml – 6 ¾ oz. milk warm
• 40 gms – 1.5 oz. butter
• 40 gms – 1.5 oz. dark chocolate chopped
• 20 gms – ¾ oz. corn starch
• 38 gms – 1.5 oz. sugar
• Whipped cream to serve

Strawberry Hearts

• 25 gms – 1 oz. strawberries
• 20 gms – ¾ oz. sugar
• 1 gelatine sheet
• ½ tbsp strawberry syrup
• Water

Instructions

Chocolate Budino

1. Put the butter in a saucepan and let it melt on a slow flame.
2. Add the sugar and mix.
3. Add the cornstarch and mix.
4. Slowly add the warm milk.
5. Add the chopped chocolate and bring to a simmer.
6. Once it starts simmering, let it cook for 2 minutes while constantly stirring.
7. Wet the moulds with a little water and pour the chocolate mixture in them.
   
8. Let the budino cool down and then place it in the fridge for at least 2 hours (or overnight) before serving.
9. Serve cold, topped with whipped cream.

Strawberry Hearts

1. Blend and sieve the cleaned strawberries.
2. Add the strawberry syrup and enough water until you have 40 ml – 1.5 oz. of liquid.
3. Put the gelatine sheet in a bowl with cold water and let it sit there for 5 minutes.
4. In the meantime, put the sugar in a saucepan with 12 ml – 0.4 oz. of water and bring to a boil. Let it simmer for 3 minutes then put the fire off.
5. Drain the gelatine sheet and add it to the hot sugar syrup.
6. Mix well and add it to the strawberry mixture. Mix until combined.
7. Pour the mixture into your moulds and put them in the fridge to set (this will take at least 2 hours).
   
8. Unmould them and serve with the budino.

Recipe Notes

This recipe makes 4x15 ml – ½ oz. strawberry hearts.

The consistency of budino is somewhat in between that of a mousse and a panna cotta. It is not as “smooth” as a panna cotta, but you can unmould it if you are very careful. If you are unsure of how to unmould it, serve it in individual glass shooters/little cups.

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