Coconut Jelly

Recipe online from Be-Inspired (Roberta Muir): https://beinspired.au/recipes/coconut-jelly/

Ingredients

1 cup water
80g castor sugar
1 tablespoon powdered gelatine
100ml coconut milk
2 egg whites

Drawing presentation influence from Phillip Searle’s checkerboard dessert from the 80s.

Served with a Piña colada sorbet.

There is something about gelatine that I find off-putting which after some research I have now worked out. Gelatin is generally made from livestock collagen. I have two varieties in the fridge. The leaf version says it is made from 100% pig skin, and the powdered version just says gelatine and preservatives. I think it is the mixture of animal products in a dessert that I find off-putting.

Agar-Agar is purely vegetarian, come from a red algae plant (seaweed). So next time I will try Agar-Agar.