Jello Recipes
Frozen Mousse with Currants and Hot Fruity Coulis
If you can get a couple of packages of frozen berries, you can make this delicious currants mousse. Choose from black currants, red currants or other berries. Combine any berries you like to make this tasty jello mousse recipe. Currants are very healthy, whether you use red currants, black currants or something similar. They are packed with nutrients and they taste great too.
The coulis is an intensely flavored sauce and it goes very nicely with the mousse. If you have some left over, you can keep it in the refrigerator, covered, for four or five days. Alternatively, you can freeze it for up to three months. Serve this coulis thawed and reheated with ice cream, pie or any other dessert where the flavor would be good. The kirsch, which is cherry liqueur, is an optional ingredient but it does liven up the sauce and add a stronger flavor.
Freezing the mousse gives it a firmer texture. If you serve the frozen mousse with the hot coulis, it will start to melt on contact and the flavors will fuse together. This is a light and airy dessert and the saying "there's always room for jello" could apply to this light, refreshing jello mousse just as much as it applies to a plain jello gelatin dessert.
One of the Best Frozen Jello Recipes
Ingredients -
2 lbs thawed berries (maybe blackcurrants, redcurrants, and raspberries)
1 package raspberry jello
1 package peach jello
1 pint whipping cream
¾ cup sugar
3 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon kirsch (optional)
6 sprigs fresh mint, for garnish
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, for garnish
Preparation:
Crush 1 lb 4 oz of the berries and drain the juice. Add enough water to the berry juice to make 1 ½ cups and bring the liquid to a boil.
Stir in the jello powder until it dissolves. Add the berries and ¼ cup of the sugar and puree with a hand blender.
Whip the cream until it forms peaks, and then fold it into the fruit mixture. Put the mousse into a covered container and freeze it for a few hours.
Heat the rest of the sugar with the water over a medium heat, stirring it occasionally until the sugar dissolves.
This will take about 5 minutes.
Puree the remaining berries with the sugar syrup in a blender, and then strain the puree through a mesh sieve to remove any seeds.
Stir in the kirsch if you are using it.
Drizzle some of the hot berry coulis on 6 serving plates and serve a scoop of berry mousse on top.
Sprinkle some cinnamon on top and garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.
(Serves 6)
Photo Description:
Your mousse might be a different color than the currants mousse in the photo, depending on which currants you use. Blackcurrants will make the mousse darker, as will blueberries. Strawberries or raspberries will make it more pink. You can use the same berries to make the sauce or one type of berries for the mousse and a different kind for the sauce, if you want to. This is a light and refreshing jello mousse dessert recipe. The cool mousse is wonderful with the warm sauce.
The Best Frozen Jello Recipes
Fans of jello tend to love all kinds of jello desserts. Whether you have a craving for mousse, a fancy for a slice of jello cheesecake or a wish to eat a jello mousse filled cake, there are all kinds of jello recipes to choose from. Did you also know that you can make frozen jello recipes? Frozen desserts keep for weeks in the freezer, which is another great reason to find out about some recipes for frozen jello desserts.
Frozen Jello Pops and More
You cannot cook with jello because the gelatin melts in the heat but you can use it to make frozen recipes. Frozen jello pops are a wonderful way to cool down in the summer and you can make these by combining jello with water and sugar. Needless to say, any flavor of jello gelatin is great for making frozen jello pops. Combine jello, lemonade, and frozen fruit for a delicious jello salad. You can also add frozen topping to this mixture. Keep it in the freezer and serve either as a dessert or as an alternative to cranberry sauce.
Another great idea is to make a frozen mousse. Whether you are going to use chocolate, fruit, nuts, coconut or currants frozen mousse is always delicious. This light and refreshing dessert is easy to make with black currants or red currants and a mousse recipe for frozen mousse tends to be simple to follow. You can serve frozen mousse at any occasion and some recipes for frozen mousse are elegant enough for garden parties or dinner parties.
Tips for Delicious Frozen Mousse
Frozen mousse should be served straight from the freezer so it does not start to melt all over the plate before your guests have started to eat it. It is nice to serve a warm fruit sauce with a frozen mousse recipe because this melts the underneath layer of the scoop of frozen mousse and the flavors merge nicely. Also, the contrast in temperatures is interesting and adds another dimension to the dessert.
