Mint ice cream: homemade recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

In the heat of summer, nothing refreshes as quickly as cool ice cream. It is this dessert, beloved by everyone since childhood, that gives the long-awaited coolness and leaves a pleasant aftertaste. But there is nothing better than eating mint ice cream in the heat: tender and very tasty. You can cook it at home with or without kitchen appliances.

Homemade mint egg yolk ice cream

Not all housewives take up the preparation of ice cream at home, believing in vain that it cannot be made without a special machine. Actually it is not. Ice cream is not only easy to make, but it also tastes just as delicious as ice cream.

The cooking process takes place in the following sequence:

• Separate mint leaves from twigs (you will need a small bunch of mint, consisting of 8-10 branches).
• Send the leaves to a blender, add 150 ml of milk and beat both ingredients until smooth. Leavemix in a blender for half an hour so that the milk is saturated with mint flavor.
• After the specified time, strain the milk through a fine sieve, pour it into a metal ladle (pot), add cream (350 ml), powdered sugar (50 g), a bag of vanilla sugar and mix with a mixer.
• Put the milk mixture on the fire, heating it slowly, but do not let it boil. Stir occasionally.
• Remove the ladle from the heat and leave the milk mixture to cool.
• Prepare egg yolks (4 pcs.). To do this, the eggs must be thoroughly washed with soda, and only then the proteins are separated from the yolks.
• Add 50 g of powdered sugar to the yolks and beat it all with a mixer until creamy (until the mixture turns white).
• Add yolk cream to milk mixture. Stir with a mixer and put on fire to warm. Do not allow to boil so that the yolks do not cook.
• When the mixture is hot and starting to thicken, remove the ladle from the heat, pour the runny mint ice cream into a freezer container and let cool to room temperature.
• Place the container with the cooled ice cream in the freezer, remembering to stir its contents every 30 minutes for four hours.

Mint ice cream is ready.

Cooking mint ice cream in the car

The whole advantage of making ice cream in a special machine or ice cream maker is that it automatically cooks it about three times faster. And you don't need to stir by hand from time to time. One minus - not everyone has an ice cream machine, and it costsnot cheap.

• It is necessary to combine an egg, a glass of milk, 150 g of sugar, a teaspoon of mint oil and a few drops of green food coloring in one bowl.
• Beat all the ingredients with a mixer until smooth.
• Then add four tablespoons of cream (33-35%) and mix everything again with a mixer.
• Pour the resulting mixture into the bowl of the machine and freeze the product in accordance with the instructions (different manufacturers have their own cooking characteristics).

Mint Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe

The combination of mint and chocolate is considered by many gourmets to be ideal, these two components are so well combined. Therefore, mint chocolate ice cream tastes perfect.

To prepare it, you must first heat the cream 20-35% on the stove (the fatter, the tastier), then beat 6 eggs with sugar (100 g). When the cream warms up to a boil (do not boil), carefully pour it into the egg mixture, mix and return to the stove again. Boil a thick cream, resembling custard in consistency. Do not stop stirring and make sure that the eggs in the creamy mass do not boil. At the end of cooking, add two tablespoons of mint syrup and remove the ladle from the heat.

Put the creamy-egg mass into an ice cream maker. After a while, when the mixture begins to freeze, you need to pour chocolate melted in the microwave (100 g) into it. All this can be done without turning off the machine. Wait for the finalfreezing and you can try a delicious mint-chocolate dessert.

Fat-Free Mint Ice Cream: Low Calorie Recipe

If you are on a diet, then this is not a reason to give up your favorite mint dessert. Moreover, you can cook it with a minimum number of calories.

To make ice cream sweet, you can use a sweetener instead of sugar (10-15 tablets will be enough). They need to be crushed into powder and beat in a blend with mint leaves (bunch). Then add 5 yolks and mix well again. Pour in 0.5 liters of skimmed milk.

Meanwhile, beat the whites of 5 eggs in a food processor until foamy. Combine the protein part with the yolk mixture in the processor, mix for a few seconds and pour into a container for freezing. Send to the freezer for 5 hours, while every 20 minutes the mint ice cream, the recipe of which is presented here, must be mixed. This is done so that it does not exfoliate and ice does not form in it. Bon appetit!