Champorado - Instant Pot + Stovetop

Champorado is a chocolate rice porridge popular among most Filipinos as breakfast fare, or at times, for merienda snacks. The sweet rice is cooked together with coconut milk, sugar, and chocolate tablea which are cacao discs made in the Philippines. I shared how to cook this easily in two alternate ways: either in the Instant Por or stovetop. This is a recipe from The Quirino Kitchen by Elizabeth Ann Quirino

Cook Time15

Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Snack

Cuisine: Asian, Filipino

Keyword: Champorado Instant Pot

Servings: people

Calories: 608kcal

Author: Elizabeth Ann Quirino

Equipment

Instant Pot multicooker: 3, 6 or 8 quarts
Stockpot - medium-sized for stovetop cooking

Ingredients

1 cup sweet rice or sticky rice (malagkit)
3 cups water
1 cup coconut milk
1 cup granulated sugar
4 tablets Tablea chocolate discs
⅛ teaspoon salt

Instructions

To cook Champorado in the Instant Pot:(option 1)

Wash rice well and drain liquid.
Put the rice in the inside pot of the Instant Pot.
Pour the water, and coconut milk. Add the sugar.
Chop the tablea discs coarsely and toss it together with the mixture.
Add the salt. Stir the uncooked rice mixture.
Close and lock the lid. Set the valve to Sealing.
Click on the Rice button and allow mixture to steam for 14 minutes.
When timer buzzes to indicate cooking is done, slowly do a Natural Release (let steam come down on its own).
Carefully unlock the cover and place on a safe, dry counter.
With a long cooking spoon or ladle, stir the Champorado mixture. Ladle into individual bowls. Serve warm.

To cook Champorado stovetop (option 2):

Wash rice and drain liquid. Place rice in a medium-sized stockpot.
Pour water. Cover and cook rice over high heat for 8 to 10 minutes. When it boils, lower heat to medium. Stir to prevent rice from sticking to bottom.
When rice is cooked, add sugar, salt and coarsely chopped tablea.
When chocolate has melted, pour the coconut milk. Continue cooking on low heat for 5 minutes more. Make sure rice is cooked completely.
Serve warm in individual bowls.

Cook's comments:

The Filipino Tablea package I bought from the Asian grocery contained a pack of 10 cacao tablets, with a total net weight of 7.05 ounces or 200 g. You can find these at Asian markets or online sources like Amazon here in the USA. In the Philippines, tablea are widely available in supermarkets, department stores or artisan food bazaars.

Ingredient Substitute:

If chocolate tablea is not available, you can substitute 1/4 cup powdered chocolate drink like Milo or Ovaltine. I have tried this and it is just as scrumptious.

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