Ovos de Pascoa - Easy Easter Eggs - Goan Style
Ovos de Pascoa is a Goan recipe and translates from Portuguese as Easter Eggs. An egg free recipe, these are made with milk, cocoa, sugar and crushed Marie biscuits.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups to 3 cups Marie biscuit crumbs (300gm s)
- 1/2 cup chocolate finely chopped semi sweet
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 tbsps cocoa unsweetened powder
- 1 tsp coffee instant powder (optional)
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar golden
- 1/4 cup almonds chopped
- 1/4 cup cashewnuts chopped
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1 1/2 to 2 cups milk chocolate eggs chopped or semi sweet , for coating the
Instructions
- To crush the Marie biscuits, put them in a ziplock bag and thump them with rolling pin to break them into small pieces. If you powder the Marie biscuits, your u201cEggsu201d will be fudgier in texture. If you want to powder them, run the rolling pin over the bag until all the pieces are powdered.
- Put the milk and sugar in a pan and bring it to boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Turn off the heat and add the chocolate and stir until it is dissolved completely. Add the remaining ingredients, except the biscuit crumbs and mix well.
- Now add the biscuit crumbs and mix well until you have a dough. Let the mixture cool slightly till it can be handled by hand. Shape into eggs and allow them to dry out. Refrigerate the eggs to set them.
- When ready to coat them with chocolate, take them out. Melt chocolate and add the oil for shine, over a double boiler. Dip the eggs one at time, into the chocolate. Use a spoon to pour the chocolate over the egg to make coating easy.
Notes
Lift the egg out of the chocolate with two forks, allowing the excess chocolate to drain off, P the chocolate coated eggs on baking parchment lined sheets to set. Then drizzle some more chocolate over tham and place them in paper cups. Otherwise wrap them in coloured foil. Refrigerate if necessary. This recipe makes about 20 two inch long eggs.