Last Updated on December 12, 2025 by Chef Mireille
Champorado is a Filipino Chocolate Rice Pudding popularly enjoyed as breakfast. Filipinos definitely like to start the day with sweet things like this rice pudding and puto.
Just about every culture has some kind of rice pudding – a sweetened rice dish cooked with milk and/or water. However, the Phillipines has a chocolate version. Due to their mutual colonization by Spain, chocolate was brought to the Phillipines via Mexico and remained an integral item in Filipino cuisine used in desserts as well as hot chocolate. You should use a good quality dark chocolate that is at least 70% cacao.
It’s very important to use glutinous rice or another short grain rice that will release a lot of starch when it is cooked. Arborio rice is a good substitute if you cannot source sticky rice.
Although in the Philippines, this is usually had for breakfast, I like it as much for dessert as for breakfast!
Do you like rice pudding as much as I do? I am a rice pudding fanatic and have tried many different rice puddings from around the world. Be sure to check out some of my other rice pudding recipes – they make a great fall dessert – whether you prefer yours chilled or warm!
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HOW TO MAKE CHAMPORADO
Filipino Champorado Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 oz. good quality dark chocolate
- 1 cup glutinous/sweet/sticky rice
- 5 cups water
- 1/3 cup sugar + 2 tablespoons
- evaporated milk for serving
Instructions
- Using a double boiler, melt the chocolate.
- Wash the rice in a few exchanges of water.
- Bring rice and water to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 20-25 minutes, until thickened and rice is tender.
- Add sugar and chocolate and stir to combine. Cook for a few minutes, until sugar melts.
- To serve, top with evaporated milk.Enjoy warm or at room temperature.
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wow thats a very very delicious and yummy chocolate rice pudding from filipino 🙂
Chocolate rice pudding is a brilliant idea. This one looks super chocolatey!
Rice pudding with chocolate …wow ! Yummylicious…
Drooling Mireille, really! Its lunch time and all this talk of chocolate and rice pudding is making me very very hungry..
Wow Mir, that's yet another wonderful discovery for me…sounds so delicious and just the right one to get my kids eat..looks so sinful!
You make me hungry Mir.
Very interesting pudding,that too with chocolate..am loving it.
looks beautiful, and words like sticky rice, chocolatey goeey all make me hungry
looks extra sinful with all that chocolate!
Oh wow! I must confess that I am not a fan of rice pudding but the addition of the chocolate. Can't say no to chocolate!
So yummy! Like you said, lately I am learning about all the different rice puddings made in different countries!
That is such a sinful treat.. yumm. yumm..
For the past few minutes I have been practically drooling over your chocolate treats! This one sounds so delicious and once again I am bookmarking this too 🙂
One more chocolate treat!!!Looks amazing
A chocolatey rice pudding for breakfast, you’ve got my attention. Such a creamy and easy to make Champorado.I would love to enjoy it as a dessert too, chilled.
Yes Filipinos like sweet things for breakfast, but I’m with you – I prefer to enjoy it as dessert.