In reading up to find recipes that make good use of rice syrup, I came across a recipe from Teresa Cutter, the Australian chef at The Healthy Chef. And it's everything free! Fun-free, I believe my brother-in-law would say. But I was fascinated by it, and had all the ingredients to hand. And you know what? It's great. Really, good. Fun all round!
My recipe below has less avocado than the original recipe suggests, but this is the way I like it. You could really change it around to suit your tastes. Change the ratio of avocado to banana depending on how you feel about the banana-y taste. Use less cocoa if it's too strong. Swap the syrup for honey and see how that flavour goes.
Try it on your friends and see if they can guess what's in it.
Chocolate Mousse
1 banana
1 avocado
1/3 cup cocoa
1/4 cup rice syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
(Optional - tiny half scoop stevia)
Blend the banana and avocado (in a stick blender is best, or with a fork). Add the cocoa, rice syrup, vanilla (and stevia) mixing as you go. Refrigerate, or serve immediately. Best served at room temperature.
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| Esther cut her banana while I cut mine. Later, roaring like a lion with a chocolate moussey mouth (her verdict: "Ucky") |
Woo hoo!
ReplyDeleteI have made avocado choc mousse once before (sans banana, which I think would be a great addition!)and upon tasting it I thought it was disgusting!!!! I couldn't bring myself to throw it out so I shoved it in the fridge. The next day I thought I'd just have a wee taste - and it was so good I ate the whole thing!!! :)
ReplyDeleteHa ha that's hilarious! I wonder what happened overnight. Actually I can imagine it getting chocolatier overnight. I think the banana would make quite a difference, and maybe not thinking about the avocado.
DeleteWow! How strange! I'll have to give that a go - is a NZ cup measure the same as a US one?
ReplyDeleteYes it is - "metric." I'm glad you're giving it a go. Strange, but strangely good.
DeleteI've added some avocados to my next grocery order. The difficulty now will be trying to get a ripe banana and a ripe avocado in the house at the same time - both get eaten too quickly!
DeleteHa ha yes Esther is crazy about bananas. Glad to hear of the progress.
DeleteI'm really keen to try this.. where do you get rice syrup from?
ReplyDeleteNew World Chaffers has it but NW Tawa doesn't, so try your luck at your local. I often ring round a few supermarkets to find things too. It's in the organic section at Chaffers. Also found it this morning at Moore Wilsons - sadly not in a cheaper bulk version!
DeleteI borrowed a jar from a friend.. then loved it so much I found my own jar of Chantal (?) Organics rice syrup in Commonsense Organics in J'villy. Yay! I'll have a look in Moore Wilsons next time I'm there to see if it's cheaper.
DeleteGreat, thanks Shorty. Mum told me about the new CSO, but I forgot about it and was planning to go in to town today for some! However, it's $3.50 more expensive at CSO, so almost worth the trip in to town - I've been buying it at New World Chaffers (1st aisle, organics section). I think I'll try to restock in town when I'm passing. Oh and yes, it's also at Moore Wilson - a little bit more expensive than at NW, but cheaper than CSO. Good to have options though.
DeletePS - glad you love it!
DeleteHmmm, I just could not bring myself to mix avocado and chocolate together ...
ReplyDeleteJust reporting back to say that we tried it at the weekend & it was great! Will definitely do that one again. We used honey, because that's what we had to hand. It mostly tasted of chocolate & banana, with a slight honey taste, so we'd probably use a smaller banana next time to get a better flavour mix (although chocolate & banana is pretty good!). Couldn't taste the avocado at all & no-one guessed it had avocado in it - it might become our dinner party trick until we've experimented on all our friends!
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