Summer flowers; chamomile panna cotta, rose ice cream and lavender sorbet

  • medium
  • 10
  • 60 minutes plus 2 days to infuse, freeze and set
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This simple yet highly flavoured dessert from Harriet Mansell celebrates the flowers of Summer in a creamy rose-infused ice cream, floral chamomile panna cotta and a perfumed lavender sorbet. 

First published in 2022

Ingredients

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Rose ice cream

  • 70g of caster sugar
  • 70g of glucose
  • 3 tsp stabiliser
  • 1 tsp Stabiliser powder
  • 750ml of whole milk
  • 180ml of single cream
  • 100g of rose petals, (fresh)

Lavender sorbet

  • 350mm of water
  • 125ml of caster sugar
  • 1.5g of Stabiliser powder
  • 5g of lavender
  • 1/4 tbsp of liquid stabiliser
  • 1/4 lemon, peel, sliced off in strips

Chamomile panna cotta

  • 1 chamomile teabag, or equivalent dried, steeped in 300ml hot water then left to cool
  • 300ml of double cream
  • 35g of caster sugar
  • 35g of honey
  • 2 1/2 gelatine leaves, bloomed in cold water

To serve

  • 1 handful of rose petals, (fresh) chiffonade just before serving to prevent discolouration

Equipment

  • Ice cream maker
  • Panna cotta moulds

Method

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 minutes

  • 70g of caster sugar
  • 70g of glucose
  • 3 tsp stabiliser
  • 1 tsp Stabiliser powder
  • 750ml of whole milk
  • 180ml of single cream
  • 100g of rose petals, (fresh)
2

Once infused, strain, churn and freeze. Harriet uses a pacojet, but you can use an ice cream machine

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 maker

  • 350mm of water
  • 125ml of caster sugar
  • 1.5g of Stabiliser powder
  • 5g of lavender
  • 1/4 tbsp of liquid stabiliser
  • 1/4 lemon, peel, sliced off in strips
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 boil

  • 1 chamomile teabag, or equivalent dried, steeped in 300ml hot water then left to cool
  • 300ml of double cream
  • 35g of caster sugar
  • 35g of honey
  • 2 1/2 gelatine leaves, bloomed in cold water
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 overnight

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

  • 1 handful of rose petals, (fresh) chiffonade just before serving to prevent discolouration
First published in 2022

Following years spent working on yachts as a private chef, Harriet Mansell returned to South West England, where she grew up, to open her debut restaurant Robin Wylde. Both there and at her second restaurant Lilac, she imaginatively showcases her love of wild food, which has developed over the course of her career.

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