Vanilla and elderflower panna cotta

Curtis Blackmore

Curtis Blackmore

5th May 2013
Curtis Blackmore

Vanilla and elderflower panna cotta

Stove on medium 

Ingredients

  • 450 ml cream
  • 400ml milk (of your choice)
  • 165 g caster sugar
  • 3 large gelatine leaves
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • elderflower cordial to tast

Method

Soak gelatine leaves in cold water
Put cream, milk and sugar in a medium size pan
cut vanilla pod in half and run knife Down the open sides to get the inside of the pod out
put pod and seeds in the pan and put on stove for approximately 20 miminutes
take off when very hot
Squeeze gelatine leaves until excess water is removed
add to the hot pan of panna cotta and stir untildesolved
add elderflower to taste
pass through a mesh sift with a j-cloth inside the sift
put in a long shallow container
let the panna cotta cool down
put the panna cotta into molds
put in fridge to set

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