Salad Themed Month: Fruit salads … and water chocolate mousse

Summer is arrived and I don’t have nothing to wear appropriate to these days’ temperature. I threw almost all t-shirts I had to buy sweaters for our Germany life.

Wrong! Now I have to steal t-shirts from my sister wardrobe.

Usually the hot temperature doesn’t stop me from baking and baking, but this time I felt too lazy to fight the sultriness, plus it was salad month, so I surrended to fruit salads.

In our family the fruit salad eater is my father, I’m not a big fan of this kind of dessert: if there’s not butter or egg involved we are not talking about dessert, point.

But this was the salad themed month so I had to give them a chance and, because I promised you to try a different chocolate mousse recipe every month, I’m going to post a chocolate mousse recipe too, without eggs, butter and dairy products, to fit the healty mood of this month…try it with my fruit salad recipe, delicious…

Berries fruit salad:

-120 g mixed red fruits

-juice from 1 orange

-3 tbsp sugar

-1 1/2 tsp rose water

Mix everything together and let it rest into your refrigerator for about 1 hour before serving.

Exotic fruit salad:

-1 kiwi chopped

-1 banana chopped

-1/2 mango chopped

-juice of 2 limes

-2 tsp honey

-lime zests

-2 tbsp coconut milk

-yogurt to taste

Mix everything together and let it rest into your refrigerator for about 1 hour before serving.

Classic fruit salad:

-5 strawberries chopped

-2 small peaches chopped

-1 orange (juice and pulp)

-1/4 beetroot chopped

-1 tbsp fresh mint chopped

-3 tsp sugar

Mix everything together and let it rest into your refrigerator for about 1 hour before serving.

Water chocolate mousse:

-100 g melted dark chocolate (60%)

-45 g pomegranate juice

-50 g water

-2 tsp honey

Bring water, honey and pomegranate juice to a boil.

Mix chocolate and liquids until smooth. Place the mixture in your refrigerator for about 20 minutes.

Fill a bowl with water and ice then place your bowl filled with chocolate mixture into it.

Whip the mixture with a hand mixer until pale and fluffy.

If you like a less stiff mousse you can add more hot water. If you prefer you can use another flavored liquid such as tea or orange juice or coffee or even just water.

I tried to add some fat to it, but it didn’t work.

For the next month I have more ideas for vegan chocolate mousse, so stay tuned. ^_^

Enjoy!!!!!