Easy Mint Mousse

Name: Easy Mint Mousse
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 150 ml ● Milk; 10 grams ● Mint leaves; 3 grams Gelatin powder; 1 tbsp Water; 15 grams Sugar; 1 tsp Mint liqueur (if available); 20 ml Heavy cream; 1 Chocolate, mint

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I kept buying small packages of mint at the supermarket and they'd go bad, so I thought I could make something with them besides herb tea. I also wrote about this in Step 12.
I learned how to use chopped mint to infuse a liquid from a recipe by food writer Fujino Makiko that appeared in a magazine.

If you don't have mint liqueur, increase the amount of mint leaves. Speaking of which, the mousse had a lot less color than I expected, so I added a little bit of green food coloring. It doesn't affect the taste, so you don't need it if you don't mind the color. For enough to fill 2 150ml bowls. Recipe by Sabumochi

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Ingredients

150 ml● Milk
10 grams● Mint leaves
3 gramsGelatin powder
1 tbspWater
15 gramsSugar
1 tspMint liqueur (if available)
20 mlHeavy cream
[Toppings] (optional)
1Chocolate, mint

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Steps

1

Finely chop the mint leaves, then combine with milk in a sauce pot. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then cover and steam for 1 hour.
2

Dissolve the gelatin powder in water in a heatproof bowl.
3

Strain the mint milk from Step 1 into a bowl.
4

Mix sugar into the bowl from Step 3. (If you have it, add mint liqueur now.)
5

Microwave the gelatin from Step 2 uncovered for 15 seconds on 500W, then add to the bowl from Step 4. Refrigerate until slightly thickened.
6

Whisk heavy cream in a separate bowl until it's as thickened as Step 5.
7

Gently combine the bowls from Steps 5 and 6.
8

Divide the mixture equally into two bowls, cover, and refrigerate until firm. Enjoy!
9

Garnish as you like. This time I have mint, nuts, silver dragées, and chocolate shapes I made with a quick-dry chocolate pen on parchment paper on my finished dish.
10

10 g of mint leaves is about enough to fill a 10 cm wide dish.
11

Note: If using low fat milk and cream, each serving is ~102 kcal. If using regular milk and vegetable heavy cream, each serving is ~127 kcal (both of these are without toppings).
12

Story time! This is the potted mint plant I bought. I really like choco-mint flavored sweets, so I was really eager to make something with it. I started with mousse.