panna cotta

Non Panna Cotta

Panna cotta is a smooth, creamy Italian custard-type dessert that literally translates as ‘cooked cream’ in English, which to me sounds as charming as a boiled onion. Thanks English. This fine dessert is traditionally made with sugar, vanilla, cream, and gelatin as it’s binding and gelling agent.

If you’re trying to reduce your consumption of animal products, or already avoid animal products, you might consider avoiding the typical gelatin as it’s made from collagen that’s been extracted from by-products of the meat industry. That’s right friends, Jell-o is actually wiggly, jiggly, colourful blobs of animal.

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