Showing posts with label ice cream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice cream. Show all posts

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Feijoa Ice Cream

Yes, another new feijoa recipe. This is a pretty easy and reasonably healthy ice cream recipe. You just need to be prepared well in advance. No ice cream maker needed!
This one is from Nadia Lim
I chopped and froze the fruit days in advance which made preparation on the day I needed it easy.
The ice cream was great. Not too sweet and not too rich - almost a cross between ice cream and sorbet.
I will make this again. It would be pretty easy to have the fruit stored in the freezer and make it out of season.

I served it with White Chocolate Creme Brûlée. A bit excessive? Maybe. But it was good!






Feijoa Ice Cream

INGREDIENTS

500g scooped-out feijoa flesh
2 large bananas, peeled and chopped into 3-4 large pieces
½ cup cream
1/3 cup natural yoghurt
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla essence
¼ cup chopped crystallised ginger (optional)

METHOD

Line a large tray (that will fit in your freezer) with baking paper and arrange feijoas and banana on top in a single layer. Cover with cling film and freeze for at least 8 hours or overnight until frozen hard.
When ready to serve the ice-cream, place frozen feijoas and bananas in the bowl of a large food processor with a strong blade. Mix cream, yoghurt and vanilla together.
Add half of the cream mixture to the frozen fruit and turn on the motor to blitz everything together until smooth and well combined - add more cream mixture as necessary, until you have achieved an ice-cream consistency.
Add the crystallised ginger (if using) and very briefly pulse tojustmix it in with the ice-cream.
Scoop instant ice-cream into bowls and serve immediately, with sliced feijoas.



Monday, February 6, 2012

A New Toy

I've wanted an ice cream maker for ages but decided that we didn't have enough space for it and that we didn't need encouragement to eat ice cream.

I managed to convince myself this weekend that the ice cream makers on sale (60% off!) were small enough to find a home AND that I could make healthier sorbets.

If I'm honest my real motivation is to make home made ice creams and sorbets for special desserts. The appeal of alcoholic ice cream also has appeal.

My first attempt was a strawberry and raspberry sorbet. It was amazing.
The recipe came from the instruction book that came with my Sunbeam Ice Cream maker. My next job is to find a recipe that has a bit less sugar in it.

I can guarantee that there will be more frozen dessert posts to come.