Raspberry - a berry is very tasty and healthy. With great success it is used in medicine, cosmetology. Both adults and children love to enjoy this berry. A little about the taste: the berry is juicy, soft, sweet and sour. From raspberries you can cook excellent quality compotes, juices, preserves, jams, marmalade, jelly. Widely used raspberries and for the preparation of various desserts in the confectionery business. Mousse from this berry is especially popular. Raspberry mousse is an unusually tasty light dessert, its advantages can be considered quite low calorie content, ease of preparation.
Cooking method
Raspberries should be sorted out, rinse well. Then grind in a blender or pass through a sieve. Take a small amount of water and soak the gelatin in it until completely dissolved. Proteins to separate from the yolks. Add sugar and starch to the yolks and beat until a strong foam. This mixture should be placed in a water bath and, continuing to beat, pour hot milk into a thin stream. Cook this mixture for 30 minutes.
Then beat the whites until a strong foam and add to the prepared milk mixture. After this, gelatin should be introduced, mixed and put in the refrigerator. When the mixture has cooled, add raspberry puree, mix and put in the refrigerator again. After a quarter of an hour, combine the whipped cream with the finished mass, divide into portions and cool the raspberry mousse in the refrigerator for about an hour. Before serving, mousse, if desired, can be decorated with fresh mint leaves, berries and whipped cream. Tea or coffee is good for dessert.
Raspberry Mousse Recipe
You should consider the raspberry dessert recipe, which is always airy and tender, and also quickly and easily cooked. This dessert can be prepared at different times of the year: in summer, you can use fresh berries, and in winter - frozen, this will not affect the taste of raspberry mousse.
For cooking, take the following ingredients:
- raspberries - 360 g;
- gelatin - 20 g;
- orange juice - 75 ml;
- cream 33% - 150 ml;
- granulated sugar - 90 g;
- 1 egg white
- almonds - 30 g.
First of all, you should rinse the raspberries, chop them thoroughly in a blender or pass through a sieve. Pour 75 milliliters of water into a small container, add sugar and cook until it dissolves. Combine raspberry puree with sugar syrup. In a small bowl, soak the gelatin in orange juice for a couple of hours to swell, after 2 hours we put this container on low heat. It is important that the gelatin dissolves completely. Please note: do not bring the mixture to a boil.
After that, you need to mix gelatin with raspberry puree, the resulting mass should be slightly cooled. Introduce whipped cream first into the chilled mixture, mix gently and add whipped protein. Arrange raspberry mousse in portions and place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. To decorate the dessert, use almond nuts, raspberries and whipped cream.
Raspberry Mousse with Chocolate
You can make mousse with a more refined taste, adding chocolate. Consider a recipe for raspberry mousse with white chocolate.
To prepare for this recipe, take the following ingredients:
For mashed potatoes:
- sugar - 30 g;
- raspberries - 200 g.
For mousse:
- white chocolate - 65 g;
- protein of 1 egg;
- cream from 33% - 200 ml;
- granulated sugar - 50 g;
- gelatin - 4 g;
- pink water - 5 ml;
- water - 30 ml.
Add water to the gelatin and leave to swell. Mix raspberries and granulated sugar, bring to a boil over low heat. Then pass the resulting mass through a sieve and cool to room temperature. Melt chocolate and mix with raspberry puree, both products must be at the same temperature. Gently mix the raspberry mousse mass and add gelatin and rose water to it. Add the granulated sugar to the egg white and put in a water bath. With continuous whipping, warm the mixture to 60 degrees, then beat to a soft foam, add whipped protein to the raspberry-chocolate mixture. Beat cream and combine with the main mass. Arrange in a bowl and garnish with berries and sprigs of mint.
Raspberry Mousse: Cake Recipe
Berry mousses can be used not only as a dessert, they are used with great success to fill cakes. For this mousse should take the following products:
- raspberries - 285 g;
- sugar - 90 g;
- gelatin - 15 g;
- fat cream - 600 ml;
- icing sugar - 150 g.
First, prepare raspberry puree, add sugar to it and simmer on low heat to a jam. In the finished mass of raspberries, we introduce gelatin and lemon juice, put on low heat, when stirring, bring the mass to complete dissolution of the gelatin. Remove the finished mixture from the heat and cool a little. Whip the cream with icing sugar until lush foam and add to the chilled raspberry mixture. Raspberry mousse for the cake is ready.