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
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
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
waiting time approx. 4 hours