Classic dessert: semolina mousse. Four simple recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Mousse (translated from French - "foam") is a sweet airy dessert based on berry or fruit juices, coffee, grape wine, etc. Special additives give it a stable airy texture: agar-agar, gelatin, semolina, etc. For sweetness, sugar syrup, honey are added to the dish.

Semolina mousse is successfully used in the children's menu. Little and adult sweet tooth will never recognize such "nasty" semolina porridge in the taste of their favorite delicacy.

How to make magic semolina mousse?

Mousse: cranberry and semolina

Cranberry mousse with semolina is a beautiful, tasty and he althy dessert. For its preparation you will need:

• water - five glasses;
• semolina - one glass;
• granulated sugar - one and a half glasses (less);
• honey - four tablespoons;
• fresh or frozen cranberries - 400 grams.

Sort fresh cranberries, rinse under running water, dry.

Put the berries in a saucepan, mash them with a masher (preferably a wooden one).

Put the resulting cranberry puree into cheesecloth, squeeze the juice into a separate container, put it in the refrigerator.

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Transfer the cake remaining in gauze into a container, pour boiling water over it. Bring the cake with water to a boil, then continue to cook over low heat for about 7 minutes.

Pass the resulting cranberry broth through gauze or a fine sieve, add honey. Mix everything well (the honey should dissolve completely), add granulated sugar, put on fire, bring to a boil.

Into the boiling syrup, stirring constantly, add semolina in a thin stream, continue to cook, stirring constantly, for another 20 minutes. You will get semolina porridge without lumps.

Remove the pot with porridge from the heat, pour the previously squeezed cranberry juice into it, beat with a mixer until a light pink homogeneous airy mass.

Spread the dessert in portions, put in the refrigerator to harden.

Chilled semolina mousse served with berries, whipped cream or milk.

Mousse: apple juice and semolina

Semolina mousse, the recipe of which is offered below, is prepared on the basis of apple juice. This dessert was extremely popular in Estonia in Soviet times.

Making apple juice semolina mousse is very easy and tastes like ice cream. It is hard to guess that semolina is present in the dessert.

The following items are required for cooking:

• semolina - 1 cup;
• juice (apple) - 1.5 liters;
• milk - 1 liter.

Pour juice into a saucepan, put on fire, bring to a boil. Pour into boiling juice, stirring constantly, in a thin streamsemolina. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until tender (10 or 15 minutes).

Remove the pot from heat, cool the porridge completely. Then beat the mousse with a mixer. The dessert should turn out to be airy, as if filled with small air bubbles.

Spread the mousse in portions, cool, serve with milk.

Semolina mousse, the recipe of which is given above, can be prepared with different juices, add granulated sugar or honey to taste.

Berry compote and semolina mousse

From compote and semolina you can cook a great dessert that will appeal to both young children and adult uncles and aunts.

All you need to do is cook semolina porridge on delicious (it's a must!) compote.

Required products:

• compote - one glass;
• semolina - three tablespoons (tablespoons);
• water - two glasses;
• granulated sugar - to taste.

Cook a delicious compote of berries or fruits, cool. Strain liquid through cheesecloth or strainer.

Take one glass of compote, add two glasses of water. Pour the diluted compote into a saucepan, put on fire, bring to a boil, pour in, stirring constantly, a thin stream of semolina and, without ceasing to stir, cook until the porridge is ready for about 10 minutes.

Cool the resulting berry porridge completely. Then beat the mousse with a mixer. It should turn out airy, light, similar to foam. Arrange the dessert in portions, put in the refrigerator. The mousse will thicken and resemble popsicles.

Fordessert, you can use any berries and fruits.

Chocolate mousse

Chocolate semolina mousse is a real holiday dessert that can decorate the table at a children's party or be a worthy end to a Saturday dinner.

To make it you need:

• milk - one liter;
• chocolate - one bar (100 grams);
• semolina - 100 grams;
• granulated sugar - 150 grams;
• vanilla sugar - one package;
• butter - one tablespoon.

For mousse, be sure to take chocolate (no sweet bars!). It can be anything: milky, bitter… Choose the one you like.

Heat the milk, put the pre-broken chocolate into it (leave two squares for decoration). Mix everything. The chocolate should melt.

Bring milk with chocolate to a boil, in a thin stream, stirring vigorously, add semolina, granulated sugar and vanillin. Continue cooking for another 10 minutes until thickened.

Chocolate semolina porridge off heat, cool completely, add butter.

Beat the mousse well with a mixer until an air mass is obtained.

Spread the dessert into portions and refrigerate for 2, 5 or 3 hours.

Decorate the finished mousse with grated chocolate, berries, nuts or whipped cream.

Conclusion

Preparing a delicious dessert is easy. Using the above recipes, even an inexperienced hostess will be able toTreat your loved ones and friends with delicious and fashionable mousse. And it is not necessary to reveal the secret of what it is made of. Every housewife should have her own little tricks.

Experiment, invent your own variations of dishes, cook with imagination and love.

Bon appetit!