Dried rose petals and vanilla bean panacotta recipe

Dried rose petals and vanilla bean panacotta recipe

Ordered for dried rose petals with my online grocer on impulse, the house smelled nice when it was delivered. But the problem starts when you have no idea how to use it up!.. yes , the story starts there. Posted my query in a cooking group where I got few suggestions and panacotta was one among it. Checked for recipes but nothing satisfied me, so just read few recipes and came up with one of my own. That's what earning is about , right? Anyway ..the result is here though it got a bit scratched when I was un moulding it into a plate. Never mind, will be more careful next time and i guess this can be pardoned as long as it tastes good too. 

But wait..there is a saying 'the dessert needs to be spectacular because it is served then the gourmand is no longer hungry' . In that case this is not to the mark. ;)

Coming to the recipe

Ingredients

Milk - one cup

Fresh cream- one cup

China grass/ agar agar - 5 gms dissolved  in 50 ml water

Sugar - 3-4 tbspn

Vanilla bean - half of one bean or few drops of essence.

Dried rose petals - 3 tbspn packed

Method

Keep ready 4 small bowls or ramekins smeared with a little oil.

Mix the milk, cream, the petals and scrape out the vanilla bean and warm it up

Melt the china grass in water in microwave.

Pour a little of milk cream mixture into the melted china grass and then mix well and then add this to the whole of the milk and cream mixture.

Sieve this mixture into prepared moulds and let it sit in the fridge for few hours. If you want a firm panacotta, let it rest overnight.

Slowly remove the panacotta from the sides and unmould it into a plate or scoop and eat from the mould itself. Either way you wish.

Make and enjoy 

thanks!

Chaithanya