Strawberry Panna Cotta

  

               Panna Cotta is an Italian dessert. It literally means cooked cream. It is made in few minutes. & its been a panna Cotta week at my home. Tried it once & me & my hubby have got addicted to it. Sharing the recipe with you all as well.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes


Ingredients:

• Heavy Whipping Cream 500 ml
• 50 ml cold milk
• Gelatin leaves 4
• Vanilla sugar or normal sugar 1/3 cup
• Vanilla essence 1 tsp
• 8-10 Strawberries

Method:

• Soak gelatin leaves in cold milk. Cut the leaves into 4 pieces so that the leaves are soaked fully. Leave it to rest for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, the leaves will soften & become spongy. Set aside.
• In a heavy bottomed pan, pour the cream & sugar. Heat it on low to medium flame. Keep stirring occasionally. The cream should be hot enough to let the gelatin dissolve in itself.  
• After around 15 minutes, the cream will be very hot. Now add to the gelatin milk mixture. Stir well until the gelatin is fully dissolved. Also add vanilla essence & stir.
• Grind 7-8 strawberries into a puree. Add this strawberries puree to the hot cream mixture. Chop the remaining strawberries into small pieces. Add this strawberries pieces also to the cream mixture. Stir well.
• Pour the cream mixture in small ramekin bowls. Let them chill. Chill atleast for 3 hours to let the panna cotta set.
• Serve it chilled.

Tips:

• Don't heat the cream on high flame otherwise the cream will stick to the bottom of the pan & burn.
• While unmolding the panna cotta from the bowls, first put the bowl in hot water for 2 seconds. Now remove the panna cota on a plate.

Gelatin Leaves.... I used.

Cut them into small pieces so that you need
 not add much milk to soak them

Soak them in chilled milk

Leave it aside for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, you will notice the gelatin leaves
will have softened. They are now ready to use.
 

Heat cream in a pan on low-medium flame
 for around 10 - 15 minutes..

Stir occasionally.

Add sugar & vanilla essence. Stir.

After 10 - 15 minutes, Switch off the heat.
Immediately add the softened gelatin leaves.

Also the leftover milk from the gelatin leaves.
 Stir well until gelatin is fully dissolved.

Grind 7 - 8 strawberries into a puree.

Add this strawberry puree to the cream.

Chop remaining strawberries into small pieces.
Add this to the cream.

Stir well.



Pour this mixture into bowls. Chill for atleast 3 hours until set.



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