5 Ingredients – 2 Desserts: ricotta, cream, honey, figs and walnuts
You are in the mood of making a quick recipe for a delicious dessert made from simple ingredients that you probably already have at home? Then try this recipe – you can even choose between two options for your dessert: either a creamy ricotta honey mousse with fresh figs and walnuts or a cooling ricotta honey ice cream with walnuts and fig jam.
With only 5 ingredients you can make 2 different desserts in less time – without much effort and special or exotic ingredients which almost no one knows and which you still have to buy.
I even used the home-grown figs of my garden – they are perfectly juicy, soft and deliciously sweet. The walnuts also come from the walnut trees in my garden, freshly removed from the cracked shell.
May you wonder what ricotta is?!
Ricotta is an Italian cream cheese which is, not like the normal cream cheese made from milk, but from whey with the addition of fresh milk and heated to 90 degrees C. This healthy cheese with few calories and fat provides valuable protein, vitamin A, B12 and also the minerals calcium, phosphorus and copper. The taste is creamy and mild with a slightly sweetish note. At home ricotta is really common and easy to find. But don’t worry, you can exchange ricotta in this recipe without any problems with e. g: curd cheese or cream cheese. . .
The preparation of both desserts is exactly the same until the penultimate step, only at the end the recipes are different from each other in one step. Both desserts start with a creamy mixture of ricotta, honey and whipped cream. In addition, fresh figs which are in season in autumn, are used to make a fig jam from only 3 ingredients: figs, honey and water. For the crispy and crunchy consistency in both desserts we refine the smooth ricotta honey cream with walnuts.
The first variant is a creamy ricotta mousse, which is flavoured and sweetened with honey. I filled the mousse into a tall glass bowl and put thin slices of fresh figs at the edge of the glas for a nice look. In addition to the fresh figs, the mousse gets even more fruit flavours from a homemade fig compote, sweetened only with honey. The ricotta honey cream is topped and decorated with walnuts and possibly more honey.
In the second variant, you simply add more liquid cream to the ricotta honey mixture and then stir everything in an ice cream machine until creamy and cold. After the mixture has turned into a creamy ice cream, it is topped with fig jam and walnuts, giving the ice cream an incomparable fruity and crunchy taste.
The ice has to be stored in the freezer. In my opinion the consistency is best after the ice cream has been cooled in the freezer for half an hour. But beware, if the ice cream is in the freezer for a day or longer, you should take it out some time before consumption to get it soft and creamy; otherwise it is clearly too hard!
The recipe is enough for about 5 – 6 portions if you decide to make one of the two desserts. If you want to try both, however, the mass is sufficient for 3 portions per dessert, otherwise you must simply increase the recipe details to your desired level.
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5 Ingredients, 2 Desserts:
Ingredients
Fig jam:
- 500 g figs
- 150 g water
- 100 g honey
Ricotta honey cream:
- 500 g ricotta or other cream cheese
- pinch of salt
- 120 g honey
- 250 g cream and for the ice cream in addition 200g cream
- 50 g walnuts
Instructions
- For the fig jam cut the fresh figs into little pieces and boil it with water and honey until smooth.
- In the meantime beat the cream to stiff peaks, then mix it gently with ricotta, salt and honey.
- Mix the fig mixture to a smooth jam and let it cool.
for the creamy ricotta honey mousse:
- Take some high dessert bowls made of glass and put some thin slieces of figs to their edges. Fill the bowls with the ricotta honey mousse and top it with some fig jam, walnuts and honey.
for the ricotta ice cream:
- Mix 200g of liquid cream into the ricotta cream and put it all into a ice cream machine. Let the cream cool down in the machine until it gets creamy and cold. Then put it into a bowl, top it with some fig jam and walnuts and store it in the freezer.
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