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Panna Cotta with Forest Fruits
Ingredients
Step by step process
Preparing the panna cotta
- 1
Place the gelatin leaves for the panna cotta in a bowl of cold water and let them soak slowly for five minutes, so they soften nicely and dissolve well during cooking.
TIP:Place the gelatin in cold water for 10-15 minutes, never in hot water. Cold water prevents clumping and ensures even dissolution. Blooming is the first and critical step before dissolving in hot liquid.
- 2
Slice the vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape out the seeds with the tip of a knife.
TIP:Cut the pod lengthwise with a sharp knife and scrape out all the black seeds. These are the most precious, use them in cream or syrup. Then macerate the empty pod in sugar or alcohol.
- 3
Pour the whipping cream into a pot and add the caster sugar, the vanilla seeds and the scraped pod. Warm it slowly just below boiling point while stirring constantly, until the sugar dissolves and the mixture swirls with gentle steam.
Dissolving the gelatin and setting
- 4
Take the pot off the stove and remove the vanilla pod.
- 5
Squeeze out the soaked gelatin and stir it into the hot cream until it dissolves completely.
- 6
Pour the finished mixture into four molds or glasses and let it cool to room temperature.
- 7
Cover the molds and place them in the fridge for at least 4 hours, ideally overnight, until the dessert sets firmly.
Forest fruits and serving
- 8
Rinse and pat dry the blueberries and raspberries, then mash half of the raspberries with a fork into a coarse sauce.
- 9
Decorate the set dessert with whole blueberries and raspberries and pour the raspberry sauce over the top.
- 10
Serve chilled right after decorating, so the forest fruits stay fresh.
More tips:
If you do not have a vanilla pod, replace it with a teaspoon of good vanilla paste or half a teaspoon of vanilla extract and add it to the cream together with the sugar.
Instead of gelatin leaves you can use powdered gelatin. Five leaves equal roughly one level teaspoon, which you let bloom in two teaspoons of cold water.
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