Ube ice cream
Ube ice cream thinned deliberately, because halaya freezes far harder than a plain base.
Vegetarian, but not vegan — contains dairy (condensed milk), dairy (double cream), dairy (whole milk).
Ingredients
- 350 g ube halaya
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 200 ml whole milk
- 250 g condensed milk
- 250 ml double cream
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
Method
- THINNED ON PURPOSE, which is the opposite of what an ice cream recipe usually says. Ube halaya is already a stiff starchy paste, and starch sets like concrete in a freezer. Folded into a normal base it gives something you cannot get a spoon into. The extra 200 ml of plain milk is there solely to counter that, and the mixture will look too thin before it is frozen.
- No cornflour either, for the same reason -- the sorbetes on this site needs it to hold together, and here the halaya has already brought more starch than the ice cream wants.
- Beat the halaya smooth with the whole milk FIRST, on its own, until there is no lump at all. Lumps of halaya freeze into hard purple pellets and nothing later disperses them.
- Push it through a sieve if there is any doubt. It takes two minutes and it is the difference between smooth and gritty.
- Warm the coconut milk with the condensed milk and salt to just below a simmer -- not to cook anything, only to let the halaya dissolve into it properly.
- Halaya mixture in, whisked until the colour is completely even.
- Cool to room temperature, then chill at least 4 hours. Churning anything warm gives big crystals.
- Fold the cream in cold, then churn 25 minutes. Or still-freeze in a shallow tray, beaten hard with a fork every 40 minutes for 4 hours -- and with this one do not skip a beating, because it sets harder than the others.
- Into a tub with paper pressed against the surface, 4 hours to firm.
- Take it out of the freezer 10 minutes before serving. Even thinned, it is firmer than the coconut ice creams here.
Our own recipe. This one was written for this site rather than taken from anywhere, so there is no source to point you at. The quantities and the order of the steps are choices, not the only way to do it.
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