- Avocado Mousse
- 1 large ripe avocado
- Splash of lemon juice
- Small clove of garlic
- 100 ml double cream lightly whipped
- Passion Fruit Jelly
- 12 whole passion fruits
- 2 leaves of gelatine
- Pinch of caster sugar
- 100 g picked white Dorset crab meat
- Few sprigs of chervil
- A little good quality extra virgin olive oil
Avocado Mousse, Passion Fruit Jelly, Fresh Dorset Crab
Jacqueline Gear
13th September 2016
Avocado Mousse, Passion Fruit Jelly, Fresh Dorset Crab
Chefs often regard crab meat as a two-in-one ingredient. While white meat contains a light and sweet flavour the brown meat is often richer in taste meaning it can be used as a mix and on its own due to its unique flavour. Why not give the following Avocado Mousse, Passion Fruit Jelly, Fresh Dorset Crab recipe a try in your kitchen? The recipe using Lyme Bay crab meat from my home town which has excellent flavour but you can use a good quality alternative.
Ingredients
Method
Serves 12
Avocado Mousse
1. Remove skin and stone from avocado, roughly chop along with the garlic
2. Puree in a food processor until smooth adding a little lemon juice
3. Fold in the lightly whipped double cream
4. Season to taste
Passion Fruit Jelly
5. Soak the gelatine in cold water to cover
6. Remove the passion fruit seeds and place in the a heavy bottomed saucepan
7. Add a pinch of sugar
8. Cook gently for approx 10 minutes
9. Then place in a food processer and whiz a few times
10. Pass through a fine sieve
11. Squeeze any excess water from your leaf gelatine and add to the hot puree
12. Stir to dissolve
13. Allow to cool
To assemble
14. Pipe the avocado mousse back into your empty passion fruit shells about ¾ full
15. Tap to level
16. Spoon the passion fruit jelly over the avocado mousse to fill the shell to the top
17. Set in a refrigerator for one hour
18. Mix your fresh crab meat with a little lemon juice, salt, pepper, picked chervil and a splash of extra virgin olive oil
19. Spoon a quenelle of the crab meat on top of each passion fruit jelly
Chefs tip – the riper the passion fruit the wrinklier its skin.
You can use any unusual shaped little pot or dishes to serve this amuse bouche in, an egg cup for example would work well.
You can also add a little red chilli to the crab meat for extra warmth.
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