Last Updated on November 19, 2019 by Chef Mireille
Icelandic Chocolate Porridge – #choctoberfest
Icelandic Chocolate Porridge – #choctoberfest – Kakosupa is a traditional comfort food Icelandic treat you won’t find in any restaurant!
As many of you know if you have read my recent post detailing What & Where to Eat in Reykjavic, I recently came back from a trip to Iceland. Therefore, you know I had to present at least one Icelandic recipe for this weeks #choctoberfest.
As many of you know, I also work as children’s culinary teacher in an after school program where I focus on teaching them foods and culture from around the world. Cooking is a great vehicle to teach your kids about history, geography and so much more.
I hope when you make any of my delicious recipes you also talk to your kids about the history of the recipe so they know what part of the world they are eating from. Perhaps looks for the country on a map or a globe. Cooking can lead to reinforcing their sense of history, geography, culture and math (if they are actually helping you make the recipe also).
I learned so much Viking culinary history when I was in Iceland and had the chance to visit a 7th generation family farm. Check out Viking Food Stories at FarmHotel Efstidalur to find out all I learned so that you can also impart this knowledge to your family as you enjoy this Icelandic Chocolate Porridge – #choctobfest.
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Whenever I travel, I always pick up at least one cookbook featuring local cuisine. Iceland was no different and I adapted this recipe from Nanna Rognvaldardottir’s Icelandic Food & Cookery.
This is a very traditional recipe you most likely won’t find in any restaurant, but homestyle Icelandic comfort food.
There are two ways of making this. You can either use cocoa powder or actual chocolate. Since I came back with a few bars of Icelandic chocolate (70% cacao), I decided to utilize this in the more elevated version of the recipe.
In Iceland, whenever cocoa powder is used instead of dark chocolate, it is generally meant for kids. So this is the adult version of this traditional dessert.
Not only in Iceland, but you will find versions of this unique Icelandic Chocolate Porridge – Kakosupa in other parts of Scandinavia also – especially Denmark!
It is a very customizable. You can make it as thick or as thin as you prefer, depending on how much potato starch slurry you use.
It can be served either warm or chilled, depending on the season.
I hope I’ve interested you in checking out more delicious recipes from this part of the world. Check out some of my other Scandinavian recipes!
Scandinavian Recipes
- Sandbakkels – Norwegian Almond Butter Cookie Cups
- Uppakra – Swedish Potato Cookies
- Skagenrora – Swedish Shrimp Salad
- Turnbrodsrolle – Swedish Rye Wraps
- Lefse – Norwegian Potato Bread
- Hiekkakakku – Finnish Sandtorte
- Viking Brown Bread
- Fjelbrod – Norwegian Whole Grain Quickbread
- Porkkana Laatikko – Carrot Rice Pudding
- Kalaallit Kaagiat – Greenlandic Cake
- Finnish Cardamom Tea Cake
- Swedish Pancakes
- Finnish Spinach Pancakes
Icelandic Chocolate Porridge – #choctoberfest
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 oz. chocolate
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- A pinch of salt
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 3 tablespoons potato starch or cornstarch
Instructions
- Using a double boiler, melt the chocolate.
- Transfer to a saucepan. Use a rubber spatula to make sure you get all of the chocolate.
- Add 1 cup water, cinnamon, salt and sugar.
- Bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add milk and bring to the boil again.
- Reduce to a simmer.
- Make a slurry by whisking together the potato starch with 4 tablespoons water in a small bowl.
- Add to the porridge and whisk well until thoroughly incorporated.
- Simmer 5 minutes.
- Serve warm or chilled.
Notes
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I’m jealous! Iceland is on my bucket list! This chocolate pudding looks amazing!
You should definitely try to make it there soon!
Oh my, what a rich and luscious pudding Icelandic porridge that is . Hope you had a wonderful trip to Iceland – thanks for sharing this traditional dish from the region.
It was so fantastic. I definitely recommend you going to Iceland!
I am eager to go to Iceland. My cousin went and his photos were incredible! I can’t wait to try this dessert.
Definitely make this one – you wont be sorry!
Such a lovely chocolatey porridge to start the day. Dark chocolate is good for health and I wouldn’t mind having it in the form of a porridge often.
right isn’t it wonderful to start the day with chocolate!
What a great idea to add chocolate to porridge. I am sure it would be like eating dessert for breakfast. Yum!!
Absolutely – but who said you can’t have it for dessert also!
Wow you already started making Icelandic Dish. The porridge looks super tempting and specially in the cup served. Beautiful one.
Yes I wasted no time right ??
thank you – yep I didn’t waste any time!
I’ve only had porridge a few times, but I’ve always enjoyed it. I wonder if the chocolate would take it up a notch higher in the flavor profile?!
yes chocolate porridge can go two ways – either breakfast or dessert!
Can’t I’ve ever thought to have chocolate and porridge together! I would have loved to have visited the 7th generation farm. That would have been so interesting. Bet you learnt a lot!
Yes the farm was such a fantastic experience. I definitely recommend it when you make it to Iceland!
Iceland has been on my list of places to go to for some time now. It’s so good to get a peek into homestyle Icelandic cooking. This chocolate porridge sounds amazing, I know my daughter would be beside herself if I put chocolate in her porridge! I’ll have to surprise her with this. Thank you for sharing it x
You should definitely plan a trip to Iceland. I had a great time. Be sure to check out my travel Iceland posts to help you in your planning!
I totally love this recipe. Add a little peanut butter and you have a whole lotta love to give! Thanks Chef for a great recipe.
great idea to add peanut butter for an extra protein punch!
I am a big fan of any way that I get to start the day with porridge.
I couldn’t agree more!
This is porridge goals!! Can’t wait to try the recipe 🙂
ha ha – porridge goals sounds like a great plan to me!
Love the combo of chocolate and porridge. what a great treat!
Isn’t it though? Loving Icelandic cuisine!
I have never had porridge before, but this looks heavenly! My husband is a huge chocolate lover. He will go crazy over this. I can’t wait to try making this.
are you kidding me? I grew up with porridge (Caribbean parents) You should definitely look into trying more porridge 😉
Very different porridge recipe. It is a kids delight. They will enjoy it happily. I guess we can even have it as a dessert too.
Wow! Such a delicious and thick porridge! I will love to have the Chocolate and porridge any day! This made such a yum breakfast and dessert too.
Lovely chocolate porridge, my children can have this any time. It makes a good breakfast.
Lovely porridge and that too with my favorite chocolate. I am going to try this for my kids.
This is sooooo not traditional Icelandic breakfast!!! I’m Icelandic and porridge with raiso and haggis is more traditional though today kids don’t really like the haggis in it but this is sooooo not Icelandic breakfast in any form!!!
As I mentioned in this post, this recipe was adapted from an Icelandic cookbook I purchased when I visited. The author is Icelandic so perhaps it is a regional recipe or one that has gone out of mode in recent years. As with any culture, recipes vary from region to region and from family to family.