Tuesday 18 September 2012

Halva Ice-cream in three glorious flavors




Makes 1 liter ice-cream

You make a classic vanilla ice-cream first
 Ingredients
2 eggs
200ml (3/4 cup) caster sugar
250ml(1 cup) full cream milk
500ml(2 cups) cream
½ vanilla pod - inside scraped out

Method
Beat eggs and caster sugar in your mixing bowl until it is creamy and thick. Heat the milk and cream  and bring to just before boiling point. Add the cream, milk and vanilla if making vanilla ice-cream to the egg mixture. Pour into a plastic container and place in the freezer. After 15 minutes, take the container from the freezer and with a fork or whisk, just mix the ice-cream again to prevent ice-crystals from forming. Repeat the process again after 15 minutes and once more. Freeze until needed.

To make the other flavors:

Chocolate

When  heating the cream and milk, add 1 x 100g  70% chocolate to the mixture and allow to melt. Mix with the egg and sugar mixture. Now  crumble 50 gr Mediterranean Delicacies Chocolate Halva to the ice-cream mixture and  pop in the freezer or ice-cream machine. Follow rest of recipe as above.

Almond and Hazelnut

Make the basic vanilla ice-cream and add 125 ml chopped toasted, shelled hazelnuts and 50 g Mediterranean Delicacies Almond Halva  to the ice-cream mixture. Follow rest of method as above.

Pistachio
Make the basic vanilla ice-cream and add 125 ml chopped toasted, shelled pistachios  and 50 g Mediterranean Delicacies Vanilla  Halva  to the ice-cream mixture. Follow rest of method as above.

(My easy cooking - Nina Timm)