Panna Cotta

Easy dessert to make, delicious to eat.

Panna Cotta can be enriched with wild berries, strawberries, chocolate, or caramel sauces; sprinkled with chopped pistachios, almonds, or walnuts. Simply, you can choose according to your own taste and imagination.

It is very well known worldwide and it seems to be a very trendy dessert in Japan! As it is made with cream, some other European countries have their own recipes: the one I write here is strictly Italian from the region of Piedmont and today is considered a national recipe.

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Good to Know

Panna Cotta literally means Cooked Cream, which is how it is made.

You will need 5-6 individual stainless steel pudding moulds. Do not use silicone ones, as the cream poured into them is liquid, and that would not be a good choice, would it?

Get started to make the best panna cotta ever!

Ingredients serves 5

1. Double cream,  500 ml

2. Milk,  100 ml

3. Sugar, 100 g

4. Leaf gelatine,  10 g

5. Vanilla pods,  1

1. To make the sauce

2. Wild berries,  250 g

3. Lemon juice,  half

4. Sugar, 60 g

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Let’s jump to the method

1. Start by soaking the leaf gelatine in cold water for about 15 minutes.

2. Pour the milk into a small pan and warm it up at a low temperature without bringing it to a boil. Remove from the heat.

3. Squeeze the leaf gelatine to get rid of the water, then add it to the milk. Stir until the gelatine is dissolved. Set aside.

4. Cut along the vanilla pod and scrape out all the seeds with a knife. Set aside.

5. Pour the cream into a medium-sized pan. Add the sugar and the vanilla pod with its seeds and cook at a low temperature until it starts bubbling, then remove it straight away from the heat.

6. Add the milk with the gelatine to the cream. Stir and remove the vanilla pod. Set aside.

7. Put 5-6 individual pudding moulds (ideally stainless steel) in a container with very cold water for a few minutes: it will help later to transfer the Panna Cotta to a plate. Dry them out and with a ladle pour the cream into the moulds. Cover them with cling film. Keep in the fridge for 4 to 6 hours to set.

8. Meanwhile, prepare the wild berries sauce.

9. Put the berries in a pan with the sugar and the lemon juice. Cook at a low temperature for about 5-7 minutes or until the juice is formed, keeping a bit of the fruit's shape. Let it cool down.

10. Once the Panna Cotta is nicely firm and cool, put the moulds in hot water for half a minute, then put the serving plate on top to transfer it to the plate itself.

11. Enrich it with a couple of tablespoons of the fruit sauce and decorate with some of the berries.

12. The best panna cotta recipe you have ever encountered: enjoy it!

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