Receita de Mousse de maracujá (Passion fruit mousse -- eggless recipe)

Another exotic sounding recipe, yet a very simple one. This dessert recipe was suggested by a facebook friend Madhusmita. She is the last person whom I would expect to get a dessert recipe from ........ :) A very talented, beautiful lady who is my fitness role model  - I have got information about the right kind of food and the right exercises to get that coveted dress size, flawless skin or correct muscle tone over the years that I know her...since the old "orkut" days, I have never heard her advocating any dessert except for that one occasion where she praised this recipe and the one she herself learnt from her Brazilian friend.

It is a very tasty, not so sweet with hint of citrus flavors and crunch of the passion fruit seeds, and the best part is you just mix it up and chill in the refrigerator and you have a large batch ready in minutes for a large party. You can make it in a glass bowl/bundt pan and slice it up in individual portions or serve it in decorative glasses and stemware.

Ingredients:

• 6-9 passion fruits
• 1 can (375 gm) condensed milk
• 1 cup of cream
• 1/2 cup water 
• 1 sachet unflavored gelatin
• 2 tsp sugar

Recipe:

• Cut about 6 passion fruits in half and remove the pulp with a spoon in a cup. You need about 1 cup(200 ml) of the juice. 

• Chill the bowl and the blades of the cake whisk for about 15 minutes before you start. Take cream in the chilled bowl. Add 2 tsp sugar in the cream and whisk the cream at medium speed till you get stiff peaks. Keep that aside.(in a refrigerator)

• Heat water in microwave till it is warm(not hot). Dissolve a pack of gelatin in the warm water. Keep it aside.

• Add condensed milk to the whipped cream and mix it well. 

• Add the passion fruit pulp and the water with dissolved gelatin in it.
• Mix it really well.

• Pour into serving bowl, or individual bowls/stemware.
• Garnish with more passion fruit pulp and mint leaves.
• Chill for about 2 hours before serving. 

Quantity:

•  Makes about 10 servings. I put about 3 tbsp in 5 of the glasses and about 3.5-4 tbsp in 5 of the glasses.
• I think 2 tbsp serving is quite filling after a party meal. So I guess this quantity can also be made to about 15 serving portions (of 2 tbsps each) 

Notes:

• You can strain out the passion fruit seeds thru' a sieve.
• You can garnish with any other fruit too.
• If you make it in a cake tin, you can invert it in a serving dish and serve in sliced squares /slices.
• I think you can make the same dessert with strawberry, raspberry, mango, maybe lemon too..( I will update this space when I try out with some other fruits )

I made this dessert for our anniversary. I have a tradition of making something new just before or on the day of our anniversary for my family ...:) Earlier my husband has eaten something like a stack of pancakes masquerading as cake.. or cake as hard as a cookie or uncooked/sticky in the middle ... but, experience of years of trials, now I get good results even if I try a new recipe. This years trial is a very amazing recipe which is a keeper ...:) Hope you like it too....!!