Terre Exotique Tonka Beans (Fève Tonka) 500g
Terre Exotique Tonka Beans (Fève Tonka) 500g
Terre Exotique
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Terre Exotique Tonka Beans (Fève Tonka)
The tonka bean selected by Terre Exotique enhances sweet and savory recipes with its Amazonian aromas. Tonka beans offer captivating notes of sweet almond, vanilla, caramel and even coffee, with a smooth, warm flavor and a subtle bitterness reminiscent of cocoa. Terre Exotique Tonka beans are very mild and not spicy.
Tonka beans contain coumarin. In high doses, coumarin can be harmful to health. The tolerable daily intake should be less than 4.8 mg per day for a 60 kg adult.
Use with care: the flavor of tonka beans tends to intensify upon cooling. Grate it like nutmeg to enhance your dishes, then taste and adjust.
Tonka beans can be used in compotes, creamy desserts, with chocolate, in pumpkin or butternut squash soups, or even with sweet potatoes. Grate finely (as you would nutmeg), or infuse into dairy or syrups, then strain.
Chef tip: Start small. The aroma builds and becomes more pronounced as preparations cool.
- Tonka bean yogurt: see Terre Exotique recipe link on their site
- Creamy chocolate & tonka tart: heat milk + cream + butter with ½ grated tonka bean
- Chocolate mousse: grate ½ tonka bean into mousse before chilling
- Apple/pear compote: grate ½ tonka bean while cooking
- Butternut squash soup: grate ½ tonka bean while vegetables cook
- Cane sugar infusion: infuse 2 tonka beans in 1 kg sugar for a few days
- Pan-fried prawns: grate ½ tonka bean over prawns before cooking
- Scallop carpaccio: use grated tonka bean as an aromatic accent
- Veal medallions with cream: add ½ grated tonka bean to the cream
The tonka bean is found in the Amazon rainforest, nestled inside the fruit of trees in the Fabaceae family, more specifically Dipteryx odorata (also called “Coumarou”). These giant trees can reach up to 30 meters and thrive in warm tropical climates with fertile, humus-rich soils.
The ripe fruits fall to the ground and are collected by villagers. The kernels are extracted from the pit and dried for several days to obtain the tonka bean. It takes approximately 600 fruits (or 10 kg of fruit) to produce 1 kg of dried tonka beans.
In Brazil, tonka beans (also called “cumaru”) are traditionally used for medicinal purposes and in candles, incense, perfumery and tobacco. In perfumery, its sweet fragrance has been used since the late 19th century, and it remains a signature note in classic fragrances.
Allergen: Absence
Country of Origin: BRAZIL
Botanical Genus & Species: Dipteryx odorata
Ingredients: tonka bean, coumarin level between 1 and 4%.
Possible Traces of Allergens: celery, sesame, mustard, nuts.
Energy: 2197 kJ / 525 kcal
Fat: 36.3 g
of which saturates: 25.9 g
Carbohydrate: 49.3 g
of which sugars: 28.5 g
Protein: 5.8 g
Salt: 0.01 g
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