Chocolate and orange mousse

This is a slightly different version of chocolate from that normally served.  It is enhanced with orange juice and a touch of orange liqueur.  If possible, use a Seville orange.  Its aromatic flavour comes through better than that of a sweet orange.

The dish is very easy to make and this can be done well in advance of serving it.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 5 Mins

Total Time: 12 Hrs

Ingredients

For 6 servings…

110 gms          Chocolate  - 70%     

4                    Eggs        

30 gms            Butter  - softened     

1                    Orange  - juice of     

½ tbs             Orange liqueur        

Method

Break the chocolate into squares and put in a fireproof saucepan in a low oven (110°C).  When the chocolate is soft, take the saucepan from the oven and stir the yolks, well-beaten, into the chocolate.   Then whisk in the butter, the juice of the orange and the liqueur.

Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the chocolate mixture.  Pour into little pots, glasses or coffee-cups.  Put them in a refrigerator and leave them over-night.

Wine recommendations

Something sweet, possibly with orange flavours.

Conventional

     Floc de Gascogne rouge

Interesting

     Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise

     Pineau des Charentes rosé

Unusual

     Cointreau blood orange liqueur

Adventurous

     Moscatel Sherry