Let’s make some beautiful Panna Cotta with fruits today! The recipe I include here is lighter, but it’s healthier and great for summer time🙂
👩🏫General guidance:
- milk: cream 1:2. Milk can be cow milk, coconut milk, almond milk. Cream is heavy whipping cream, can also substitute some with yogurt or sour cream.
- liquid : gelatin 3cups : 3.5 silver gelatin sheets or 1 bag of gelatin powder.
- I like to use gelatin sheets, it’s much simpler to melt.
🍮Panna Cotta Base:
- 1 cup milk, ~2 tbsp sugar, bring it to boil, then turn off stove.
- Put 3.5 gelatin sheets in cold water till soft (less than 5 minutes). And stir them into the milk (hot but not boil).
- Add 2 cups of whipping cream, mix well.
- Pour the liquid to cups: if you want to make an angled shape like I show in the pictures, use a shallower baking cup or muffin pans to keep your cup tilted.
- put in fridge for~2 hours.
That’s the Panna Cotta base. Then you can be creative for the toppings. Here are a few ideas:
- Fresh fruits
- Fruit jams: it’s more tasty with fresh made fruit jams. You can use strawberries, blue berries, or cherries, for example, add some sugar and boil till thick (~15 minutes).
- Make another fruit jelly layer: I tried two flavors, mango and grapefruit, this time.
Note that if you want to add a fruit jelly layer, you can do it after refrige the Panna Cotta base for about an hour, not 2 hours.
🥭Recipe to make the mango jelly:
- 3 mangos, make ~1.5 cups mango puree.
- 2 gelatin sheets softed in cold water.
- half cup mango juice or water, microwave for 40 seconds, and stir in the gelatin sheets to dissolve.
- Add the gelatin liquid to the mango puree, mix well.
- Pour the mixture on top of the Panna Cotta base. Shape it to the design you like.
- Refrige for another 2 hours
🍊Recipe to make the grapefruit jelly:
- ~2 grapefruits, peel and get the flesh. Yeah, that takes some work.
- slightly mesh it. This should roughly give you 1.5 cups juice with pulps. Add 1tbsp sugar
- 2 gelatin sheets softed in cold water.
- half cup grapefruit juice or water, microwave for 40 seconds, and stir in the gelatin sheets to dissolve.
- Add the gelatin liquid to the grapefruit puree, mix well.
- Pour the mixture on top of the Panna Cotta base. Shape it to the design you like.
- Refrige for another 2 hours