I was introduced to this extraordinary fruit and vegetable salad with white chocolate mousse this past week by Italian chef, Leonardo Vescera at the glamorous Ga Gemma Dell’ Est Hotel in Zanzibar. Never in my wildest culinary dreams did I think that raw veggies and fruit could go so well together. The trick with this is that you need to cut your vegetables into small little cubes. The veggies provide sweetness and texture to an ordinary fruit salad.

Back home, I decided to make my own version. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did. Give it a whirl…it is a taste adventure!

Fruit and vegetable salad with white chocolate mousse
Serves 6
100g of the following fruit + vegetables (you can of course, substitute these with your own choices…)
Pineapple, banana, carrot, papaya, peach, baby marrows, patty pan squash
10 ml icing sugar
30 ml mango or pineapple juice
A squeeze of lime juice
A few chopped mint leaves

Cut the vegetables into small blocks. Mix all ingredients together and serve with a dollop of white chocolate mousse.

Two ingredient white chocolate mousse
1 cup cream
150 g white chocolate

Melt chocolate in a double boiler. Heat 1/3 cup of cream. Pour heated cream over chocolate and mix well till smooth. Allow the chocolate and cream mixture to cool down to room temperature. Beat the remaining cream until stiff and fold into the chocolate. Put in refrigerator until needed.