Jello Recipes
Creamy Pomegranate and Fruit Mousse Desserts
Fruit mousse desserts are always welcome after dinner and the following recipe is one of the best pomegranate recipes ever. Perhaps you know about the health benefits of pomegranate juice already. All fruits are nutritious and pomegranate is especially good for you.
Each scoop of pomegranate jello in this delicious fruit mousse recipe sits on top of a homemade watermelon jello cookie. If you like soft, chewy cookies, sit the mousse on top of the cookies a while before serving it, so the juice soaks through. This recipe makes 20 cookies so you might have some over. Just keep the leftover ones in an airtight container. A watermelon cream sauce is served over the fruity mousse, the dish is garnished with rose petals, mint leaves, and red berries, making this a stunning looking dessert.
These desserts are not difficult to make and they always impress dinner guests. Pomegranate recipes are great if you love fruity flavors and will agree that the watermelon flavor of the cookies and the sauce goes wonderfully with the fruit mousse flavors. You can tell people that the rose petals are also edible. Just make sure you use organic rose petals, not pesticide-coated ones!
Pomegranate Mousse with Watermelon and Rose Petals
Ingredients -
For the Watermelon Cookies:
1 package watermelon jello
1 ½ cups softened butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sugar
3 ½ cups all purpose flour
For the Pomegranate Mousse:
1 ½ oz powdered sugar
1 pomegranate
3 ½ fl oz mascarpone cheese
3 ½ fl oz crème fraiche
¼ teaspoon salt
2 egg whites
For the Watermelon Cream Sauce:
¼ watermelon, cubed
½ cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon light rum
½ cup sugar
Blueberries, redcurrants, strawberry halves, red rose petal leaves and mint leaves, for garnish
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Mix together the sugar, flour and baking powder to make the cookies. Cream the butter, watermelon jello, vanilla, and egg together, and then add the flour mixture gradually.
Grease a cookie sheet lightly and drop the cookie mixture on to it using a dessertspoon.
You will get about 20 cookies.
Bake for 8 minutes.
Keep an eye on them because they burn quickly.
Cool the watermelon jello cookies on a wire rack.
While they are cooling, make the pomegranate mousse.
Whip the egg whites until they form soft peaks, and then add the powdered sugar.
Whip for 10 minutes more.
Combine the crème fraiche with the mascarpone, and then slowly stir in the egg white mixture and pomegranate seeds.
Put plastic wrap over the top of the bowl and chill it for an hour.
Press the watermelon cubes through a food mill or strainer to get 2 cups of juice.
Stir in the rum and sugar until the sugar dissolves, then stir in the cream.
Serve each person a couple of scoops of pomegranate mousse on top of watermelon cookies.
Pour the watermelon sauce over the top, then garnish with the berries and mint.
Decorate each scoop of pomegranate mousse with a red rose petal.
(Serves 6)
Photo Description:
These fruit mousse desserts look like something you would get in a top class restaurant. The combination of pomegranate, watermelon, jello, and berries is divine. These mousses are topped with red rose petal leaves. Rose petals are edible, so choose perfect ones since these make a prettier garnish and are more appetizing. Use organic roses only, since roses from florists, garden centers, or nurseries might have pesticides on, and wash the petals well before using them as a garnish. All rose petals are edible but remove the white part at the base, since it can be bitter.
Health Benefits of Pomegranate Juice
Pomegranates are very healthy and pomegranate juice is a health supplement as well as a delicious and refreshing beverage. There are lots of healthy benefits of pomegranate juice and you can either drink the juice or use pomegranates to make delicious pomegranate fruit mousse desserts or other pomegranate recipes.
There is plenty of vitamin C in pomegranates and they contain a lot of phytonutrients too. Half a cup of raw pomegranate has no fat and eighty calories. If you enjoy eating healthy food, you might like to try pomegranate juice or other pomegranate recipes since they are very nutritious and can also help to prevent various diseases.
Pomegranate Juice and Cancer
This healthy juice has been clinically tested and studies in mice prove that pomegranate juice can help to prevent lung cancer and it can slow prostate cancer cell growth. It also destroys breast cancer cells without impacting the healthy surrounding cells. Pomegranate juice is thought to be able to stop breast cancer cells forming. Pomegranate juice can keep PSA levels stable. A study was carried out amongst fifty men who had received prostate cancer treatment. They were given eight ounces of pomegranate juice per day and the stable PSA levels reduced the need for further hormone therapy, chemotherapy or other post-cancer treatments.
Disease Prevention
Pomegranate juice or pomegranate fruit mousse desserts can prevent some diseases, such as osteoarthritis. This is because the juice helps to prevent the cartilage from deteriorating. It is believed to slow or prevent Alzheimer's. A study with mice showed that mice with Alzheimer's who were given pomegranate juice performed mental tasks better because they did not accumulate so much amyloid plaque. There is obviously a limit to which kinds of mental tasks you can give a mouse!
Pomegranate Juice Protects Your Body
This wonder juice can stop plaque building up in your arteries and it might be able to reverse an existing plaque buildup. The juice is also thought to keep tooth plaque at bay. It is able to lower LDL, which is bad cholesterol, whilst raising HDL, which is good cholesterol.
A recent test showed that drinking 1.7 ounces of pomegranate juice every day could lower systolic blood pressure by up to five percent, which is good news for high blood pressure sufferers. Pomegranate recipes enjoyed by a breastfeeding mother can protect her child's brain after an injury.
Interesting Pomegranate Facts
If you are interested in the health benefits of pomegranate juice and making pomegranate recipes like pomegranate fruit mousse desserts, you might also be interested in some pomegranate facts. Did you know, for example, that there are more than seven hundred and sixty pomegranate varieties or that a pomegranate used to be called an "apple of Grenada" in early English?
Pomegranates are grown in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Southern Asia, Bengal, Northern India, southeast Asia and some parts of Africa and the Middle East. Ancient Egyptians were frequently buried with pomegranates in their tombs. This healthy fruit was introduced by Spanish settlers to California in 1769 and Thomas Jefferson planted a pomegranate crop in 1771 at Monticello. In the northern hemisphere, pomegranate season lasts from September to February. This is why pomegranates are nicknamed "The Jewel of Winter." The word pomegranate comes from the Latin words for apple and seeded. "Pomum" is Latin for apple and "granatus" is Latin for seeded.
Pomegranates Around the World
In Japan, pomegranate plants are frequently used for bonsai. This is because they tend to have interesting twisted bark. A pomegranate is a traditional housewarming gift in Greece, where it is also traditional to break the fruit on the ground at new year and at weddings. The health benefits of pomegranate juice are known throughout the world and pomegranate recipes are popular in many different countries.