Milk and honey panna cotta with apricots recipe

Milk and honey panna cotta with apricots

For a tasty treat, try this creamy panna cotta with tender, poached apricots.

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  • Serves 6
  • 10 mins to prepare and 10 mins to cook and 3 hours to cool
  • 320 calories / serving

    Ingredients

    For the honey panna cotta

    • 6 fine gelatine leaves
    • 200ml (1⁄3pt) double cream
    • 600ml (1pt) whole milk
    • 75g (3oz) runny honey
    • 2 vanilla pods, seeds reserved

    For the poached apricots:

    • 50g caster sugar
    • 1 vanilla pod, seeds reserved
    • 6 fresh apricots, halved

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    Each serving contains

    Energy
    1325kJ 320.0kcal
    16%
    Fat
    22g
    high31%
    Saturates
    14g
    high70%
    Salt
    0.1g
    low0%
    Sugars
    26g
    medium29%

    of the Reference intake

    Carbohydrate 26.2gProtein 5.6gFibre 0.9g

    Method

    1. Soak the gelatine leavesin cold water for 5 minutes until soft. Put the cream, milk, honey,vanillapods and seeds into a pan and bring to the boil; remove from the heat and discard the vanilla pods.
    2. Squeeze out the gelatine leaves, stir into the mixture until dissolved, then strain into a jug.
    3. Rinse 6 x 150ml dariole moulds with cold water, but don’t dry them. Divide the mix among them, leave to cool, then chill for 3-4 hours, or until set.
    4. To make the poachedapricots, put the sugar, vanilla pod and scraped-out seeds into a pan filled with 300ml (1⁄2pt) water. Place on a low heat until the sugar dissolves. Add the apricots and simmer for 5 minutes, until tender. Leave to cool.
    5. To serve, dip the base of the moulds in hot water, loosen around the inside edge with a small knife, then turn onto the plates. Serve with the apricots.

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