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Light and creamy strawberry panna cotta made with fresh strawberries! Serve topped with mixed berries for a delicious spring or summer dessert. Recipe makes 6 servings.
Panna Cotta (cooked cream) is an Italian classic, a softly set pudding you can throw together in minutes and make in advance. The dessert is also one that can be infused with almost any flavor imaginable, so it’s an ideal way to profile in season ingredients like fresh strawberries.
Silky smooth, each spoonful of this pretty pink strawberry panna cotta tastes of strawberries and cream clouds.
Topped with fresh berries, there’s no reason not to try this easy and impressive sweet at home for your next dinner party.
Strawberry Panna Cotta
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
Description
Light and creamy strawberry panna cotta made with fresh strawberries! Serve topped with mixed berries for a delicious spring or summer dessert.
Ingredients
- 2 tsp unflavored gelatin
- 2 Tbsp cold water
- 1 pound fresh strawberries, trimmed and quartered
- 1/2 cup sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- berries, for serving
Instructions
- Sprinkle gelatin over cold water in a small bowl, and let stand for 5 minutes. Combine strawberries, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook, mashing the berries with a spoon, until broken down and syrupy, about 8 minutes. Strain through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl, pressing firmly on solids.
- Return berry puree to saucepan; add milk and bring to a low simmer (look for small bubbles along the edge of the pan). Add the gelatin mixture and stir for 1 minute, until completely dissolved. Remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes. Whisk in heavy cream and lemon juice until smooth.
- Place six 4-ounce ramekins on a level tray. To avoid air bubbles on the surface, pour mixture through a fine mesh strainer into ramekins. Cover with plastic and carefully transfer to the refrigerator. Chill until firm, at least 4 hours or overnight. Serve topped with fresh berries.
Can one make this without the cream, using more milk instead?
Hi Liz! The heavy cream is necessary to provide enough fat for the correct texture.
I gave my mom a copy of this recipe the other day and she made it yesterday. The panna cotta is so delicious! One of her friends who is a panna cotta “officianado” absolutely adored it. We will be making it again and again. Thanks so much!
made these..the consistency was perfectly smooth but i used some frozen strawberries that were in the freezer… they didn’t have the delicious tang that fresh berries have. so..if you make them…use fresh berries! i will try them again with plumb red juicy strawberries.
Thanks Joan, glad these worked out for you! I so agree, there’s nothing quite so good as fresh berries :).