Passion Fruit Mousse (Eggless)

 

I have some passion fruit pulp in my freezer that my Appa gave me on my last vacation in 2019… that was the last batch of passion fruit pulp which he gave me before he passed away… I just kept it in the freezer, untouched all this while, and recently when I missed him a lot, I took it out and made this passion fruit mousse… I still have one huge bottle in the freezer, that I am keeping like a treasure, to use occasionally when I miss him terribly…

This passion fruit mousse is easy to make… you just need a blender or hand mixy… no cooking involved, and it is eggless too… Passion fruit pulp can be added according to taste… 1 cup of the pulp to the mousse will give you a very mild taste of passion fruit. I like the passion fruits tangy flavour a lot, so I ended up adding 1 ⅔ cup of pulp. If you are adding only one cup of pulp you can omit sugar. This mousse has a very creamy consistency. I suggest you set the mousse in individual glasses or ramekins instead of one bowl…

I have tried to take a video while making the mousse and I am attaching the YouTube video with this recipe… since I am not an expert in taking videos there are lot of flaws in it and I am trying hard to improve… I hope it will be helpful to some of you 😊

  

Passion Fruit Mousse

(Recipe adapted from here)

Ingredients

For the mousse:

Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 can (397g)

Heavy cream / whipping cream (cold) - 1 ⅓ cups (290g)

Passion fruit pulp – 1 to 1 ⅔ cup (according to taste)

Gelatin -1 tsp (If you are planning to set the mousse in one large bowl use 2 tsp of gelatin)

Sugar -  ¼ cup (optional, add less or omit if it is sweet enough with the condensed milk)

Water - 3 tbsp

For the Topping:

Pulp of 3 fresh passion fruits, with seeds (about ⅔ cup)

Sugar -  ¼ cup

Method:

• To make Passion fruit pulp, blend the pulp with ¼ cup water for a few minutes and strain through a fine mesh sieve.
• Dissolve gelatin in 3 tbsp water in a small bowl and let it swell for 5 minutes. Microwave the mix for 30 seconds. Cool slightly before using.
• Combine the heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, passion fruit pulp, sugar, and melted gelatin in the blender. Blend for 5 minutes.
• Transfer the mousse to individual glasses or ramekins or to a large serving tray. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours to set.
• Top with the passion fruit sauce and serve. 

To make the topping:

• Combine the fresh passion fruit pulp with seeds and the sugar in a saucepan.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook for two more minutes, until it thickens slightly.
• Let it cool to room temperature and serve with mousse.

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Passionfruit Satin Chiffon Pie

Hi everybody, How are your holiday celebrations coming along? Hope you are all set for Christmas. It’s been a very busy time for the past couple of weeks, hence couldn’t update my blog even though I had a couple of posts already drafted! Son had exams and I got busy with him… Now his school is closed so I may get some time to spend on my blog, hopefully :).... Like every year I made the Christmas Cake, but couldn’t do the icing yet:( .... Today’s recipe is a Passionfruit Pie I tried recently and if you are still thinking of dessert for Christmas or New Year you can try this! If you are a regular reader you know my love for passionfruit by now :P...  So here is another passion fruit recipe to add to my list :)...
For the crust you can either use the Buttery Vanilla Nut Crumb Crust recipe given below or can use vanilla biscuit crust or Ginger Biscuit crust

May this Christmas fill your hearts with warmth, peace and joy!

Merry Christmas from our home to yours! 

Passionfruit Satin Chiffon Pie

Serves -8

Recipe from 365 Great Cakes and Pies

Buttery Vanilla Nut Crumb Crust

Ingredients:

½ cup nuts (can use pecans, walnuts, almonds or cashew nuts)

1 ¼ cups vanilla cookie crumbs

5 tbsp butter, melted

Method: 

• Preheat oven to 350°F / . Arrange nuts on a small cookie sheet. Bake 5 to 7 minutes, or until lightly toasted and fragrant. Cool and finely chop.
• In a medium bowl, combine cookie crumbs and nuts. Stir in butter, tossing until mixture is evenly moistened. Press crumb mixture evenly over bottom and sides of a 9 –inch pie pan. Bake 8-10 mints, or until crumbs are lightly toasted. Cool completely on a wire rack before filling.

Passionfruit Filling:

Ingredients:

10 fresh passionfruit or ½ cup frozen passionfruit puree, thawed

1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

4 large eggs, separated, at room temperature3/4 cup sugar

2 tbsp fresh lime juice

½ tsp grated lime zest

½ cup heavy cream

Whipped cream and passionfruit puree for decoration

Method:

• Cut each fresh passionfruit in half and scoop out pulp and seeds with a spoon. Transfer to a fine sieve set over a bowl; strain pulp through sieve, pressing with back of spoon. Discard seeds. You should have ½ cup passionfruit puree.
• In a cup, sprinkle gelatin over ¼ cup water; let it stand 5 minutes to soften.
• In a medium saucepan, whisk together egg yolks and ½ cup sugar. Whisk in passionfruit puree and lime juice until smooth. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and coats back of a spoon, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in softened gelatin and lime zest until gelatin is completely dissolved. Place the mixture in a larger bowl filled with ice water. Let cool, stirring occasionally, until mixture mounds slightly when dropped from spoon.
• Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat egg whites with an electric mixer to soft peaks. Gradually add remaining ¼ cup sugar. Increase mixer speed and continue to beat until stiff peaks form when beaters are lifted. Remove partially set gelatin mixture from ice water. With a rubber spatula, fold in beaten whites until blended.
• In another bowl, beat cream with an electric mixer until stiff. Fold into passionfruit mixture. Turn filling into Buttery Vanilla Nut Crumb crust. Cover and refrigerate until filling is set, several hours or overnight. Uncover, decorate top with whipped cream, passionfruit puree and lemon zest. 

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Natalia of Gatti Fili e Farina challenges us to make a traditional Savarin, complete with soaking syrup and cream filling! We were to follow the Savarin recipe but were allowed to be creative with the soaking syrup and filling, allowing us to come up with some very delicious cakes!

I made a Mango and Passion Fruit flavored soaking syrup. The glaze was made with mango jam. I served the Savarin with fresh mangoes and vanilla whipped cream. I halved the recipe and used 2 small bundt pans for baking. We all enjoyed the Savarin and thank you Natalia for a great challenge.

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Mango and Passion Fruit Mousse

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Passion Fruit Buttermilk Pound Cake

When I was a kid I  first tasted  it simply mixed with sugar and loved it J … that childhood love affair continued years later and I tried it in different forms like; juice, squash, wine, truffles, puddings and finally in baking, tried it in brownies, bars and now in cakes! Loved Passion Fruit in all it's avatars! Back home Appa has a passion fruit plant in his back yard and he collects the pulp, freezes it and gives it to me saying make juice for his grandkid J….  But poor grandson never gets juice from the pulp that his Appacha lovingly sends him…. because his mom uses it in her exotic cooking :D …  I have adapted this basic cake recipe from Deeba’s blog whose recipes I trust blindly and my experiment with this Passion Fruit Buttermilk Pound Cake was a huge success as this cake tasted delicious the next day!

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Hope you all had a great Easter! Here we also had a great time…. I made this White chocolate mousse with passion fruit from Technicolor Kitchen as our Easter dessert. You must be well aware of my love affair with passion fruit by now J  I was thinking of making this for quite some time and on Easter day I made this and it was really delicious and quick recipe to make… The only difference I did was I made  puree of passion fruit pulp, strained it and made it into a thick sauce because my hubby and son did not want passion fruit seeds in their dessert! I have shared this with my neighbor and they also really loved it!

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Passion Fruit Brownies

A lot of brownies, chocolates and cakes recipes around the blog sphere these days made me crave for some brownies… well to be honest I am not a big brownie fan, but last week I really wanted to have a chocolate and Passion fruit combo…. but was not in a mood to make our favorite Passion Fruit Truffles, wanted to make something quick and easy and brownie came to my mind… did a search on the net for Passion Fruit Brownies and I found this recipe @ Scandilicious… all the ingredients were with me and I baked these awesome brownies in less than one hour! Did little changes in the recipe… I didn’t add the extra egg yolk and also I only added Passion fruit pulp not its seeds as mentioned in the original recipe… These brownies taste best the next day and it was delicious with vanilla ice cream! So if you love dark chocolate and passion fruit you will surely like these brownies J…

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Liliko’i Bars / Passion Fruit Bars

Passion Fruit is known as Liliko'i in Hawaiian.

Liliko’i Bars / Passion Fruit Bars
(Adapted from Dana Zia)

The crust
All purpose flour - 1cup
Powdered sugar - 1/3 cups
Butter ` 1/3 cups

The filling
Eggs- 2
Sugar - 1 cup
All Purpose flour – 3 tbsp
Baking powder – 3/4 tsp
Liliko’i puree or Passion fruit puree - 1/3 cup
Powdered sugar for dusting

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 350F (180C).
• To prepare the crust, whisk the flour and powdered sugar together in a medium bowl.
• Cut the butter into the flour mixture and mix with your finger tips until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• Pat the crust mixture into a 6.5 x 4.5 inch baking pan, making sure to press the crust up the sides of the pan at least halfway.
• Pop it into the oven to bake for 15 minutes, or until the edges just barely start to brown.
• While the crust is baking, whisk the 2 eggs nicely.
• Then whisk in the sugar, 1/2 cup at a time.
• Mix well, add the flour and baking powder by sprinkling it over the egg mixture while whisking.
• Finally mix in the liliko’i/ passion fruit puree and mixing well.
• Pour this luminous filling into the crust and bake for an additional 30-35 minutes till the top is golden brown and when you touch the center it is firm.
• Allow it to cool completely then set in the fridge for a couple of hours to firm up.
• Cut into 1 inch squares or so, and dust with powdered sugar.
• Enjoy!

Sending these bars to Deeba for her event Fruit in Baking, originally started by Meeta.

Also to Champa's Bake-off event.

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Milk chocolate and Passion Fruit Truffles!

I love chocolates and I also love passion fruit! My dad collects fresh passion fruit from his back yard which I convert to puree and carry with me to Kuwait to make juice, wine, pudding etc or even eat fresh mixed with sugar….yummmmy!!! :) Recently when I saw these two in the form of a Truffle in Aran’s blog Cannelle Et Vanille I wanted to make it immediately. All the ingredients except Apricot were with me, so with full confidence I tried this recipe that afternoon. I used Dates instead of Apricot, mixed everything and kept the ganache in the fridge to set. But my ganache never get hard even after keeping it in the fridge overnight. The whole thing looked like mousse. So I rechecked the recipe and found out that I had messed up with the amount of cream and so the truffles ended up as chocolate mousse. Nevertheless it tasted heavenly and we finished it off in two days! Two days back I had some guests for dinner and I again tried the same truffles with the correct amount of cream and this time I added Raisins instead of Apricot. Yes this time my ganache set well, and I got really soft very tasty Truffles.

Milk Chocolate and Passion Fruit Truffles

{Adapted from Cannelle Et Vanille by Aran}

Ingredients:

210 grams milk chocolate

25 grams dried apricots, small dice (first time I used Dates and second time Raisins)

1 tbsp water

80 grams (1/2 cup) passion fruit puree

45 grams (1/4 cup) heavy cream

1/2 tbsp honey

30 grams unsalted butter, room temperature

Method:

• Mix the chopped apricots/dates/raisins with the water and let them plump up.
• When you are ready to add them to the ganache, drain them and pat them dry with a paper towel.
• Place chopped milk chocolate in a bowl big enough to hold all ingredients.
• In a saucepan, bring cream, passion fruit puree and honey to a boil.
• Pour over the chopped chocolate. Whisk until chocolate melts. Let this mixture cool a little bit.
• Add the softened butter and mix until all incorporated.
• Add the chopped and plumped apricots/dates/raisins.
• Let the ganache set in the refrigerator and when hard, make small balls and roll them in cocoa powder/powdered sugar or dip in melted chocolate.

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