Panna Cotta And Mango Jelly

Serves 4

Panna cotta is a rich creamy Italian dessert that tastes beautiful with mango jelly. The creamy flavour and texture of panna cotta goes beautifully with the fresh, clean, sharp flavours of fruit, mango jelly is particularly good.

Panna cotta and mango jelly is easy and simple to make, you need very few ingredients. It is a dessert that is hard to go wrong. A perfect dessert for a dinner party, you can prepare it the night before. If you are an amature chief it leaves you plenty of time to entertain your guests or worry about the main course. As well as being simple to make it taste delicious and looks beautiful.

Ingredients

For the panna cotta

• 3 gelatine leaves
• 250ml milk
• 250ml double cream
• 25g sugar

For the mango jelly

• 250ml Mango juice
• 1 ½  gelatine leaves
• 4 slices of ripe mango

Method

For the mango jelly

1. Soak the gelatine in cold water for 5 minutes.
2. Pour the juicy into a sauce pan and simmer.
3. Squeeze any excess water of the gelatine and add gelatine to mango juice.

For the panna cotta

1. Soak the gelatine in cold water for 5 minutes.
2. Pour the milk, cream and sugar into a sauce pan and simmer until sugar is discovered.
3. Squeeze any excess water out of the gelatine and add to the milk and cream, stir until gelatine is dissolved.

To finish

1. Divide half the mango jelly into 4 ramekins and place a slice of mango in each ramekin, leave to set in the fridge.
2. When set, divide half the panna cotta mix between the ramekins and refrigerate again until layer is set.
3. Pour the remaining mango jelly equally into the ramekins, leave to set then finish with a layer of panna cotta.
4. To serve, turn out panna cotta and mango jelly onto a plate. Serve with vanilla ice cream or a mango sorbet.