Recipe: Green Tea Ice Cream

#blogjune Day 1

Since I got an ice cream maker a few months ago, I started experimenting and have been eating too much ice cream 🙂 It’s a lot of fun and I’d like to make ginger ice cream next. I made a batch of green tea ice cream for our house warming party and since then, that is what we’re asked to bring to dinner parties. I guess I must be doing something right and I should share the recipe.

This recipe is derived from the Cuisinart recipe booklet and it contains instructions that require a Thermomix. Of course you can achieve the same result without it, it’s just so much easier to make the perfect ice cream mixture with one.

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole milk
• 1 tub thickened cream (300ml)
• 4 tablespoons green tea powder
• 5 egg yolks
• 3/4 cup castor sugar
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch

1. In a saucepan bring milk, cream, and green tea powder to a low simmer, stir with a whisk to dissolve as much green tea powder as possible.
2. Remove milk mixture from heat, stand for at least 15 minutes.
3. In Thermomix, mix egg yolks, sugar, and cornstarch for 2 minutes speed 6 or until mixture is thick and pale.
4. Scrap down side of bowl, at speed 1, slowly pour warm milk mixture into the the egg mixture.
5. Mix and cook mixture for 4 minutes speed 3 at 70°C until thick
6. Pour into a glass container through a strainer
7. Cover with a sheet of cling wrap directly on top of the mixture
8. Refrigerate at least 6 hours or overnight
9. The mixture is now ready for churning according to your ice cream maker manufacturer’s instructions

This recipe makes just over 1L of ice cream and can be stored in an air tight container in the freezer for 3 days. No it didn’t last that long, I just ate the last bit 😉