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Jordi Roca stars in a new episode of his series ‘COSAS DE CASA‘, but this time he does it with his friend, chef and teacher Oriol Blanes, with whom he cooks a recipe they made at school when they studied together, and which has a nostalgic background. That of recovering ‘a precious documentary’ they made years ago called ‘El Sentido del Cacao’, while paying tribute to their teacher at the school of Hosteleria i Turisme de Girona, Manel Romero.
‘El Sentido del Cacao’ is a documentary journey undertaken by Jordi Roca and BBVA as part of the ‘Creating Opportunities’ purpose. A pioneering research in neuroscience, gastrophysics and sensory management that developed together with experts from CSIC, Fundación Cerebro or Red Olfativa, among others, aims to draw attention to a problem that affects 17% of the population and that almost nobody knows about’. In it, Roca, motivated by his friend Oriol who has lost his sense of taste, joins the bank to develop this project to recover the memory of taste to a group of people through cocoa.
In the video-tutorial they start by cutting the mango, which they season with fennel, thyme and rosemary. Then, they add a few pieces of butter, and put it in the oven wrapped in albal paper at 180 degrees. After about 15 minutes, remove it and grate a little lime and pistachio on top. The final touch is added with a little mango ice cream to generate that infallible hot-cold contrast.
