Cherry Chocolate Beignets with Vanilla Stewed Cherries
You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Cherry Chocolate Beignets with Vanilla Stewed Cherries a try. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains roughly 4g of protein, 16g of fat, and a total of 333 calories. If you have vanilla bean, bittersweet chocolate, vegetable oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 35 minutes.
Instructions
Split the vanilla bean in half and with a back of a paring knife scrape the inside of its seeds. In a medium saucepan, add the 4 cups of cherries, red wine, 1/2 cup sugar and the vanilla bean and it's seeds. Cook over medium heat for 15 minutes, remove vanilla bean. Keep stewed cherries warm.
To make Cherry Chocolate Beignets: In a large saucepan, heat up the oil for frying to 360 degrees F. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt, set aside. In another medium bowl whisk eggs with oil, remaining 1/4 cup sugar and milk.
Add flour mixture to egg mixture, stir in melted chocolate and dried cherries.
Roll 2 tablespoons of batter into balls. Fry each side for 1 minute.
Transfer beignets to a rack.
To serve, place about 1/3 cup of the poached cherries with liquid in a soup bowl.
Place 2 to 3 beignets on top and garnish with Cocoa-Sugar Dusting.
In a small bowl combine cocoa powder and sugar.