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VANILLA-BEAN PANNA COTTA WITH BERRIES Panna cotta is Italian for ‘cooked cream’. This dish is our signature dessert at Little Truffle and you will find a version of it at some of our other venues and on our catering menus. This dish is a great palate cleanser after a large family meal, and because you can make it in advance, it is by far my favourite chilled dessert. Daniel Ridgeway, Ridgeway Group
Preparation time: 45 minutes | Serves: 6
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
Strawberry jelly
Panna cotta
Panna cotta
1. Heat sugar and puree in a saucepan on a
600ml thickened cream 100ml Greek yoghurt 4 gelatine leaves (titanium strength) 150g caster sugar 1 vanilla pod Strawberry jelly 250ml strawberry puree 1 gelatine leaf (titanium strength) 50g sugar Rose granita
1. Place cream, sugar and seeds of the vanilla pod into a small pot on a low/ medium stove. Bring up to a simmer. 2. Soak gelatine leaves in cold water until they are soft then whisk into the cream. Take the cream off the stove to cool. 3. Once cream is cooled down a little, whisk in the yoghurt. 4. Pour mix evenly between six glasses. I
150ml strawberry puree
prefer using cognac glasses as shown
100ml water
in photo. Place in refrigerator to set for
10ml rose water
approximately 2 - 3 hours or until fully set.
Garnish
low heat until the sugar is dissolved. 2. Soak gelatine leaf in cold water until it is soft then whisk into puree. 3. Pour evenly over the set cream and return to fridge. Rose granita 1. Combine puree, water and rose water and place into freezer. 2. Once frozen scrape with a fork to make ice shavings. TO SERVE 1. Spoon granita into glasses on top of the
6 mint leaves (finely shredded)
panna cotta, and sprinkle mint, basil and
3 basil leaves (finely shredded)
edible flowers on top.
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