Saturday, 6 August 2016

Chocolate Panna Cotta

Here is a perfect dessert treat, "Chocolate Panna Cotta" to celebrate the 4th year anniversary of "Poornima Cookbook"!

I am excited and thankful to my family, friends and followers for their encouragement & support throughout this journey.

Feedback from those trying my recipes, keeps me motivated to post more and more.

Pannacotta is a classic, popular, easy to make Italian custard. Pannacotta means "cooked cream" in Italian.

It is made by simmering together cream, milk and sugar; mixing this with gelatin and letting it cool until set. You can try out adding different flavours, but this one is for the chocolate lovers!

Check Vanilla-pannacotta-with-pomegranate jelly which is one of my earlier posts!

Let's go through the recipe now.


PREP TIME
10 min
COOK TIME
TOTAL TIME 
20 mins
                                                                                                                                                   
Recipe for Chocolate Panna Cotta
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 4 (approximately)

Ingredients:
Milk - 1 cup (250 ml)
Heavy Cream - 1 cup
Un-flavoured Gelatin - 2½ tsp
Sugar - 3 tbsp
Vanilla essence- 1 tsp
Dark chocolate - 150 g

Directions:

Sprinkle the gelatin over the ¼ cup of cold milk in a bowl and let it stand until the gelatin softens, for about 5 minutes.

Chop the chocolate into pieces and keep aside.

Melt the chocolate in double boiler method or in microwave; keep asde.

Just heat cream, remaining milk, sugar and vanilla essence in a pan over medium heat (do not boil).  Add the soaked gelatin and stir until dissolves.

Remove from the flame and add melted chocolate; mix well.

Divide the mixture among the serving bowls / glass and place it in the refrigerator for at least 2 to 3 hours or until completely set.

Once it is completely set, enjoy this lip smacking, creamy dessert!

Note:

Depending on the size of the glasses your setting time will vary; mine took approximately 2 hours to set.

If you want to prepare this for parties (large amount), just double or triple the quantity.



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