Mango Cottage Cheese Pannacotta

Being lazy and eating mangoes are the only fun part of summer. This season is so oppressive, I feel like eating chilled desserts for all courses of my meal. So, I tried to whip up a pannacotta with homemade cottage cheese and mango which is creamy, delicate and fancy. Hey, don’t you worry. It can be made in a jiffy. I suppose even you wouldn’t want to stand in front of the stove for long.

RECIPE: Mango Cottage Cheese Pannacotta
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INGREDIENTS:

Homemade Cottage Cheese or Paneer* – 1 cup

Low fat milk – 1 cup

Sugar free – 12 packets or sugar - 1/4 cup

powdered Gelatine – 7 gms or 1 tbsp

Ripe Mango puree – 1 cup

METHOD:

1. Take paneer in a blender along with 4 tbsp. milk and run till it obtains thick batter like consistency.

2. Add sugar free or sugar to the remaining milk and heat till it reaches boiling stage. Then, remove from fire and let it cool.

3. Soak gelatine in 4 tbsp. cold water. Let this mixture stand for 5 minutes.
4. Add the bloomed gelatine to the mango purée and simmer it till the gelatine dissolves in the purée. Reserve 1/4^th cup of this mango purée for dressing in the later stage. 

5. To the paneer paste (obtained in step 1), add the milk and the remaining mango purée and mix.

6. Take this mixture into individual moulds until 3/4^th full. Refrigerate them for 45 minutes.

7. Now take the moulds and pour the remaining purée on top. Distribute the puree evenly among the moulds.
8. Again refrigerate and let them set for 6-8 hours or overnight.
9. Garnish with whip cream or cherries and serve.

Serves 6. 

Calories per serving:

With diet sugar: 70

With sugar: 97

Note:
If using sugar you can add 1/4th cup sugar instead.
For variation, you can try strawberry or pineapple puree. 

*Recipe for Low Fat Homemade Cottage Cheese or Paneer:

Boil half a litre of milk (slim milk or reduced fat milk) in a vessel. Add half a lemon and 1/4^th cup of curd and stir well.

The milk curdles and whey separates. Pour this into a muslin cloth and strain the mixture for about half an hour to obtain homemade cottage cheese or paneer.