Pumpkin mousse with lime cream, soft and tasty starter or amuse. I never thought I would say this but I’m really starting to like pumpkin. I always stayed away from pumpkin because I thought it was so much work to prepare that could never really pay off. But now, after trying out several new pumpkin recipes I actually start to like it. Especially this one is really nice, it’s just a small starter but very tasty, surprisingly different and (TIP) if you buy the already chopped pumpkin, not so hard to make!
Ingredients for 4 pers.:
- 400 gr pumpkin
- 1 onion
- Fresh thyme
- 200 ml whipped cream
- 1 lime
- Spring onion
- Pine nuts
- Salt and pepper
How to prepare it:
Put a small pan on the stove. Add a little bit of butter. Peel the onion. Remove the twigs of the thyme. Trim and fine slice the onion and the thyme. Add the thyme and onion to the pan. Stir well and it fry for 2 minutes.
Chop the pumpkin into small blocks and add it to the pan. Fry them for 5 minutes. Turn down the heat and add a bit of water. Let the pumpkin simmer for 20 minutes until it’s soft.
In the meantime you can make the lime crème. Grate the skin of the lime and squeeze out the juice. Put the whipped cream into a bowl to whip it. Add some salt, pepper, the lime juice and half of the lime grate. Whip the cream.
Once the pumpkin is soft, mash it with your standing food processor. Add a bit of pepper to spice it up. Put the mashed pumpkin into a serving glass. Use a piping bag to add a layer of the lime cream.
Chop the spring onion into thin slices. Sprinkle some spring onion, pine nuts and lime grate on top of the pumpkin.
You can eat this dish both cold as well as hot, just the way you prefer it.
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