To cook this dessert, first make a mesquite pudding, add chocolate to half of it, then layer in glasses. The flavors complement each other deliciously.
Mesquite trees usually produce pods in June, but they also put out a small crop in autumn. If you can find some or have some left over from earlier, you can make this delicious dessert that combines the luscious flavors of caramel and chocolate. Find the recipe here.
Mesquite is a desert tree that sends down roots so deep that it can make it through even severe droughts. It grows widely throughout the West. Its nutritious pods with an appealing sweet flavor have been used by native desert dwellers in the arid Southwest for thousands of years.