I for Ice Cream!

The perfect end to every meal – a dessert. And what’s the perfect dessert? Ice cream of course! Age no bar, country no bar – ice cream is by far everyone’s favorite dessert, mine included. The cold, sweet, creamy yumminess has no equal. To add to the delight, it comes in various flavours – something for everyone’s tastes.

Ice cream is literally (and originally) the iced version of cream. However, it can be made from milk as well. It comes in various forms nowadays – sorbet, gelato, froyo, softy, etc. (I’m drooling as I’m writing!)

The Homemade Way

This recipe is straight from our kitchen – the easy way with no requirements for ice cream churners or machines or huge quantities of ice. The method is actually closer to a kulfi which is a traditional Indian ice cream. Whichever, it tastes delectable.

Ingredients:

Milk – 500 ml.

Sugar – 4 tbsp.

Custard Powder (vanilla) – 40g.

Method:

1. Mix the custard powder in 3/4 cup of milk (~150ml). Stir well till there are no lumps and it is a smooth mixture.
2. Boil the remaining milk (~350ml) till it has reduced to about 2/3 of its volume.
3. Add the sugar and boil for a further 10 minutes. Keep stirring or the milk will burn / stick to the bottom.
4. Now slowly add the custard mixture, stirring all the while. Boil for a few more minutes until the custard has started to thicken and turn off the heat.
5. Cool the mixture. It should be of a consistency slightly runnier than a gloopy custard.
6. Once cooled, pour into your designated ice cream bowl or moulds and freeze.
7. Half a day of freezing later, your home-made ice cream is ready!

You may add melted chocolate or strawberry or any flavour of your choice to turn this into a flavored ice cream rather than just plain vanilla. Personally, this method gives a sort of kesar type flavour and feel which I adore.

This post was written for Blogchatter A2Z challenge; Day 9 – Letter “I”.