Pineapple Mousse Recipes

Steps:

• Make the crust: Place pistachios in a food processor, and pulse until coarsely chopped. Reserve 1/4 cup, and place in a small bowl. Continue to pulse remaining pistachios until fine crumbs form, and transfer to a large bowl. Pulse graham crackers until large crumbs form (about 1 1/3 cups). Add graham cracker crumbs to pistachios and mix well. Stir in granulated sugar, salt, and butter until well combined. Pat crumb mixture into bottom of an 8-cup, 3- to 4-inch-deep souffle dish. Crust should be about 1 inch thick.
• Make the mousse: Make a collar for the dish by folding a 24-inch-long piece of parchment into a quadruple-thick strip about 4 inches wide. Wrap very tightly around rim of dish, and secure with tape, making sure there are no gaps between dish and parchment. The collar should come at least 3 inches above the top of dish. Place dish in refrigerator.
• Drain pineapple in a sieve, reserving syrup. You will need a scant 4 cups fruit and 2 3/4 cups syrup. (Add enough canned pineapple juice to syrup to reach that amount.) Pulse 1 cup pineapple chunks in a food processor until a coarse puree forms.
• Place gelatin in a medium bowl. Pour 1 cup pineapple syrup over gelatin, and let stand until softened, about 5 minutes. Pour boiling water over gelatin, and stir until smooth. Stir in lemon zest and juice, and the remaining 1 3/4 cups pineapple syrup.
• Prepare an ice-water bath. Beat cream cheese with a mixer until soft and smooth, about 3 minutes. Beat in sour cream and 1 cup confectioners' sugar until smooth. Slowly whisk in gelatin mixture until incorporated. Fold in pineapple chunks and puree.
• Whisk cream with remaining 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar until medium-soft peaks form. Fold into cream cheese mixture. Place bowl in ice-water bath. Stir until slightly thickened, but still pourable, and pineapple chunks no longer fall to the bottom, about 10 minutes. Using a rubber spatula, carefully scrape the bowl while stirring to chill mousse evenly.
• Place dish on a baking sheet, and pour mousse mixture into the dish, spooning in pineapple chunks. Gently smooth the top. Refrigerate until set, at least 2 hours (or overnight).
• Sprinkle the mousse with reserved 1/4 cup pistachios. Carefully remove collar from dish. Turn spoonfuls of mousse onto plates and serve with lime sabayon on the side.

Steps:

• Refrigerate the evaporated milk to make it as cold as possible.
• Combine the juice, water and jelly crystals. Microwave for one minute, stir and leave to cool.
• Pour the evaporated milk into a small mixing bowl and beat until very thick. Add the cream cheese and continu beating.
• Gradually add the jelly and continue to beat until the mixture is very thick.
• Fold in the pineapple pieces.
• Place the mousse into 4 individual serving dishes and refrigerate for about an 1 1/2 or until set.

Steps:

• Pineapple mousse 8 slices of a very ripe pineapple (1cm thick) 6 eggs separated 6 TBS of sugar 6 Sheets of Gelatine (whipping cream for decoration - optional) Peel and core a very ripe pineapple, cut into small pieces and blend it for 30 sec up to 1 minute until smooth. Put the gelatine sheets in a bowl with cold water until they became soft, after that squeeze the water from the gelatine with your fingers and place it in a bowl with two spoons of water or pineapple juice over a pan of hot water until it dissolves. In a medium bowl whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until you get a pale mixture. Fold in the pineapple, stirring well followed by the gelatine. Wisk it well in order to be very well blended. Using electric mixer beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Using a metallic spoon, fold egg whites gradually into the pineapple mixture. Pour the mixture into a round mould with an aperture on the centre. The mould shall be previously rinsed with cold water. Drain the water very well but don´t dry it. Chill until the mixture is firmly set, 6 hours minimum. It´s better when left overnight. To serve, just take the mould out of the refrigerator, turn it over a big plate, and use a hot damp cloth over the base of the mould for a few seconds in order to help the mousse to slacken from the sides of the mould. The mousse can be decorated with whipping cream and small pieces of pineapple if wished.