Mousse au Chocolat on pomegranate puree

AUTHOR
Melissa Olsen
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 2 small pomegranates
  • 5 TABLESPOONS Cranberry juice
  • 1/2 TEASPOON Cornstarch
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Sugar
  • 1 red chilli pepper
  • 150 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 1 fresh egg (size M)
  • 200 g Whipped cream
  • 7-10 Tbsp Chili Flakes

Directions

  1. 1

    For the compote, cut the pomegranates in half lengthwise. Squeeze one half with a lemon squeezer. Fill up pomegranate juice with cranberry juice to 75 ml. Remove the seeds from the other halves, removing the white separating skins. Stir starch and 2 tbsp. juice until smooth. Bring the remaining juice and 1 tbsp. sugar to the boil, stir in the starch and simmer for about 1 minute. Let the juice cool down. Add seeds and let cool completely

  2. 2

    For the mousse, cut the chilli pepper lengthwise, remove the seeds and chop the pepper finely. Coarsely chop the chocolate coating and melt over a warm water bath. Remove from the stove and let it cool down a little. Beat the egg and 2 tbsp. sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy. Whip the cream with the whisks of the hand mixer until stiff

  3. 3

    Stir the couverture and 1/3 of the cream into the egg mixture and finally loosely fold in the remaining cream. Put the mousse and pomegranate compote, except for something to decorate, into 4 dessert glasses and chill for about 4 hours. Decorate chocolate mousse with remaining compote and chili flakes

  4. 4

    waiting time approx. 4 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
460 kcal
CARBS
41 g
FATS
31 g
PROTEINS
6 g

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Dessert