Easy Apple Panna Cotta | With Just 4 Ingredients | Italian Dessert – Cooking with Thas

Apple Panna cotta, a delicious Italian dessert…

Panna cotta is one of the easiest desserts that can be whipped up with very few ingredients. It’s rich, velvety & will melt in your mouth. It’s basically cooked cream, in Italian Panna cotta means cooked cream. After I went apple picking, I’ve apple abundance in my kitchen & I’ve been turning apples into sweet & savory dishes.

When I had to make a dessert for Thanksgiving dinner, I couldn’t think of anything but apple panna cotta. Pureed apples were added to the cooked cream, as a thickening agent I’ve added agar-agar; panna cotta turned out to be delish. I couldn’t be any happier.

Over the years, I’ve experimented with panna cotta recipe & tried with different fruits: here are the recipes:

5 mins

Cook time

15 mins

Total time

20 mins

Author: Thasneen

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: Italian

Serves: 5 people

Ingredients

Apple, chopped- 2 (any sweet variety), pureed with ¼ cup cream
Cream- 2 cups (table cream or heavy cream)
Sugar- ½ cup
Agar-agar strands- ½ cup (2-inch slice) in ½ cup water
Chocolate, for garnishing

Instructions

As a thickening agent, I've added agar-agar strands. It's a vegetarian alternative to gelatin and is a seaweed.
If using strands, take ½ cup of 2 inche cut strands. Or use 1 tbsp powdered agar agar. Or use gelatin 1 tbsp soaked in 3 tbsp water.
Into a saucepan, add ½ cup agar agar strands & ½ cup water, cook over medium heat till agar dissolves in water.
On the Instant Pot-Select Saute setting, the temperature should be medium.
Or cook over stove-top in a saucepan.
Into the Instant Pot stainless steel pot, add cream & sugar; combine well.
Either table cream or heavy cream can be added, heavy cream will make the panna cotta very rich.
Cook for 2 minutes.
In a blender, puree apples with ¼ cup cream (Do not add water for pureeing, the color will change).
Add the pureed apples to the cooked cream & sugar, combine well.
Add the dissolved agar-agar, combine well.
Cook for 2 minutes.
Remove the stainless steel pot from the main pot.
Let cool down for a few minutes.
Pour into dessert bowls.
Chill in the refrigerator and let set for an hour to 2 hours.
While serving, garnish the panna cotta with grated or shaved chocolates.
Don't skip adding chocolate.
Tastes heavenly along with the chocolates.