CHOCOLATE AND STRAWBERRIES DESSERT

"Wanna be always Happy?  Always carry some chocolate with you. ". -- Pablo

With Valentine Day around the corner, a chocolate dessert can be a perfect dish for special someone or even for your next get together. Chocolate, especially dark chocolate, is not just delicious food it has innumerable health benefits. It lowers cholesterol, prevents memory decline, lowers heart disease risk and it is full of anti oxidants.  So what is there not to like about chocolate.

Last week I bought some strawberries which turned out to be more tart than I expected. Worse is they seemed nice and ripe on the top but when I opened the package, many of them were rotten. I could not waste the good ones so I washed them, cut into small pieces and cooked them with some sugar in order to preserve for a day or so.   That is when it dawned on me to come up with dark chocolate and strawberries combo dessert   This dessert can be made in a jiffy and it does not require any baking.

Ingredients:

 1 cup grated dark baking chocolate. 1/2 cup strawberries, 15 Marie low fat biscuits or any kind of less sweet biscuits, 1/4 cup milk, a few colourful m&ms to decorate 

 Method:  

Cut strawberries into small pieces put three tsp sugar and cook them. When strawberries turn soft and a bit syrupy, turn off the flame. Let it cool off

In a mixer make powder of biscuits. 

In the double boiler melt the dark chocolate. When it gets melted, add milk and stir well. Now add powdered biscuits to the chocolate mix and stir vigorously till everything blends well.

Pour this in a pie dish. Put in the refrigerator for 10 - 15 minutes. 

When it turns a bit hard, pour cooked strawberries in a circle or any other pattern of your choice. Put in the freezer. Ten minutes  before eating  or serving take the dessert out of freezer and decorate with colourful M&Ms. Enjoy.