Desserts
Panna cotta with berry sauce
Silky vanilla panna cotta takes just a few ingredients and sets in the fridge. Serve with a quick berry sauce.

Servings in this printout: 6
Ingredients
- 400 ml heavy cream
- 100 ml whole milk
- 70 g sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar
- 3 gelatin sheets
- 250 g frozen berries
- 2 tbsp sugarfor the berry sauce
- 1 tbsp lemon juicefor the berry sauce
Method
- Soak the gelatin sheets in cold water for about 5 minutes.
- Heat the cream, milk, sugar and vanilla sugar in a saucepan until steaming. Do not boil.
- Take the saucepan off the heat. Squeeze the water from the gelatin sheets and dissolve them in the hot cream and milk mixture.
- Divide the mixture among six serving dishes and let it cool. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours to set.
- Heat the berries and sugar in a small saucepan. Simmer for 5 minutes, add the lemon juice and let cool.
- Spoon the berry sauce over the panna cotta before serving.
Nutrition per serving
Nutrition values are approximate estimates, not laboratory analyses. Products and portion size affect the result.
- Net carbs
- 23.22 g
- Total carbohydrates (incl. fibre and polyols)
- 24.59 g
- Protein
- 2.85 g
- Fat
- 25.96 g
- GL estimate
- about 10 / serving
Confidence · Low Some values or assumptions in the calculation are uncertain.
The calculation also uses comparison values from similar foods or food groups. Small amounts of carbohydrate were left out of the calculation.
Estimate details and sources ↗
How was the estimate calculated?
The serving’s GL is calculated from ingredient data. Confidence describes the evidence behind the calculation. Your blood sugar response may vary.
- heavy cream · Food group average
- whole milk · Food group average
- sugar · Food group average
- vanilla sugar · Food group average
- frozen berries · Food group average
- sugar · Food group average
Calculated ingredient-based estimate per serving, not a measurement of the prepared meal. All supported positive carbohydrate amounts are included. An unmatched individual portion under 1 g available carbohydrate per serving may be omitted only while all such portions total less than 2 g per serving; the omitted amount is disclosed. This is an editorial tolerance, not a clinical precision limit.
Small portions omitted: 0.04 g available carbohydrate per serving.
Research sources and technical details
Source names and technical notes appear in their original form.
- heavy cream ·
dairy-category-mean-gi-35 · fineli-631-2026-10-24 - whole milk ·
dairy-category-mean-gi-35 · fineli-689-2026-10-24 - sugar ·
sugar-syrups-category-mean-gi-58 · fineli-1-2026-10-24 - vanilla sugar ·
sugar-syrups-category-mean-gi-58 · fineli-1-2026-10-24 - frozen berries ·
fruit-category-mean-gi-51 · afcd-F009881-2026-10-24 - sugar ·
sugar-syrups-category-mean-gi-58 · fineli-1-2026-10-24
Carbohydrate data sources
- Kerma, kuohukerma, rasvaa 38 % · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- MAITO, TÄYSMAITO, D-VITAMIINIA 1 UG · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- SOKERI · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Gelatine, all types · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- Mixed berry, frozen · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- TÄYSMEHU, SITRUUNATÄYSMEHU, LAIMENTAMATON · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
GI and calculation sources
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · Category mean, not a measured GI for the recipe's cream cheese. (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · sugars and syrups category mean (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · fruit category mean; used only as a broad tamarind-paste analogue (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
Notes
- The total time includes chilling. Serve the panna cotta straight from the dishes it set in.