Thursday, March 18, 2010

Hung Yogurt Mousse

Hung Yogurt Mousse with a dash of Lime

Weekends are great fun, everyone looks forward to a great weekend and with that comes a list of ‘things to do’ and no list is complete without some special food stuff to eat. So for your weekend fun here is a nice delicious ‘Hung Yogurt Mousse’

Preparation Time: 20 Min
Setting time: 1 hr
Serves: 6 portions

Tools required: Muslin cloth, tying string, Mixing Bowls, electric or hand whisk, scoop, weighing pan, dessert bowls – individual portion or 1 big bowl

How to make your own Hung Yogurt:
Thick Yogurt: 300 ml Put the yogurt in a muslin cloth tie it with a string and hang it for 3 to 4 hrs until all the whey is drained out to derive ‘Hung yogurt’

Collect the following Ingredients from your Kitchen:
Hung Yogurt: 150 gms Put it in a mixing bowl and whisk it very lightly until smooth
Breakfast Sugar: 60 gms Divide into three parts, and keep aside
Milk: 100 ml Warm the milk, add melted gelatine to the milk and stir well, cool on bed of ice
Gelatine: 10 gms Melt the gelatine, on a water bath and mix it in warm milk
Eggs: 3 nos Whites to be separated from yolks
Fresh Cream: 100 ml whip it into soft peak
Fresh lime rind: ½ Ts. Sp
Fresh lime juice: ½ Ts. Sp
Ice bath:
Ice cubes: 10 to 12 no. for cooling the mixtures; placed in a flat tray

Preparation Steps: Just in 5 steps

1. Take the hung yogurt in a mixing bowl, and whisk it lightly, add 1/3rd of the sugar to the hung yogurt continue to whisk for a while and place it on a bed of ice bath
2. In the second bowl, take the warm milk and blend the melted gelatine; egg yolks and rest 2/3 sugar until it turns to a smooth custard, cool it slightly on the bed of ice.

3. Now quickly add whipped cream and hung yogurt mixture to the above cream mixture and leave it on the bed of ice, you will see it is almost settings

4. In the third bowl whip the egg whites to a soft peak, add the last portion of the sugar and fold it into the above mixture, add the fresh lime juice and the rind to enhance the flavors of the mousse

5. Scoop the mousse into the bowls and set in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Sweet Notes: Serve it cold, with any fruit topping like blue berry / strawberry etc

Happy Weekending...

1 comment:

  1. So glad you posted this, I'm crazy about this stuff! I am loving your blog :)

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