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Panna Cotta with Red Berry Sauce

Delicious Panna Cotta with Homemade Red Berry Sauce Recipe

4.8 (13) 10 min
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Panna cotta is a classic Italian dessert that's creamy and elegant!

Panna cotta is an Italian favourite with many variations, learn to make classic panna cotta at MaMa Florence cooking school at one of our cooking classes!

Here’s a recipe for panna cotta with a red berries sauce:

Ingredients

For Panna Cotta
• 100 g fresh milk
• 500 g fresh heavy whipping cream
• 80 g granulated sugar
• 1 whole vanilla bean pod
• 2 sheets gelatin or 3 g agar- agar

For red berries sauce
• 150 g fresh berries of choice
• 40 g granulated sugar
• 25 ml water

Preparation

For the Panna Cotta
• Bring heavy cream, milk, and sugar to boil in small sauce pot.
• If using agar-agar, add to cream and sugar mixture and boil together. If using standard gelatin,
soak gelatin in small glass or dish with cold water for 8-10 minutes. When softened, add to cream
mixture while still hot and allow gelatin to dissolve into cream.
• When ingredients have boiled and melted, divide evenly into 6 small dessert bowls.
• Allow to cool and place into fridge until solidified, and each serving holding its shape well.

For the red berry sauce
• Wash berries and coarsely chop after removing hull.
• In small saucepan place sugar and water over low heat and let it desolve.
• Add the previously washed berries and let cook for 10 minutes.
• Remove from the stove and blend it.
• Strain the sauce through a strainer to remove any seeds and skins and let it cool.

Finishing touches

Finish the dish
• Remove panna cotta from refrigerator, top with berry sauce. Serve chilled.

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Reviews

4.8 13 reviews

  1. I did a trial run a week before the dinner, which I recommend for anything you are serving to other people. The rehearsal taught me that my kitchen needs ten minutes less than the recipe says. On the night it was effortless. Nobody knew there had been a rehearsal.

    Emma L.

    Bristol, UK · July 2026

  2. First time making Italian food that tasted Italian rather than like my idea of it.

    Kate D.

    Melbourne, Australia · July 2026

  3. One step I had always done wrong, explained in a single sentence. Worth the whole page.

    Sanne V.

    Utrecht, Netherlands · June 2026

  4. Sunday lunch sorted for the foreseeable future.

    Nicole F.

    Charlotte, USA · June 2026

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