White Chocolate Panna Cotta w/ Strawberry Sorbet

Panna cotta – this classic Italian dessert goes extremely well with an acidic strawberry sorbet and pistachios, Italy’s favorite nuts.

Enjoy!

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White Chocolate Panna Cotta w/ Strawberry Sorbet & Pistachios

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 4 hours 45 minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes

Servings 8

Ingredients

WHITE CHOCOLATE PANNA COTTA

• 3 leaves gelatine
• 700 grams pure cream
• 150 grams milk
• 60 grams caster sugar
• 100 grams white chocolate

STRAWBERRY SORBET

• 200 grams caster sugar
• 200 grams water
• 150 grams glucose
• 4 punnets strawberries
• 1 lemon

GARNISH

• 100 grams pistachios

Instructions

• It is best to begin this recipe the day before to allow the panna cotta to cool overnight.

White Chocolate Panna Cotta

• Soak the gelatine in a bowl of cold water.
• Combine the cream, milk, sugar in a saucepan and bring just below boiling, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Remove from the heat.
• Squeeze the gelatine to remove the excess water and add to the cream along with the white chocolate. Stir to dissolve.
• Strain the mixture through a fine strainer into a bowl over ice. Continually stir and cool the mixture to thickened but not set. Divide the thickened mixture between 8 moulds. Set in the fridge for 4 hours or overnight.

Strawberry Sorbet

• Combine the caster sugar water and glucose in a saucepan.
• Bring to the boil and cool.
• Reserve 1 punnet of strawberries. With the rest, remove the stalks and cut in half. Puree the fruit in a blender then pass through a fine sieve measure 500ml (17oz) of puree and add to it 150ml (5oz) sugar syrup and the lemon juice to taste.
• Reserve 100ml (3.4oz) of strawberry syrup for plating and churn the rest in an ice cream machine according to manufacturer instructions.

Plating

• Cut the remaining punnet of strawberries into random pieces and toss with the reserved syrup.
• Serve the panna cotta’s on large plates, spoon strawberries and juices around, scatter with pistachios and finish with a scoop of sorbet.

Notes

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