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EGGLESS STRAWBERRY MINT ICE CREAM
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Resting Time
6 hrs
 
Course: Dessert, Ice Cream
Cuisine: American, Indian
Author: Sangeetha Priya
Ingredients
  • Fresh Strawberries - 10-12 Numbers Large
  • Mint Leaves - 10-12 Numbers
  • Heavy Whipping Cream - 1 and 1/2 Cup
  • Whole Milk - 1/2 Cup
  • Sugar - 1/4 to 1/2 Cup as per your need
  • Salt - 1/8th tsp Pinch
  • Mint or Vanilla Extract - 1/2 tsp
  • Optional Red Food Color - A drop
Instructions
  1. Chill a glass bowl and whisk for at least 5 minutes in freezer or 30 minutes in refrigerator (Pic 5).
  2. Boil milk when it foams do reduce the flame and simmer (Pic 1) for 5-10 mins or till it thickens to 1/3 cup.
  3. When it is warm, add raw sugar/regular sugar if using (Pic 3) with mint leaves if using (Pic 2, refer notes section) and a pinch of Salt (Pic 4) then keep aside.
  4. Meanwhile wash and hull the strawberries (Pic 1) , I do have complete video tutorial for cleaning and storing it, do check it out for more details.
  5. Blend strawberries without adding any water (use any blender/extractor step by step Pic 4 above and Pic 9 below, keep aside).
  6. Now take the chilled bowl and hand whisk out of refrigerator (Pic 5).
  7. Do add cold whipping cream to the bowl.
  8. Now start whipping the cream (Pic 7), there is complete very detailed video for whipping cream do check it out HERE.
  9. Whip the cream until you see traces of cream getting thick (Pic 8) or soft peaks.
  10. You no need to whip cream to stiff peaks, just when cream gets thicken that's it.
  11. Watch the video at minutes, that stage is fine.
  12. Now filter the milk mint mixture (Pic 10) over blended strawberry puree.
  13. You can blend mint as it is with strawberries for strong mint flavor.
  14. If using powdered sugar add right now to the cream along with Strawberry Puree mixture (Pic 11) and vanilla extract.
  15. Whisk it again for few more mins, till all blends well (Pic 12).
  16. If using low fat cream, it looks like shown in Pic 13 & 14.
  17. Now cover the bowl with cling wrap and freeze it for 4-6 hours to set or overnight.
  18. After its well set (Pic 15 below), serve with Chopped berries/Chocolate Syrup (Pic 16)/Chocolate bits/Rolled Ice cream wafers.