Summer flowers; chamomile panna cotta, rose ice cream and lavender sorbet
This pretty dessert recipe celebrates the flowers of Summer with a rose ice cream, lavender sorbet and chamomile panna cotta.
- Cooking:
- Serves: 10 persons
Ingredients
- 70g of caster sugar
- 70g of glucose
- 3tsp stabiliser
- 1tsp Stabiliser powder
- 750ml of whole milk
- 180ml of single cream
- 100g of rose petals, (fresh)
- 350mm of water
- 125ml of caster sugar
- 1 ½g of Stabiliser powder
- 5g oflavender
- ¼tbsp of liquid stabiliser
- ¼lemon, peel, sliced off in strips
- 1chamomile teabag, or equivalent dried, steeped in 300ml hot water then left to cool
- 300ml of double cream
- 35g of caster sugar
- 35g ofhoney
- 2 ½gelatine leaves, bloomed in cold water
- 1handful of rose petals, (fresh) chiffonade just before serving to prevent discolouration
Instructions
Step 1
To make the ice cream, place all the ingredients in a pan and heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Leave to cool and infuse for 30 minutesStep 2
Once infused, strain, churn and freeze. Harriet uses a pacojet, but you can use an ice cream machineStep 3
To make the lavender sorbet, place the ingredients in a pan and bring to the boil then take off the heat, cover with clingfilm and leave to infuse and cool. Once cooled, freeze in a paco container ready to churn, or churn in an ice cream makerStep 4
To make the panna cottas, place all the ingredients apart from the gelatine in a pan and heat up – keep a close eye on it as it will easily foam over once it reaches the boilStep 5
Squeeze the water from the soaking gelatine then stir this into the heated cream. Stir until dissolved then pass through a fine sieve to remove the chamomile. Carefully pour into the moulds then place in the fridge overnightStep 6
To plate up, demould the panna cottas by sitting in a tray of hot water to loosen. Add a quenelle of the rose ice cream topped with chiffonade rose petals and a rocher of sorbet sat on the crumb