Panna cotta is a classic, delicate Italian pudding dessert with a smooth custard like texture. It can be made 1 or 2 days in advance and it’s so easy to make this dessert at home. You can either top it with a coulis, or chocolate or caramel sauce. This raspberry panna cotta is definitely a Christmas dessert that will impress your guests when served. The pudding and raspberry sauce pair well, and looked really festive. It’s also a healthier dessert as there is very little sugar added.
1 tsp gelatin powder (about 7g), soak with 1 tbsp of water for 2 minutes
Raspberry coulis
150g frozen raspberry
60g water
75g caster sugar
1 tsp corn flour
Instructions
Pour whipping cream, milk and sugar into a pot and boil at medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolved. Add in soaked gelatin and stir till melted and boil for another 1 minute.
Pass cream mixture through a sieve directly into serving cups or moulds, Cool and refrigerate for at least few hours or overnight to set.
To serve, pour some raspberry coulis over pudding and fresh raspberry on top. Dust with some icing sugar if prefer.
To make raspberry coulis – add all the ingredients into a small pot and boil at medium heat. Stir constantly for about 5 minutes and mash raspberries with a rubber spatula or a spoon until raspberries slightly thickened. Then press raspberries through a strainer to extract as much liquid as possible and set aside to cool.