Some of you asked for a raw food recipe, so here’s a raw food classic. I promise you, once you’ve eaten raw chocolate mousse you’ll never eat the usual eggs and cream chocolate mousse again.
Buy a couple of avocados and let them ripen up nicely. Then spoon them into a blender with a tablespoon or two of water. Whizz them up with some raw agave syrup, and then add raw cacao powder (this is raw cocoa and has more depth and fruitiness than the cooked stuff). If, like me, you’re a chocoholic you will add way more than you need to, three or so teaspoons should be enough. For extra depth of flavour try adding raw vanilla essence, or for extra fruitiness whizz in some blueberries. You can serve it in a bowl like in the picture, or do what I do: use it as a dip for slices of apple or, on luxury days, whole strawberries. I find if I do this I can actually manage to share my precious mousse with other people.
I buy my raw ingredients from two sources. If I’m in a rush I go to Harvest on Gloucester Road in Bristol. Otherwise I buy online from Detox Your World.
Hmm, not so sure I have the moxy to try that one! All of my carnivore instincts are crying out for eggs in my chocolate mousse!!! Post one that’s a bit easier for us skeptics to wrap our brains around?!
Having sampled this nectar for the mind and palette.. I am heading straight to the Gloucester road!
How is this for the collective mind? My sister is researching raw foods here in the US.
She has a second-hand dehydrator (we unpacked it the other night), and the book Living With Raw Food by Sarma Melngailis.
It is an amazing and inspirational book!
Sarma has a restaurant in New York which I may with any luck be able to visit….
The book makes me I realise I have been raw-fooding in an improvised way by cutting up raw broccoli in tiny pieces etc
It all comes down to the preparation, and cutting raw food up Very Small. Now I CRAVE a Japanese mandolin.
Plus (as I read last night) Soaking Nuts.
There is so much more that can be done!
Anyway – we are now looking for raw food soups ‘cos of dental problems…
http://www.reallyrawfood.com/recipes
http://www.learnrawfood.com/
And I love the sound of this mousse – but not avocados. Does the taste disappear in the rest of the ingredients?
Yes, after my initial bad experience several years ago with raw food (too much too soon), I am now, thanks to you and my sister, re-approaching this area with new interest!
Thank you.
You can’t taste the avocado at all, just yummy chocolateness. x
It works!
(and does not taste like avocado!).
This is an amazing recipe, Stott!
Three ingredients and hoopla.
Lot easier to make than the classic mousse.
What a find.
Thank you!