Chestnut and chocolate cream 260g (chestnuts from Calizzano, Slow Food Presidium)

The chestnut and chocolate cream from Ca di Voi is something exceptional: it is not the usual chocolate cream, but a perfect, unprecedented combination. Beautifully full-bodied, one is almost tempted to eat it like this by the spoonful from the jar as if it were pudding. The flavour is balanced, sweet just right.

The dried chestnuts of Calizzano and Murialdo are a Slow Food presidium, because they are still processed according to the traditional local method, which involves drying them inside the ‘tecci’, the typical stone drying kilns of the Upper Bormida Valley, in which the wood is burnt: the fire dries naturally with the heat, leaving the chestnuts with a pleasant toasted and slightly smoky note.