This beet mousse, as delicious as it is colorful, is ultra-simple to make, requires no cooking and is ready in 10 minutes max! See life in pink with this appetizer that can also be used as a light, gourmet starter.
If you love beet (or are looking for recipes to love it), this toast with beet cream, hard-boiled egg and feta will be ideal! And this beet, feta and lime risotto is a pure nugget…
💙 Why you'll love it
- Super simple to make and doesn't even need cooking.
- It's vegetarian* and easily veganizable.
- It uses very basic ingredients.
📝 Note for vegetarians
Please note that many cheeses contain animal rennet (a coagulant that transforms milk into cheese by curdling it), which means they are not vegetarian. There are goats' cheeses without animal rennet, but you simply have to look carefully at the product.
To be sure the cheese you're buying is vegetarian, look for the words "suitable for vegetarians". You can also look at the list of ingredients: if you see "rennet", it's 99% animal-based. On the other hand, if you see "microbial coagulant", "microbial enzymes" or "vegetable rennet", the product is vegetarian.
🧀Ingredients
You'll need the following ingredients to make this delicious beetroot mousse. You can find the quantities in the recipe card below.
- Beet: to speed things up, I use a pre-cooked beetroot, but you can totally buy a raw beetroot and cook it yourself.
- Goat's cheese: use a soft one.
- Cream: semi-thick.
- Garlic and shallots
- Aromatic herbs: chives and parsley
- Vegetable stock: you can make your own stock cubes with this simple and really healthy recipe!
- Walnut kernels
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✅ Vegan and gluten-free version
- To make this recipe vegan, simply replace the goat's cheese with the vegetable fauxmage of your choice (there's some very good vegetable Boursin, for example) and the cream with vegetable cream.
👩🏻🍳Chef's tip
Don't add all the vegetable stock at once. Put it in a little at a time, so that you can control the texture and arrive at the one that suits you best.
❄️ Storage
This mousse can be kept for 48 hours in an airtight container in the fridge.
You can make it ahead of time, but add the toppings (walnut kernels, parsley and 10g of goat's cheese) at the last minute, so it doesn't get mushy.
😋 Other quick starters
- Salmon eggs cocotte (French baked eggs)
- Puff pastry with goat cheese, ham, onions and honey
- 15-minute mushroom crostini
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📖 Recette
Beetroot mousse
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large garlic clove minced
- 1 shallot minced
- 9 oz. beetroot cut in cubes
- 5 oz. goat cheese cut in cubes
- 0.4 cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon fresh chives
- 3.8 cup vegetable broth
- ½ teaspoon salt or to taste
- ½ teaspoon black pepper or to taste
- 1 tablespoon walnut kernels
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley
Instructions
- In a frying pan with a drizzle of olive oil, sauté the minced garlic and shallot until translucent, then set aside.
- Place the beet and goat's cheese (keep a little bit of it for decoration in the end) cubes in the blender with sour cream, chives, ⅔ of vegetable stock, cooked garlic and shallot, salt and pepper. Blend well and gradually add the rest of the stock until you reach the desired consistency (you don't have to use it all).
- Spoon into verrines, add the walnuts, a few parsley leaves and crumble the remaining goat cheese.
Notes
- Tip - Don't add all the vegetable stock at once. Put it in a little at a time, so that you can control the texture and arrive at the one that suits you best.
- Storage - This mousse can be kept for 48 hours in an airtight container in the fridge.
- Make ahead of time - You can make it ahead of time, but add the toppings (walnut kernels, parsley and 10g of goat's cheese) at the last minute, so it doesn't get mushy.
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