Apples accompany us all our lives, especially in recent years, when you can buy them all 365 days a year. Given the affordable prices, they are available every day. Here we will not once again talk about the benefits of these fruits, everyone already knows about it. We will say that there are few such products that have so many options for preparing various dishes. One of them is apple mousse, carefully beaten, airy fruits with or without various additives, very much loved not only by children but also by adults.
The recipe for mousse "Benedictine"
As we know, apples are perfectly combined with many other products, such as seafood, game, poultry, pork, beef. But still, any dessert prepared even with a minimal amount of this fruit will be better and more refined. So now we’ll tell you one of the simplest recipes for how to make apple mousse. To do this, we need the following ingredients: one kilogram of small apples, the juice of one lemon, four egg whites, 120 grams of powdered sugar, three tablespoons of Benedictine liqueur. As you understand, the name of the mousse comes from the name of liquor. And now we offer a way to get a delicious apple mousse. Recipe for cooking, step by step, in front of you:
- Wash the fruits, peel, divide into four parts and remove the core. Put in a large pan, pour half a liter of water and cook for 20 minutes. After the apples have become soft, remove from heat and discard in a colander.
- Grind boiled fruits to a state of mashed potatoes and put them in a saucepan, preferably deep, put on a small fire and dry for seven minutes. Then add the icing sugar, whisk the mixture with a whisk and remove from heat. Let it cool.
- Squeeze the juice from the lemon. We put lump sugar in a pan, fill half a glass of water and put on a small fire. After whitening the syrup, add the lemon juice, stir and pour the resulting caramel into molds.
- Beat the squirrels in a lush foam and add the cooled apple puree to it. Now pour the liquor and mix very carefully.
- The mousse is laid out in forms, put in a deep baking tray filled by a third and sent to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. We cook for 40 minutes, after which we take out the baking sheet and, after cooling down, remove the mousse from the molds. Done!
A complex but delicious recipe for a delicate apple mousse
In this recipe, we add, in addition to apples, cookies, dried fruits and seasonal strawberries. It turns out not just delicious, but also satisfying. In order to prepare this apple mousse, we need: 400 grams of Golden apples, 50 grams of butter, two tablespoons of brown sugar, eight grams of vanilla, 40 ml of brandy, 10 pieces of walnuts, 200 ml of 35% cream, 70 grams condensed milk, 50 grams of pitted prunes, four little lemon balm, half a lemon, 150 grams of strawberries, the same number of shortbread cookies.
For cookies: 90 grams of butter, 90 grams of granulated sugar, 125 grams of flour, a quarter teaspoon of salt. Cookies, by the way, can be bought at the store and are pretty good, but we will do it ourselves.
Cooking your own cookies for mousse
The ingredients for the cookie recipe were given above. It remains only to turn them into a ready-made dish, and only then we will continue to make apple mousse. Beat the mixer with sugar and butter until a light, light mass is obtained. After that, reduce its speed and add salt along with flour. We lay out the resulting dough on a food film, form a rectangle two centimeters thick, wrap it in a refrigerator for two hours. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Meanwhile, we spread the dough on baking paper and roll it thinly to a thickness of five millimeters. We do it through the film. Again for 15 minutes in the refrigerator. Then remove the film, and transfer the dough on paper to a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown. Cut the cake into pieces with a sharp knife, not allowing it to cool completely. Cookies are ready, continue cooking apple mousse.
The last step in making apple mousse
Peel the fruit from the skin, chop finely, removing the seeds. Put them in a pan, add butter, cognac and both types of sugar. Make medium heat and simmer apples until soft. Grind until mashed and cool. Fry nuts in a dry skillet. Beat nuts into the air mass and carefully add the condensed milk into it, then put in the refrigerator. Finely chop the lemon balm and prunes, squeeze the juice from the lemon. Now add the juice from the lemon, lemon balm and prunes to the cooled puree.
We chop nuts, chop the cookies, cut the strawberries into four parts. We went to the finish line. Put a few nuts and cookies in the cups, then apple puree and strawberries. Then - again nuts with cookies. Top - a layer of whipped cream. Once again, sprinkle with nuts and cookies and finish the decoration - strawberries and lemon balm. Done! We have prepared a very difficult apple mousse, the recipe is fully completed. The result is worthy.
Cooking apple mousse with semolina, ingredients
What is the point of adding semolina to the recipe ? The fact that such a dish is obtained by the consistency of a higher density. Thanks to the inclusion of semolina, the finished dessert perfectly holds the shape we need and does not need to add gelatin to it. Therefore, vegetarians can safely eat such mousse.
Necessary ingredients for a small portion: three apples, two tablespoons of granulated sugar, two to three slices of lemon, two tablespoons of semolina, vanilla to taste. And now we’ll show you how to make apple mousse on semolina. There is nothing particularly complicated about this.
The process of making mousse on semolina
As a standard, we clean apples from the skin and seeds, cut into large pieces and boil in sweetened water until soft. If we want the fruits to not turn yellow and the dish itself does not lose its aesthetic appearance, then do not forget to add a couple of cloves of any citrus fruit or some lemon juice to the water. Using a blender, we turn soft fruits into mashed potatoes. You can also use a meat grinder or a sieve for this.
Add five tablespoons of the liquid, the one in which the apples were cooked, send again to the fire. At this stage, we interfere the semolina and for five to seven minutes, until thickened, cook. Then we put the container with mousse in a bowl with ice and actively whisk with a whisk or mixer. Thanks to this, the dessert will receive a good dose of oxygen and become a delicate texture. Pour into glasses and can be served immediately. Apple mousse on semolina is ready.
Cooking apple mousse with gelatin, ingredients
Now we offer a recipe for how to make apple mousse with gelatin. As we already know, in order to prepare such a dish, they use fruit purees, dried berries and fruits, jam or jams. Beating them with a mixer or whisk, we get a treat with a foamy, delicate texture. In order to keep the shape of the dish better, semolina or gelatin is added to it. We will now use the first option. We need: fresh apples - 250 grams, gelatin - 15 grams, granulated sugar - three quarters of a glass, pestle, gauze and various utensils, which, as implied, you have.
The process of making mousse with gelatin
We start making apple mousse. The gelatin recipe is as follows, step by step:
- Soak gelatin in boiled cold water. Let it swell for about 30 minutes. Then pour into the bucket and put on fire. Constantly stirring, dissolve the gelatin completely. In this case, bring to a boil is not necessary.
- Pour the apples prepared as standard with boiling water and send to the stove. Cook until soft and drain the juice into a saucepan through a sieve. Wipe the puree through the same sieve into another container.
- We put the pan with the drained juice on the stove, add sugar and bring to a boil, then pour in the gelatin and mashed apples. Stir the resulting mass and let cool.
- After cooling the mass, beat it with a mixer or whisk, pour into molds and put in the refrigerator. We hope you now know well how to make apple mousse.
Sugar-free apple mousse
This option is well suited for those who restrict their sugar intake and love baked apples. You can use fallen fruits, a dish with them will be even tastier. Ingredients: two kilograms of apples, one cinnamon stick, two cloves, a little nutmeg. As you can see, the components of the recipe are very few. Now we’ll show you how to make sugar-free apple mousse. We cook fruits, cut into pieces and put in any heat-resistant dishes. We do not use aluminum, it is possible - cast iron or clay. Add seasonings. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees and send our dishes with apples to it. Bake until the dish becomes the color of caramel. It is advisable to mix during baking three times. Then we extract cloves and cinnamon from the mousse. Further - at its discretion. You can immediately eat everything, but you can put it in banks and roll it up. With the latter option, in winter, the mass will be an excellent addition to a loaf or bread, dough, pies. Also just with tea, along with a croissant or fragrant bun. Enjoy your meal!