Recipe: Raw Chocolate Tart

Whether you are giving Veganuary a try or follow a gluten-free diet, this luscious plant-based dessert from the Wild Recipes cookbook is bursting with flavour

Globetrotting, health-food-loving entrepreneur Emma Sawko is passionate about making great food that is as good for you as it is for the planet and runs the Wild & The Moon restaurants in Paris, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

In her new cookbook, Wild & The Moon’s team of chefs, nutritionists and naturopaths have crafted 120 superfood-enriched recipes, along with notes on associated health and beauty benefits.

Wild & The Moon restaurants, which can be found in Place du Marché, Saint-Honoré; Rue Charlot; Rue des Gravilliers; Rue Amelot; Rue du Helder; Rue du Plâtre and Rue de Charenton in Paris, are lauded for their organic, plant-based, gluten-free, no additives, no preservatives and zero plastic concept.

INGREDIENTS

Serves 12

For the crust:

7oz (200g) date paste

Scant 1 cup (6oz/160g) toasted hazelnuts

3½oz (100g) gluten-free rolled oats

1 tbsp plus 1 tsp (15g) coconut oil

1 pinch salt

1 pinch ground cinnamon

For the filling:

1½ cups (9oz/250g) cashews, pre-soaked in cold water for eight hours

? cup (2½ oz/70g) coconut oil

3½ tbsp (70g) maple syrup

Scant ½ cup (1¾ oz/50g) unsweetened cocoa powder

? cup (150ml) water

1 pinch ground vanilla bean

1 pinch ground cinnamon

3oz (75g) dark chocolate

To serve:

Unsweetened shredded coconut for sprinkling

Edible flowers, washed

METHOD

1. To make the crust, blend all the ingredients together until they resemble coarse crumbs. Press the crumbs together with your hands to make a dough, shape it into a ball and roll out into a round large enough to line an 11-inch (28cm) tart pan or tart ring set on a cookie sheet. Chill in the refrigerator while you prepare the filling.

2. To make the filling, drain the cashews and rinse well. Process all the ingredients together, except the chocolate, until smooth and creamy. Chop the chocolate and melt it in a bain-marie or a bowl set over a pan of just simmering water.

3. When melted, stir until smooth and then gradually fold it into the creamy mixture with a spatula. Spread the filling evenly over the chilled crust and return to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

4. Serve the tart sprinkled with shredded coconut and decorated with a few edible flowers.

Wild Recipes: Plant-Based, Organic, Gluten-Free, Delicious by Emma Sawko, £25, (Flammarion, 2020)

wildandthemoon.fr/en

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