This impressive make-ahead 'mini' dessert is fabulous for easy entertaining
Ingredients
1/2 cup milk
600ml thickened cream
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 1/2 tsp finely grated orange zest
1 vanilla bean, split lengthways
1 tbs boiling water
2 1/2 tsp powdered gelatine
600g Creative Gourmet frozen Mixed Berries
Method
To make panna cotta, place milk, cream, sugar and orange zest into a medium saucepan. Using a teaspoon, scrape vanilla bean seeds into pan then add the pod
Stir until sugar dissolves and bring slowly to the boil over medium-low heat. Cook over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat
Place boiling water in a small heatproof bowl. Sprinkle with gelatine and stir until dissolved. Set aside 3 minutes. Stir gelatine mixture into cream mixture
Strain cream mixture through a fine sieve into a heatproof jug
Evenly pour (using about 1/3 cup mixture per glass) into 10 x 1 cup capacity serving glasses. Cover each glass with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 5 hours or overnight until set
Before serving, defrost the frozen berries in a shallow bowl. To serve, spoon berries over the panna cotta
Sprinkle berries with icing sugar as the red currants in the mix are quite tart and require sweetening
Tips & Hints
Serves 10 for a 'mini' dessert.
If preferred, pour the panna cotta into 6 glasses for a larger dessert. Use any Creative Gourmet frozen Berries.
