chocolate mousse, or dino poop…

this recipe is a great one for everybody, you can make it dairy, gluten, nut, egg what ever free you need, and it’s using a little known mostly thrown out product that is kind of a rock star.

we all love chocolate mousse right? but when the allergy police come knocking you end up missing out on some of these things that are totally delicious but full of all the goodness an animal can make. so when I was introduced to this magical product my world was changed forever. ok not really but you get my drift.

chick pea juice. yip it’s random, yip it sounds gross, yip it even looks gross, but if you take the chickpeas out of the can and put the juice into a bowl or machine and whisk that gross looking juice, and whisk, and whisk some more, it fluffs up just like egg whites, just exactly like egg whites. yip i said it twice. so it goes from kind of gross to amazing fluffy stiff peaks that can be used just like egg whites. i haven’t tried it in every application but mousse is definitely a winner.

so here it goes…

chickpea chocolate mousse…

• one can of chick peas
• one 250g whittakers 50% or more chocolate (see my disclaimer)
• almond – or whatever type of non dairy milk you prefer

pop about 1/4 of a cup of your milk into a microwave safe bowl and add your chocolate, all broken up. zap in the microwave for a couple of minutes then stir, if there are hard lumps pop it back in, if not then just stir some more. this now needs to be left to cool. but not so cool it’s hard. it takes a while so just hang in there.

drain the juice from the chick peas into the whisking bowl and pop the chick peas aside. i just put them in a container in the fridge then roasted them with a whole lot of spices to add to a salad.

whisk the juice, it takes a bit longer than egg whites so be prepared, and about at that time when you think i don’t know what im talking about it will start to happen, and whisk they will.

once the juice is whisked and the chocolate is pretty much cold, take a scoop of your juice and mix it into your chocolate, go to town and get it all mixed in there because the air in it will make the next bit easier.

next carefully fold in the rest of your whipped juice. take your time and do it slowly, you don’t want to beat out all that air. once it’s done pop it into some containers. i used bamboo boats from the warehouse, then put them in the fridge to cool. you can eat it right away if you want but cold is better.

now when I made this lot I was in a bit of a rush and didn’t wait for the chocolate to cool properly, nor did i fold in the first bit then add the second bit, so mine looked like aerated chocolate milk. to fix it i just put the mix back in my whisking bowl and started whisking again. it took ages but it thickened and moussed, and tasted delicious. so this stuff can totally be saved!!

I topped my mousse with some munched up cookies and popped a dinosaur on them and the kids called them dinosaur poop, delicious!!