Green tea Panna Cotta | Your recipes.. | Forum

Hi 

I've made a post on here in a different thread about Green tea Panna Cotta so it seems only fair that I should post a recipe (not mine) but here it is:

Makes 4

100ml milk

1 vanilla pod, split and seeds removed

3 green tea bags

350ml double cream

1 ¼  leaves of gelatine, soaked in water

70g icing sugar

30g caster sugar

150ml water

1 level tablespoon cocoa powder

100g dark chocolate, broken into pieces

Put the milk, vanilla pod and seeds, tea bags and half the cream in a small pan and slowly simmer for about 10 minutes until reduced by a third. Remove from the heat and extract the tea bags (put the mixture through a sieve if you’ve used loose tea or you tea bags have burst). Squeeze out the gelatine, discarding the soaking water, then stir the gelatine into the tea mixture and leave to dissolve. Allow to cool a little, then place in the fridge, stirring occasionally until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Remove the vanilla pod.

Whip together the icing sugar and the remaining cream. Mix the two cream mixtures together. Divide into four metal moulds (small glasses or cappuccino cups also work well). Cover and chill for at least an hour.

Meanwhile, place the caster sugar, the water and the cocoa in a small saucepan and bring to the boil. Take off the heat and stir in the broken chocolate. Stir until dissolved and warm briefly before serving.

To serve, sometimes I dip the mould or cup into some simmering water to loosen the panna cotta, then turn it out on to a plate and spoon the chocolate around it, or – especially if you feel the mixture is a bit wet – you can simply serve the dessert in its cup with chocolate sauce poured over the top.

Jo