Champorado facts for kids
 
Top: A bowl of champorado with milk; Bottom: Tabliya, locally made tablets of pure chocolate made from fermented, toasted, and ground cocoa beans
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| Type | Porridge |
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| Place of origin | Philippines |
| Serving temperature | Hot or cold |
| Main ingredients | Glutinous rice, tabliya, milk or coconut milk, sugar |
| Variations | Tinughong |
Champorado or tsampurado (from Spanish: champurrado) is a sweet chocolate rice porridge in Philippine cuisine.
Ingredients
It is traditionally made by boiling sticky rice with tablea (traditional tablets of pure ground roasted cocoa beans). It can be served hot or cold, usually for breakfast or merienda, with milk (or coconut milk) and sugar to taste. It is usually eaten as is, but a common pairing is with salted dried fish (daing or tuyo).
Tinughong is a variant of champorado in the Visayan-speaking regions of the Philippines. It is usually made by boiling sticky rice with sugar instead of tablea. Coffee or milk are sometimes added to it.
History
Its history can be traced back from the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. During the galleon trade between Mexico and the Philippines, Mexican traders brought the knowledge of making champurrado to the Philippines (on the way back, they introduced tuba in Mexico). Through the years, the recipe changed; Filipinos eventually found ways to make the Mexican champurrado a Philippine champorado by replacing masa with sticky rice.
See also
In Spanish: Champurrado (gacha) para niños
