Mango Panna Cotta

The eldest brother came over to my place a few days back. I cooked Asam pedas fish as it is one of his favorites. Obviously, I had to make a dessert as well. I am someone who wants to overdeliver when it comes to entertaining guests. It does not happen every time but if I had my way, I would want a table full of deliciousness for the visitors. My mom would be the one to put a stop to my over-enthusiasm. Anyways, as I was saying, I wanted to make a dessert for my brother and his family. I have been doing a lot of cooking/baking recently and I was absolutely knackered to make something elaborate so I knew that this dessert would require,

After a bit of brainstorming, I decided on Panna cotta. For those of you who are not familiar with panna cotta, it basically means “cooked cream” in Italian. It is as simple as bringing together some cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla. You then add some gelatine to the mixture and let it set in the fridge. You get this rich silky-smooth custard-like consistency dessert. Delicious on its own but if you top it up with fruits or some kinda Coulis, you would be bringing it a level up.

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Mango Panna Cotta

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

20 mins

 

Author: Maya Kitchenette

Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 2 cups whipping cream
• 1 cup milk
• ⅓ cup sugar
• 3 tbsp water
• 1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

Topping

• 2 ripe mangoes
• 1 tbsp sugar (if your mangoes aren't sweet enough)

Instructions

For The Panna Cotta

1. In a bowl, add the 3 tbsp of water and gelatine. Microwave till dissolved.
2. Alternatively, you can melt the gelatine + water in a small saucepan, over low heat too.
3. Keep the gelatine mixture aside.
4. In a saucepan, add cream, milk, and sugar.
5. Cook till this mixture almost reached a simmer. Do not boil.
6. Add the gelatine and cook this for another minute.
7. Take off from the fire.
8. Pour into little cups or any other containers you prefer.
9. Once cool, cover and chill in the fridge for at least 4 hours or overnight.

For the mango

1. You can just cut up the mango into cubes and top them on the chilled panna cotta
2. Alternatively, In a food processor, puree 1 of the mango with some sugar.
3. Cut the other mango into chunks.
4. Top the panna cotta with the mango chunks and mango coulis.

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