Curd mousse: description and cooking rules

The original dessert called "mousse" was invented by the French. They also developed several interesting recipes and methods for its preparation. Curd mousse is one of the most popular options for this treat. And besides a gentle and pleasant taste, it is also very useful.

A simple culinary secret

As you know, any mousse consists of three main components:

1. Aromatic base (fruits, cocoa, mashed potatoes, wine and others).
2. Fillers that give the dish a sweet taste (sugar, honey, molasses).
3. Food supplement for fixing the foamy state of the mixture.

Curd mousse in this sense is no exception. Whatever the recipe was used for its preparation, all of the listed ingredients are necessarily present there. It should be noted that curd mousse can be made using different food fixatives. There are only three of them:

1. Agar.
2. Egg white.
3. Gelatin.

Depending on this, the method of manufacturing the product also changes. For example, there is a very simple option when the curd mousse is created on the basis of agar.

The product can be easily and quickly made at home. To do this, you only need: 250 grams of cottage cheese, a pack (125 grams) of marshmallow and 150 grams of sour cream.

Everything is prepared in several stages:

1. First you need to beat sour cream with a mixer so that it turns into a lush mixture.
2. Grind the marshmallows.
3. Combine the components and turn them into a homogeneous mass using a submersible blender.
4. Beat the resulting product well with a mixer.
5. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for about 3-4 hours. And every hour it must be removed and re-whipped.

After that, the finished product can be transferred to portioned dishes and consumed at any time.

Coffee Dessert

How else can you make curd mousse? The coffee recipe is especially suitable for meeting guests.

To prepare it, you will need the following products: for 250 grams of dry cottage cheese - 100 grams of sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla extract, 50 milliliters of coffee liquor and milk, 2 egg whites and 2 teaspoons of instant coffee.

The cooking process is very simple:

1. Rub the cottage cheese (if it is coarse-grained) through a sieve.
2. Heat the milk a little and dilute the coffee in it.
3. Beat all products, with the exception of eggs, with a mixer.
4. Separately, turn the proteins into foam, and then gradually introduce them into the total mass. It is better to do this in small parts so that the mass does not begin to settle. Abrupt combination of products can destroy the foam, which is highly undesirable.

It will turn out a very aromatic curd mousse, the recipe of which is easy to remember. The tender mass can only be decomposed into bowls and held for 40 minutes in the refrigerator. After that, the dish can be decorated as you wish.

Milk and berry treat

Curd mousse with gelatin is equally tasty. For example, it is better to consider a recipe that uses the following ingredients: 400 grams of berries, half a kilogram of cottage cheese, 30 grams of gelatin, half a glass of brown sugar, 400 milliliters of cream and half a glass of water.

Such a dish is prepared as follows:

1. First, the curd must be wiped thoroughly through a sieve, and then pour it with a small amount of water.
2. Heat a portion of the cream (100 milliliters) with sugar and stir until it dissolves. Add gelatin to the mixture.
3. First, cool the remaining cream, and then beat well.
4. Mix the cottage cheese with a mixer, and then add the cream with gelatin.
5. Add whipped cream to the resulting mass.
6. Put fresh berries at the bottom of the mold, and then pour them with the prepared mixture. Prefabricate to refrigerate overnight.

The next morning you can get the product, transfer it to a dish and serve it, having previously cut into portions.

Significant addition

Confectioners sometimes use cottage cheese mousse for a cake. As a vivid example, we can consider the option when the foamed product successfully complements the biscuit dessert option.

For cooking, you will need many different components.

For biscuit: 3 eggs, 80 grams of flour, 4 tablespoons of sugar and 30 grams of starch.

For mousse: 0.5 kilograms of cottage cheese, 500 milliliters of cream, 2 eggs, 100 grams of sugar, 30 grams of gelatin and half a glass of boiled water.

For decoration: 1 mango, 2 kiwi, a little sugar and fresh strawberries.

Cooking method:

1. Knead the dough from the prepared products and bake a biscuit. Then cut it lengthwise into two parts and coat them with mashed fruit.
2. Using standard technology, prepare air mousse.
3. Cut the fruits into thin slices and arrange them on a biscuit.
4. Gently apply a layer of mousse on top, and then put the cake in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

Before serving, it remains only to decorate the finished product. And for this you can use not only fruits, but also nuts, cocoa or chocolate.