Elder Flower Panna Cotta 2

Those who have been on one of our food courses will know that we try to be a little creative with our cooking.  We’ve done elder flower panna cotta a couple of times now at our woodland camp and they’ve gone down well.  They taste absolutely fantatsic and there are still elderflowers about.  They will set overnight in a cool box.  The quantities below are for 6.

Ingredients

• 6 elder flowers
• 450g of double cream
• 150 ml of milk
• 1 vanilla pod or tps of vanilla extract
• 2 gelatine sheets
• 3 tbs of icing sugar
• 225g of greek yogurt

How to make elder flower panna cotta

• Put the cream and milk in a wide bottomed pan
• Split the vanilla pod and scrape into the pan
• Stir into a cream
• Shake the elder flowers to remove any bugs
• Put the elder flowers into the mixture and leave for a couple of hours

• Give the flowers a shake as you take them out

• Put the pan on a low heat and simmer for 5 minutes
• Meanwhile, soak the gelatine sheets in a bowl of cold water
• Remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the icing sugar
• When the sugar has dissolved add the drained gelatine
• Pour in the yoghurt and then whisk

• Pour the mixture through a sieve balanced over a jug
• Pour into 6 ramekins and put in a cool box to set

We identify, collect and cook with a wide range of plants on our 1 Day Spring Forage.  You can see loads of photos from that, and all of our other courses, on our Facebook page.