Italian cuisine · Desserts & Sweets

Panna Cotta

Silky cream custard with a berry sauce.

Ingredients · for 4 servings

• 500 ml cream
• 80 g sugar
• 1 vanilla bean
• 4 sheets gelatin
• Berries

Instructions

1. Soak the gelatin in cold water for 5 min; scrape out the vanilla bean.
2. Heat the cream with sugar, vanilla and the pod (don't boil) and take off the heat; remove the pod.
3. Dissolve the squeezed gelatin in the hot cream while stirring until fully melted.
4. Fill into ramekins, cool and chill for at least 4 hrs until the panna cotta wobbles silkily.
5. Dip the ramekins briefly in hot water, unmold and serve with berry sauce.