Clean Eating Pineapple With Chocolate Sauce

This recipe is not earth shattering in it’s creativity. But the flavor is another matter all together! I think this is one of my new favorite desserts.

I received The Flavor Bible for Christmas this year, and was was looking through it to see what I could create for my Valentine’s Day dessert. Pineapple had popped up on the food aphrodisiac list I was using, so it was a good starting point. After looking through The Flavor Bible, a couple of flavor choices really resonated with me. Chocolate and coconut.

Now, I’m not a coconut fan AT ALL! I run from coconut. Can’t stand the stuff. But coconut milk is a completely different story. Don’t ask me why. I really don’t know. I love coconut milk but can’t stand coconut. Just another quirk in my brilliance (or so I tell myself).

Now, since this is for Valentine’s Day, I had to choose other aphrodisiac foods to go into this dessert. Chocolate is an obvious aphrodisiac. It always has been. It’s for this reason that so many women receive boxes of it on V-day. It may seem traditional, but that’s the reason behind it (as far as I know).

But the coconut milk, was sort of a “round about” choice. The actual aphrodisiac is coconut water. But since I didn’t have any of that (and it probably wouldn’t have worked in this recipe anyway), I went with the next best thing. Coconut milk.

For the sweetener, I used agave. You can use just about any natural sweetener though. Just don’t overdo it, as the pineapple will add it’s own element of sweetness and you don’t want to achieve that “sickeningly sweet” taste.

Clean Eating Pineapple With Chocolate Sauce Recipe
(Makes approximately 1 1/2 cups of chocolate sauce)

Ingredients
1 can of pineapple slices (no added sugar), or fresh pineapple slices
4 oz. bakers chocolate
7 oz. light coconut milk
1/4 cup agave (start with 1/4 and add more to taste if necessary)

Directions

Step 1 – I tried “frying” my pineapple in it’s own juices to achieve a more “grilled” flavor. It failed miserably. So if you have a BBQ, you can grill your pineapple slices. You can also serve them fresh and cold. Any way you choose, it will taste good.

Step 2 – Baker’s chocolate usually comes in 1 oz. cubes inside an 8 oz. box. So open 4 of those cubes and place them in a bowl.

Step 3 – Heat your coconut milk and agave in a pot until it just barely starts to boil. Remove from heat immediately, and pour over chocolate. Allow to sit for about 3 – 5 minutes.

Step 4 – Begin the stirring process. I say process, because you will be stirring for about 5 – 10 minutes. At first, it will seem like you’ve made a mistake. The chocolate will not blend well. But keep stirring. Eventually, you will get a nice smooth chocolate sauce. I found it worked best to change between a fork and a whisk for mixing. The fork worked best in the beginning, and as the chocolate melted more and more, I changed to a whisk.

Step 5 – The taste test. If you have little ones around, they make excellent taste testers! But take a small taste yourself and see if you need more agave. If you do, gently whisk it in until you achieve a level of sweetness you enjoy. Remember, this will go over pineapples. So don’t get it overly sweet.

Step 6 – Stack a few pieces of pineapple, and drizzle about 1 tbsp. of warm chocolate sauce over each stack. (At this point, you may have to warm the chocolate sauce slightly in the microwave to make it “drizzly”. Just don’t overdo it or the chocolate will burn.)

Store any extra sauce in a jar in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

Eat and Enjoy!

Munchkin Helpers:

If you have little ones, here’s how they can help (With close supervision, of course).

Kids can stir the chocolate for a while to give you a break. They can also ladle the chocolate over the pineapple. Younger kids will need very close supervision with this, or you’ll have chocolate all over the place (please see photo above for proof).

Nutritional Content
(1 serving = 2 pineapple slices & 1 tbsp. chocolate sauce)

Calories: 175
Total Fat: 1 gm
Saturated Fats: 0 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 0 gm
Sodium: 6 mg
Carbohydrates: 44 gm
Dietary fiber: 0 gm
Sugars: 32 gm
Protein: 7 gm
Estimated Glycemic Load: 14

Nutritional Information estimated at Nutritiondata.com. Data may not be accurate.

Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).

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