Puchero – Idukki, India, White 40% with Lime and Lavender

About the bar

This bar is Puchero’s first creation using white chocolate as a base. The bar is made with single-origin cacao butter sourced from Idukki, India, and lavender grown by Tiedra de Lavanda in Valladolid, Spain. One side of the bar is coated with dehydrated lime, strawberries, and blueberries – Puchero recommend placing the bottom of the bar on the tongue first.

About the maker

Puchero was established in 2015 by husband and wife; Marco and Paloma. Inspired by travelling around South East Asia, they started out in the world of speciality coffee, roasting single-origin brews. After 3 years they moved into craft chocolate, mastering roasting, grinding, concheing and tempering techniques to produce a selection of delicious craft chocolate bars. Based in Spain, they have experimented with new flavours – developing an exceptional range of inclusion bars – including a croissant bar in collaboration with Madrid based artisan Bakery.

The beans

Known as the spice garden of Kerala, the Idukki region of southern India has long had the climate and ecology to grow cocoa. But it wasn’t until 2016, when GoGround started investing in post-harvest processing facilities and farmer education, that fine-flavour cocoa farming really took off. Now husband-and-wife Luca and Ellen, with the support of the Italian RIVA foundation, have built relationships with the smallholder farmers of Udumbannoor, paying them guaranteed weekly payments in exchange for freshly harvested cocoa beans.

Allergens*

May contain cereals containing gluten, milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

organic cacao butter, organic cane sugar, milk powder, blueberry, strawberry, lime (0.9%), lavender (0.13%)

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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