Showing posts with label cold dessert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold dessert. Show all posts

Monday, April 7, 2014

Melon Salad


The first time I've heard about this melon salad was during my diploma. I have to look for a few dishes from South Africa and this melon salad was one of the recipes for their dessert. They were easy to make and absolute refreshing treat to have during summer. The original recipe I found in the internet years ago contains some alcoholic drinks. But I'm not drinking. So I've altered the recipe a bit to my liking and convenience.

To make this melon salad, you need is a few types of melons. Watermelon and honeydew are two of my favorite melon to use. But you can always use the yellow melon, rock melon, sunlady melon, any melon that you like. 

The fun part was to scoop the melon with a melon baller. Then you will need some mint leaves, lemon juice (or orange, or lime) and just a little bit of plain syrup (or mint syrup). Toss the ingredients together and there... You have it. Store them in a container for a night before consuming for a better result.


Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Chocolate Mousse


My friend asked me if I could make chocolate mousse. I know that I've made them when I prepared the Sarawak Layered Cake Charlotte years ago. This mousse recipe I contain gelatin powder.

Remember this?
So, while I browsed through some recipe books and some on the internet, I found a lot of  recipes that used meringue, and no gelatin powder. I decided to make a little experiment by combining in a little bit of this and that.

Chocolate Mousse

150 g Chocolate - dark chocolate, bittersweet - cut into small pieces
200ml whipping cream
50g castor sugar
2 egg yolks
2 egg white

  1. Melt chocolate in double boiler. Leave it cool to room temperature. Use the high quality chocolate for a tastier result.
  2. Whipped cream with 10g of sugar until peak.
  3. Beat egg yolk in another bowl with another 10g of sugar until foamed.
  4. Whisked egg white in another bowl with the remaining sugar.
  5. Using a spatula, fold in egg yolk into the chocolate. Then, fold in whipped cream followed by egg white.
  6. Spoon the chocolate mixture into ramekins.
  7. Keep refrigerated overnight.
  8. Serve mousse with whipped cream. You may decorate with chocolate powder, chocolate rice or serve it plain.

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