Eat a lot of chickpeas? Throwing out the water they sit in? STOP what you’re doing and try this recipe. It’s so delicious, so easy and zero waste. We absolutely love this recipe hack! 5 minute chocolate mousse, let’s do it!
5 Ingredient Chocolate Mousse
Takes
Serves 6
Ingredients
- 150 ml Aquafaba drained chickpea water
- 150 g dark chocolate
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
- 3-5 drops fresh lemon
Instructions
- Drain your chickpeas and pour the drained water into a clean bowl. Any grease will prevent your Aquafaba from whipping up! Pop the chickpeas in your fridge for another meal…
- With an electric whisk, whisk the Aquafaba on a slow speed, gradually increasing until it's on high. Add the few drops of lemon juice to help the Aquafaba stabilise and whisk even quicker. Whisk the Aquafaba for about 3 minutes until it's made stiff peaks and doesn't shift in the bowl. At this point, add in your sugar, one tablespoon at a time and continue whisking until you have a thick, glossy, meringue like texture.
- Melt your chocolate over a bain-marie and once the chocolate has completely melted, take it off the heat.
- Add one third of the Aquafaba mixture into the hot chocolate and mix well. Slowly fold in the rest of the Aquafaba mixture with a spatula. Do this carefully so the mousse doesn't deflate.
- Transfer into ramekins and pop in the fridge to set!
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We love Aquafaba. It’s really magic in the way it whisks up just like an egg white does and as you know, we eat a lot of chickpeas so we tend to have a lot of Aquafaba knocking about and it’s a great way to reduce waste. People tend to think that Aquafaba is meant for meringues, but the truth is, it does so much more. It has similar protein levels to egg whites so they whip up in very similar ways.
We have taken a very traditional mousse recipe and replaced the egg white with Aquafaba and it’s worked perfectly. It’s so fluffy, it’s almost like a cloud.
We also love Aquafaba, because it can’t be over-whipped. This means if you have a hand free stand, you can leave it to whisk up and focus on melting your chocolate.
Aquafaba chocolate mousse, you’ll never throw away chickpea water again!
Dave & Steve x
Top tip: If you want to keep your Aquafaba but don’t think you’ll need it any time soon – it freezes amazingly. We pour the water into an ice-cube tray and take it out when we need it. It works just as well…just let it defrost!
