Ingredients:
for the panna cotta
2 cups blackberries
1 1/2 cup heavy cream (divided use)
1 1/2 cups sour cream
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon gelatin
for the sauce:
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
zest of one lemon
Directions:
for the panna cotta:
Pour 1/2 cup of cream in a medium bowl. Sprinkle with gelatin. Set aside. Pour 1/2 cup cream, sugar and blackberries in a saucepan. Cook until boiling, mashing the blackberries and stirring occasionally. Strain (mashing the berries to get all of the juice out) into the gelatin/cream mixture then pour in the remaining cream. Discard the pulp. Mix to dissolve the gelatin. Place the sour cream in a separate bowl. Strain the blackberry/gelatin mixture into the sour cream. Mix thoroughly. Pour into ramekins (the total yield is about 48 oz so divide accordingly).
Refrigerate at least 6 hours or overnight to set. To unmold, dip the bottoms of each ramekin into hot water then invert onto a plate. If they are a bit stuck, run a knife along the edges before inverting.
for the sauce:
Bring all ingredients to a boil, cook until reduced to a sauce consistency. Allow to cool then drizzle over unmolded panna cotta.
My thoughts:
We planted a tiny blackberry bush last year and it has since grown to be about 7 feet tall. For a while we were getting just a few berries, but now we are up to about a cup a day! It was finally time to do something with them beyond just eating them straight from the vine or over yogurt. Panna cotta seemed like the perfect choice because it really lets the blackberry flavor shine through while still making it easy to strain out all of the blackberry seeds. And who doesn’t love a no bake dessert, especially during the summer? Lemon sauce seemed like a natural accompaniment because so many lemon flavored desserts come with a berry sauce or are garnished with berries. In this extremely creamy dessert the berries are the star and the lemons are just a sweet-tart accent.
That looks really good. I love blackberries in just about everything.
I am so jealous of your blackberry bush!!! Free food!
This is a cruel thing to read at 1AM because my mouth is watering…
blackberry bush? i’m so jealous! that’s what i find with homegrown fruit – once they start growing they just keep on growing and you get loads of fruit by the end of it. amazing 🙂
cute dishes. why have i never thought to make panna cotta in something other than a boring old glass. x
I love those star ramekins! Gorgeous!
My grandpa had a blackberry bush. One of my favorite memories with him is picking blackberries every summer.
I like Panna Cotta better than custard or cheesecake. This looks so good!
Cute little star molds! 🙂
I really have to try panna cotta one of these days, it always looks so creammy and delicious.
What a great summertime dessert! Cool twist on the berry/lemon flavor combo. I will have to try this recipe soon.
This looks delightful…no blackberries here, but we do have plenty of black raspberries and blueberries, so perhaps I’ll try with those.
Homegrown fruit is the best…we’ve 2 (baby) apple trees and plan to put in a few blueberry bushes ourselves. In fact…we may just plant a berry, since they were all picked from a local farm; clearly, the variety does quite well in the region, because they were more like trees.
Oh good lord that looks wonderful. I’m sitting here on a hot day wishing I had that to go home to!
My favourite dessert, my kids love it too, I got a recipe which is using milk and double cream the result come out nice too..
That look, well, luscious.
I make something similar, except I use agar agar instead of gelatin (who wants boiled pig feet in their dessert?). Still, I never made a version with blackberries. Something I clearly must do.
Cheers!