Panna cotta is an Italian dessert, precisely from Piedmont, to which I am particularly attached. Today I’ll explain how the original recipe is prepared.
Panna cotta is a dessert with a spoon, it is prepared only with egg whites, cream, vanilla, sugar and honey. No jelly!
It can be served plain, or accompanied with caramel or chocolate, or with berries.
So we have to start from the beginning. If we think of a traditional recipe, we must identify ourselves with the origin in which it was born and as is often the case in these cases, we realize that ingredients such as fish glue (gelatin) and agar agar were not even there. But without going too far back in time, it’s enough to ask your grandmothers, mine are over 80, to discover that some ingredients didn’t really exist.
All this to tell you to leave that pack of jelly aside and try the real panna cotta! Try it to believe it.
I leave you with the recipe for the Thermomix vanille panna cotta.
See you for the next recipe!
Nea!
Thermomix Vanille panna cotta
Ingredients
- 500 ml fresh cream (liquid)
- 4 whites egg
- 80 gr sugar
- 30 gr honey
- vanilla enough
Instructions
Put the cream, honey, sugar and vanilla in the bowl, cook: 5 min. 80° speed 3 and set aside.
Without washing the bowl, place the butterfly and add the egg whites, mix: 1 min. speed. 3.
Remove the butterfly, set to speed 3 and add the mixture of cream, honey and sugar (the one set aside) from the hole in the lid, continue for 20 seconds.
Pour the mixture into a single mold (or 4 single-portion molds), place the mold in a slightly larger container with a high edge into which to pour the water (for the water bath).
Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C for about 1 hour or 1 hour and a half (if the surface tends to darken, cover with a sheet of aluminum foil).
When cooked, remove the cake from the oven and leave the mold in the water until completely cooled.
Once cooled, seal the mold with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours (preferably overnight).
Unmold onto a serving plate and serve… Buon appetito!
Recipe Notes
I find natural panna cotta delicious, but if you prefer you can serve it with caramel, berries or chocolate.
