Yogurt Panna Cotta

A panna cotta is an Italian dessert made by simmering cream, milk and sugar and then mixing in some gelatin and letting it set. Over the last while I have been bookmarking a lot of panna cotta recipes and most of them call for a lot of heavy cream but I came across a few yogurt based panna cottas where a lot of the cream is replaced with yogurt making it just a little bit healthier. Luckily a brand of 0% fat Greek yogurt has recently started showing up in grocery stores here in Toronto and I used that. Since I was going to have a strawberry jelly topping, I decided to keep the flavouring of the panna cotta itself to a simple vanilla flavour using the seeds of a vanilla bean. 

Yogurt Panna Cotta

Vanilla yogurt panna cotta.

ingredients

• 1 envelope unflavoured gelatin (2 1/4 teaspoons)
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 vanilla bean (split and seeds scraped)
• 1 (16 ounce) container Greek yogurt

directions

1. Sprinkle the gelatin into the water in a bowl and let sit until softened, about 5 minutes.
2. Bring the cream, sugar and vanilla seeds to a simmer in a small sauce pan until the sugar has dissolved.
3. Remove from heat and mix in the gelatin.
4. Whisk the yogurt in a bowl until smooth.
5. Whisk the cream into the yogurt.
6. Pour the mixture into 6 1/2 cup ramekins (or the equivalent) and chill in the fridge for at least 3 hours.

Strawberry Jelly

Strawberry jelly with fresh strawberry puree.

ingredients

• 1/2 envelope unflavored gelatin
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1 cup strawberry puree
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/4 cup sugar

directions

1. Sprinkle the gelatin into the water in a bowl and let sit until softened, about 5 minutes.
2. Simmer the strawberry puree, lemon juice and sugar until the sugar is dissolved.
3. Mix the gelatin into the strawberry mixture.
4. Remove from heat, let cool, pour it into what you want and chill in the fridge until set.

https://www.closetcooking.com/2010/06/yogurt-panna-cotta-with-strawberry.html