Panna Cotta With Orange Toffee/caramel Sauce

Panna cotta is an Italian dessert made by simmering together cream, milk and sugar, mixing this with gelatin, and letting it cool until set. Its from Italian region of Piedmont.

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   1. soak gelatine leaves in little cold water till soft.
   
   2. place milk,cream, sugar and vanilla pod in a pan and bring to the boil.
   
   3.remove from heat and take vallina pod out.
   
   4.squeeze water out of the gelatine leaves, add to the mixture and whisk untill all the gelatine leaves have dissolved.
   
   5.Pour mixture through a sieve into a jug and the pour into 4 dariole moulds or 4 ramikins and place in fridge to set leave in fridge for at least 3 hours. meanwhile make your sauce.
   
   FOR THE SAUCE:
   
   6. Melt butter and sugar in a pan on a low heat.
   7. Add orange juice and star annise and simmer until smooth and think about 5 minutes on a medium heat still.
   
   8. take of heat and stir in the orange zest.
   
   9.plate up the pannacotta my putting it in hot water to soften the panna cotta up and tip upside down onto a plate or a bowl and pour the orange caramel sauce over the panna cotta and sprinkle some crushed toasted almonds over the top and stick a raspberry in the the middle on top of the desert.
   
   10. serve the desert.