“Food Network” star Giada De Laurentiis shared a TikTok video showing her eating pasta covered with melted chocolate.
The video was viewed more than 174,000 times, but the recipe has divided fans.
“A bowl of pasta topped with a little chocolate. Honestly, nothing is more comforting and more of a hug,” De Laurentiis says in the video before adding, “It’s not the sexiest of dishes.”
She also shared a second video showing two women trying the pasta. That video is captioned, “My team tries my childhood comfort food — pasta with chocolate, just trust me and try it 😉” The two declared that they liked it.
Giada De Laurentiis Said Her Love of Chocolate Pasta Started in Childhood
GettyUS-Italian chef Giada De Laurentiis.De Laurentiis said the chocolate pasta is something her mom made her as a kid.
“This started when I was a kid,” she says in the TikTok video.
“My mom used to do it with Nutella or chocolate chips or whatever,” the “Food Network” star says.
She said she also had chocolate sandwiches for breakfast, adding that, as a result, “I don’t think it’s that weird.”
People commented on the thread, “I tried that the other day and thought it tasted exactly like a nutella crepeee tooo,” wrote one person.
However, another person wrote, “I love u forever but idk about chocolate pasta ❤️”
Wrote another fan, “If Giada says to eat pasta with chocolate… we eat pasta with chocolate!!” However, another fan had a different reaction, writing, “Giada, I love you like cooked food but this is a bridge too far😭”
Another fan noted in De Laurentiis’s comment thread, “I’d try it!!! We eat chocolate covered starch every time that we have a chocolate covered pretzel, chocolate covered Pringle, etc.!!!” However, other people indicated that they thought at first that De Laurentiis was eating snails.
“Pasta and Chocolate? What rock have I been living under?” a person wrote.
Giada De Laurentiis Added Grated Italian Chocolate in Place of Parmesan Cheese
GettyChef Giada De Laurentiis.De Laurentiis showed fans how to make the dish during the TikTok video. She put pasta in a bowl and then took a spoonful of chocolate. She mixed it up.
She then added some Italian chocolate. “These I used to have as a kid all of the time,” she said, grating it on the pasta “like parmesan cheese.”
“You mix it all together and then, life is so good,” she said in the video.
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