Passion Fruit Mousse

Mousse de Maracujá

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8-10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
My Rio de Janeiro: A Cookbook

By Leticia Moreinos Schwartz

Published 2013

  • About

It’s still dusk in Rio when the men arranging the stands at the farmers’ market Feira da Glória arrive with their trucks loaded with fruit. As you enter the neighbourhood you can feel the bright yellow gold light that slants onto each stand, and the passion fruit mirrors that same yellow light for a moment of magic. At Feira da Glória, the passion fruit is loaded with pulp, crowded with black seeds and bursting with wet juices. When I am back home in Rio, I find myself using passion fruit i