My Birthday with Lychee and Ginger Pannacotta


Pannacotta means “Cooked Cream”. This is an Italian dessert. This is so silky smooth and soft. These are perfect for parties. They can be made a day in advance and kept refrigerated until they are ready to serve. This is made by simmering together cream, milk and sugar, mixing this with gelatine and letting it cool until set. This is served with berries,  nuts and so on.



I saw this in a book called  “Vanitha pachakam”. The recipe was for plain pannacotta, but I just added lychee and grated ginger for some extra taste and they tasted perfect. I made this on my birthday which was on Saturday, 11th of June. Cakes have become common since they are made even without any occassion nowadays :-)

My birthday started with wishes from my dear and near ones, a surprise cake waiting for me in the kitchen (my Husband arranged that) followed by a sumptous lunch the next day. In all, I really enjoyed a lot. In the meanwhile I also made this dessert for the first time and it tasted lovely. Now this will be on my regular menu for special occasions.

The surprise cake at mid night



Ingredients:
  1. Milk- 1cup
  2. Amul Cream- 1cup
  3. Sugar- ½ cup
  4. Gelatin- 3tsp
  5. Ice Water-2tsp
  6. Lychee- 4 to 5 (pureed)nos
  7. Ginger (grated)- 11tsp
  8. Vanilla Essence- 2tsp

Method:
  1. Take gelatin in a bowl and sprinkle water over that and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes.
  2. Mix milk, cream, ginger and sugar in sauce pan and heat it on low flame. Once the sugar is dissolved, remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
  3. Melt the gelatin in microwave oven for 10 to 12 seconds. Stir well.
  4. Add this melted gelatin into the milk - cream mixture and stir until dissolved. Add the pureed lychees and leave the cream mixture to cool.
  5. Pour this in glass bowls, chill them until firm for about 2 to 3 hours. I have kept it over night.


At the time of  serving
  1. Run a sharp knife around the edge of each pannacotta and unmold each on a serving plate and garnish as desired.
  2. You can also demold by dipping the bowls in hot water for ½ minute. The dessert will easily come out on serving plate.


At the time of serving I didn’t had anything which I mentioned before for garnishing. So I used jam. I poured little warm water in 1tbsp of jam and mixed it well. Poured this over the pannacotta and decorated with some lychees.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Vegetarian portobello 'Babi Pangang' Recipe

Image
  Remove the stems of 3 portobellos and slice them in 4 mm slices. Mix 2 tbsp ketjap manis , 2 tbsp sweet chili sauce, 1/2 tbsp five-spice , a pinch each of garlic powder , ginger powder ánd cayenne pepper then stir in the portobello slices to marinate. Bring 1/2 l water to the boil with 1,5 dl white wine vinegar, 1,5 tbsp caster sugar, 1 star anise , salt and a laurel leaf Use a mandoline to slice 2 carrots into thin matchstick-sized strips and slice 1/2 oxheart cabbage very thinly. Mix them in a bowl, then pour over the boiling water. Cover with clingfilm. Mince 1 shallot, a clove of garlic, a 20g piece of fresh ginger and 1/2 red chili pepper, then sweat in a tsp arachide oil Add 20g tomato paste and briefly sweat. Then add 2 tbsp sweet chili sauce , 1,5 tbsp soy sauce , 2 tbsp ketchup and a splash of water and boil softly.Finally add  1/2 tsp five-spice and keep warm Drain the portobello slices then dust them with 50g Maizena  corn starch , using 2 hands
Read more

Crispy braised Iberico pork collar Recipe

Image
It is not cheap, but if you come across it don't hesitate and buy an   Iberico  pork  collar  (aka boneless neck, Cabecero). Mine was 1800 g. It is a well marbled, exquisitely flavorful cut that can be roasted, braised, or sliced into steaks for quick searing. ... While  iberico  is best known for the famous slow-aged hams, the other cuts are succulent, moist & delicious. I made pulled pork from one half. Today I made this from the other half. First I peeled, halved and then sliced 800 g of onions and sweated them in 40 g of butter, turned the heat up a bit and softly fried them for about 40 mins, nicely caramelised and brown. Took out the onions and added some more butter in the pan to sear the meat. Then turned the heat down again and added  sea salt, black pepper, 3 tbsp  Worcestershire  and 6 finely hacked cloves of garlic , 1.2 liter of beef stock , the reserved onions and 2 leaves of laurel . Put the lid on and let it simmer for 3 hours. Then I took out the oni
Read more

Pani Puri with Homemade Puris

Image
P ani Puri is one of my favorite chaats from childhood. Whenever we go out, we used to thoroughly enjoy the chaat from the roadside street vendors. In every nook and corner, you can see a pani puri stall. We used to have competition, as who will have more puris. Every Indian like pani puri to the core. It is said that this not only satisfies your taste buds but also keeps the kid in you alive. Once during fasting time, in Bangalore, after breaking the fast I had 30- 35 pani puris without eating anything. I like to have them anytime of the day. After coming to the US it has become very rare to find pani puri. We will get the pani puri kit in all the Indian stores. I started making it from scratch as we don’t find the puris most of the time in stores. My daughter loves it a lot. She won’t eat anything else if pani puri is there for snacks. Pani puris have different names like the puchkas, gol gappas and so on. Pani means water and puri are the fried puffed dough balls. Yesterday was my s
Read more