Sugarless Orange Mousse: 10-Min Recipe

Not all cakes, mousses, puddings need eggs, or even sugar, and can be effortessly whipped up at home. Bunty Mahajan, the expert dessert specialist behind the Mumbai brand Deliciae, creates a sugarless, eggless delight, low in fat, with fresh oranges.

Ingredients

• 200 gm low-fat cream
• 15 gm agar agar

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• Little water to dissolve the agar agar
• Sweetener, like stevia (please see the Tips slide at the end)

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• 3 drops orange essence
• 2 drops orange food colouring
• 3 fresh oranges, peeled, seeds removed, skinned -- segemented from the membrane

Method

• Dissolve the agar agar, as per instructions on the packet, in a little water, and keep aside.
• In a bowl, whip the cream till it forms soft peaks. 

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• Then add the sweetener, essence, food colouring, dissolved agar agar to the whipped cream.
  Next fold in the segmented oranges (keep a little aside for garnish).

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• Pour into individual small, ramekin-like bowls and chill.
  Decorate with orange segments.
• The whole process, not counting the chilling will take only about 10 minutes; Serves 2-3.

Tips
Instead of filling in small bowls or ramekins, keep the orange peels and carefully line them with foil and chill the mousse in it, once ready.
Stevia powder or stevia drops. Each brand of stevia has its own stevia for sugar substitution ratio provided on its packing.
Recipe first posted October 26, 2006, with permission, courtesy Bunty Mahajan, who produces desserts under the brand Deliciae.