Lean chocolate mannikin on oat milk

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To prepare a lean chocolate mannikin, measure out the necessary ingredients. Oat milk should not be cold, at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance. Oatmeal milk can be vanilla, plain without additives or chocolate. I had vanilla. Take high-quality semolina, well sifted without black dots. Use flour of the highest grade.

2. Step 2:

   

   Combine semolina and sugar in a deep bowl. Stir with a spoon.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour in oat milk and vegetable oil. Stir everything well with a whisk. There should be no lumps left. Leave the mixture for 40 minutes at room temperature so that the semolina swells well. This is an important point: semolina should swell well and absorb milk and butter. If this does not happen, for example, because of cold milk, then the semolina grains in the finished pie will crunch on the teeth.

4. Step 4:

   

   Sift together flour, baking powder, cocoa and vanilla and pour into the semolina mixture.

6. Step 5:

   

   Mix everything with a whisk until smooth. The finished dough should be viscous, but fluid. Let the dough stand for another 10 minutes. During this time, semolina should swell even more, if this did not happen earlier, and the flour will release gluten and the dough will become a little more viscous.

7. Step 6:

   

   While the dough is infused, chop the chocolate into small pieces. You can take the usual bitter or dark chocolate or heat-resistant in the form of small drops, which do not need to be further crushed. I had the usual bitter chocolate with a cocoa content of 70%.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour the chocolate-semolina mixture into the cake pan. If the mold is silicone, there is no need to lubricate it with anything. Sprinkle the chocolate pieces on top. Put the mannikin in a preheated 180 ° C oven and bake for about 40 minutes until ready.

9. Step 8:

   

   The chocolate has slightly melted, but in general it has retained its shape, which gives the mannik an interesting look and some French charm. Put the finished mannikin out of the mold on a dish and, if desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Enjoy your meal!