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Copyright, 2015
April 24, 2014
Rob
Creams, custards and sauces
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Recipe: Panna cotta with strawberry gelée

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Panna cotta is a great dessert because:

  1. It’s good
  2. It’s super easy and quick to make
  3. It’s Italian 🙂

You can’t get any easier than this. As the name says (“Cooked cream”), the recipe is basically “heat the cream and add gelatin“, that’s it.

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Anyone can make it, and it’s particularly handy when you don’t have much time to prepare a dessert for your guests: I can guarantee than it can be made in 15 minutes (ok, then you need to wait a bit for the gelatin to have effect)!

Panna cotta is usually topped with a gelée (which is just fruit purée with gelatin) and for this version I chose strawberries, but you can choose any other fruit (blueberries, raspberries, mango,… but avoid citrus fruits, kiwi and pineapple which don’t work well with gelatin).

So you don’t have any excuse now, even if you don’t have an oven! Here’s the recipe!

 

Panna cotta with strawberry gelée

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Ingredients

Panna cotta

400mlHeavy cream
40gGranulated sugar
6gSheet gelatin (~3 sheets)
1/2Vanilla bean

Strawberry gelée

10Fresh strawberries
15gBrown sugar
3Sheet gelatine (1,5 sheets)

Directions

Panna cotta

1
Soften the gelatin in cold water for at least 10 minutes. It should be ready when the cream is boiling.
2
Bring the cream, sugar and vanilla to a boil on medium heat in a saucepan
3
Remove the saucepan from the heat, squeeze the gelatin and incorporate in the cream
4
Strain the cream mixture into a clean container
5
Pour the cream into small glasses or cups (tip: choose them large rather than tall). Make sure to stir the mixture every time before pouring, otherwise the vanilla seeds will fall to the bottom. Refrigerate the panna cotta for at least a couple of hours.

Strawberry gelée

6
Once again, soften the gelatin in cold water
7
Mix the fresh strawberries
8
Strain the strawberry coulis to remove the seeds
9
Heat the strawberry coulis on medium heat to 50°C and incorporate the brown sugar
10
Incorporate the squeezed gelatin
11
Pour the strawberry gelée on the panna cotta
12
Optionally dip half a strawberry in the remaining gelée and place on top of the panna cotta.

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  • Rod
    June 2, 2014 5:28 am

    I love your website and thank you so much for sharing your journey with us. I have a question about the gelatin, how much water do you use to soft the gelatin? Is it the same amount of water for granulated version of gelatin? Keep up the good work.

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  • Rob
    June 2, 2014 10:48 am

    Hello Rod! Thanks! Actually there is no fixed amount for sheet gelatin: you just have to make sure that the sheets are soaking in cold water. Whether you put 1 inch of water or 3 liters, the final result won’t change as long as the gelatin is fully immersed.

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  • ofer
    September 3, 2016 8:04 am

    so i did this recipe with the AMAZING caprese..wow!
    thanks for sharing your knowledge!
    love the blog!

    Reply

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