Clean and lean pudding for two greedy flatmates!

I'm a sucker for anything chocolatey and I had a real craving for mousse today. I wanted to do something that used clean and lean ingredients but I'm not keen on the idea of an avocado mousse. It's not that I doubt it will be nice but I like eating avocados so much as they are it seems a waste to hide them in a mousse. This is basically a mix of the ingredients I had in the fridge loosely based on recipes from Lorraine Pascale and Delia Smith - both recipes used 'forbidden' ingredients so I did a bit of tinkering. I hope you will like the result - me and my flatmate definitely did!

Chocolate Mousse

Ingredients:

85g dark chocolate

120-150ml double cream

1-2 tbsp amaretto

Vanilla extract

1 large egg separated

Squeeze, approx 25g agave

Handful of raspberries

Method:

Melt chocolate in double cream over a bain-marie, add a splash of amaretto.

Let it cool for a couple of minutes and stir through the egg yolk, you might need to add a tiny bit more cream if it seems too thick at this point.

Whisk the egg white with the vanilla extract, once it's getting stiff add a squeeze of agave syrup and whisk until stiff peaks form, you won't need much agave as the vanilla helps it seem sweeter.

Fold the whites carefully into the cooled chocolate mix, spoon into dishes (either 2 or 4 depending on the portions you want) and put in the fridge to set for a couple of hours.

Either eat as they are or top with raspberries as in the picture. Alternatively if you want something more decadent go for whipped cream/crème fraîche and a grating of dark chocolate.