When Saher introduced us to bizarre ice creams a few days ago, I thought these ice creams are too exotic (yucky too as she said!) to be tried by ordinary mortals like you and me. Here is an exotic ice-cream that you could make at home and relish it too. Though green tea is used as an ingredient in ice creams, black tea is rarely used.( Or am I just ignorant?)
I found a recipe for an unusual ice cream that makes use of ginger, spices and our own Darjeeling tea as ingredients. Sounds like frozen masala chai for me though! Anyway, let’s get started with the ingredients first.
You’ll need:
1) 1-1/2 cups milk
2) 1-1/2 cups 10% cream
3) 1 slice ginger-root
4) Half cinnamon stick
5) 4 cloves
6) 4 cardamom pods
7) � tsp fennel seeds
8) 1 bay leaf
9) � cup black tea leaves
10) 6 egg yolks
11) 1/2 cup granulated sugar
12) Pinch salt
Here’s how you go about it:
1) Heat milk, cream and all the spices in a saucepan over medium heat until they form tiny bubbles around the edge of the pan.
2) Remove from heat and add tea leaves and cover it for 10 minutes so that the flavor is infused into it. Strain through fine sieve.
3)Whisk together egg yolks, sugar and salt slowly in a bowl and also add in the tea mixture.
4) Heat the whisked mixture over medium to low heat, stirring constantly until it thickens or for about eight minutes. Transfer it to square metal cake pan and wrap it up with a plastic sheet. Refrigerate it for about one and half hours.
5) Puree this in a food processor until smooth and freeze it again for 4 hours. If you are using an ice cream machine, follow the manufacturer’s instructions.
Try this and you won’t miss out your tea and at the same time get refreshed with this ice cream this summer. Don’t forget to tell us if you really enjoyed it!
