panna cotta gelato

[savvysearch]

How do I make a panna cotta gelato? Do you think it's as easy as a vanilla custard gelato minus the vanilla? Any recipes?

[pastrygirl]

Well, panna cotta is essentially cream, sugar, and gelatin, so I think adding eggs (in a custard base) would sort of make it not panna cotta. Likewise, I don't think you need gelatin since you're freezing it.

What qualities of panna cotta are you hoping to capture in your ice cream?

[chefpeon]

Isn't having panna cotta flavored ice cream sort of like having ice cream flavored panna cotta?

[Tri2Cook]

Isn't having panna cotta flavored ice cream sort of like having ice cream flavored panna cotta?

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Yeah, I think so. I'm not sure what the goal is here unless it's to sound interesting on a menu. In that case, just call a batch of eggless vanilla ice cream "panna cotta ice cream". Maybe use a little gelatin as the stabilizer so all of the base panna cotta ingredients are there. Artistic license to naming food happens all the time.

[chiantiglace]

whoever said they are making panna cotta gelato is pulling your leg. Thats like saying your making puff pastry cake. what?

Since panna cotta doesn't have a distinctive "flavor" you can't make it into another texture. It is panna cotta because of the texture. SO once you churn it, its not panna cotta, its eggless ice cream that seems to have gelatin in it for some reason.

There are plenty of recipes for icce cream that do not use eggs, so this idea is misconstrued, sorry.

[savvysearch]

Thanks. I figured it was probably some euphemism for flavorless ice cream. I tasted "panna cotta" gelato at the gelato counter at Whole Foods that I wanted to duplicate. I can't recall the taste. I thought it was eggy tasting but maybe I'm wrong.

[djyee100]

If it was eggy, maybe it was crema gelato, or custard gelato, a popular flavor in Italy. I would make it with some very flavorful milk or cream, like the Straus organic brand, & garnish it with fruit compote and/or cookies.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/vie...D-GELATO-103830

[savvysearch]

If it was eggy, maybe it was crema gelato, or custard gelato, a popular flavor in Italy. I would make it with some very flavorful milk or cream, like the Straus organic brand, & garnish it with fruit compote and/or cookies.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/vie...D-GELATO-103830

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Thanks you so much! I have a feeling that this might be the one. I'll give it a try.