Coconut panna cotta with passion fruit
Impress dinner guests with a tropical version of panna cotta with passion fruit, lime, mint and coconut flavours. It’s an ideal dessert for entertaining
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Prep:20 mins
Cook:30 mins
plus cooling and 3 hrs chilling - Serves 6
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 349
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fat 28g
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saturates 24g
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carbs 13g
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sugars 0g
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fibre 1g
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protein 11g
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salt 0.08g
Ingredients
- 2 x 400g cans full-fat coconut milk
- 6 tbsp coconut cream
- 50g coconut or light brown soft sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 4 gelatine leaves
- 4 limes , zested
- 4 passion fruits , halved
- 2 tbsp icing sugar (optional)
- desiccated coconut
- mint leaves
Method
Warm the coconut milk and cream, the sugar and vanilla in a pan over a low heat for 10 mins. Remove from the heat. Leave to cool for 5 mins. Meanwhile, soak the gelatine in a bowl of cold water.
Squeeze the excess water from the gelatine, then stir it into the hot (not boiling) coconut milk mixture along with most of the lime zest. Pour into six ramekins. Chill for 3 hrs to set.
Scoop the passion fruit pulp into a bowl and add the sugar to sweeten if needed. Serve the panna cottas topped with the passion fruit pulp, coconut, mint leaves and the remaining lime zest.
