Homemade Chocolate Sauce and Cream with Carob
Carob powder, with its cocoa-like color and caramelly flavor, can be used for homemade "chocolate-like" sauces and creams. Thanks to its natural sweetness, the need for added sugar is reduced in these recipes, resulting in a distinctive flavor that is different from cocoa.
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Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) is one of the oldest cultivated trees in the Mediterranean basin. It turned into a sign meaning "sweet" in ancient Egyptian writing, gained a place in the Greek and Roman world as both a food and weight unit, and became widespread in the Middle Ages with the interest of Arab and Andalusian agricultural writers.
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