With Pick Your Own season well underway, what a perfect time to get in the kitchen with the fruits of your labour and we’re delighted that Jacqueline Wise has shared this Sussex style Vanilla Panna Cotta with us. Add a local gin to give it a real taste of Sussex.
Jacqueline Wise, founder and director of Positively Delicious shares this mouth-watering dessert recipe. Jacqueline is a Cordon Bleu Chef trained at Tante Marie Culinary Academy, and has worked at Buckingham Palace, The Ritz and Michelin Star restaurants. She also runs Kelmsley which caters for bespoke weddings, and Jacqueline Wise Chefs, a private dining offering. She loves to forage, garden, cook on fire, educate about regenerative food and build a like-minded community of nature-loving foodies who care about their own wellbeing and that of the planet.
Makes 6-8
For the panna cotta
600 ml of cream
400 ml of milk
120 g of sugar
1 vanilla pod
4 gelatine leaves, softened in cold water
For the gin-baked berries
200 g mixed berries
1 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp gin
- Pour the milk and cream into a saucepan with the sugar and vanilla seeds (to scrape the seeds out of the pod, use the back of a knife)
- Stir to combine and bring to a simmer, then remove from the heat. Take the gelatine out of the cold water and squeeze out the excess, then add to the milk mixture
- Stir until completely dissolved
- Pass through a medium sieve
- Tip into ramekins or glasses and place in the fridge to set for at least a couple of hours
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees
- Wash and cut fruit in half if required, then place on a baking tray, scatter over the sugar and 3 tbsp gin and bake for 15 minutes
- Allow to cool, pop into a bowl and add remainder gin for extra kick, chill
- To serve, turn each ramekin upside-down onto a serving plate. If the panna cotta won’t drop out, carefully dip the ramekin in a bowl of warm water to loosen it
- Serve with a generous spoonful of gin-baked berries
Jacqueline also runs Connection Through Cookery workshops and Foraging & Fire-Cookery Experience Days where you can learn creative de-stressing skills to last a lifetime and discover wild edibles, learn about their herbal powers, seasonal food and how to cook over fire while in a magical woodland setting.
These include herbal tea ritual welcome drinks, foraging walks, wild-inspired cocktails/mocktails and canapes, communal Fire Cookery Lesson with recipes using seasonal and foraged ingredients and cleansing smoke sticks/wild herb foot bath to finish. In short, they sound amazing and you can find out more and book here: https://www.positivelydelicious.co.uk/special-events
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