We often buy mangos by the box over the summer, children love mangos and it's a lot cheaper to shop that way and share the fruits around.
However, there always a couple of mangos left, that we just felt we would like to move on to other fruits.
So I made this mango ice cream, to use up the last three ripe mango we got from the previous box.
Mango Ice cream
3 ripe Kensington mangos, fresh only, mashed.
100g sugar
250ml thick cream
150ml milk – full cream
5 egg yolks
1.5 tsp gelatine
Whisk eggs till light and fluffy.
Bring the milk, sugar and cream to boil and take it off heat, add gelatine and stir well.
Let it cool a while, and then add to the egg mixture, mix well.
Let liquid pass through sift, and add to the mango mixture.
Mix well and let it cool down in fridge.
Use ice cream maker as directed, or freeze in the freezer, but you have to bring out and stir occasionally if not using ice cream maker.
Adjust the amount of sugar as the sweet level of the mango. It's very refreshing as you can still taste the original mango flavour.
I've been thinking about making ice creams for a quite while, and even got a small ice cream maker. But never did much. I have been reading some lovely ice cream blogs from Cherry Teacakes and decided, it's time for me to have a go as well...
I've got some strawberries in the fridge, so I thought, why not.
It's a pretty lay back version of making some ice cream, the end result is good. I guess I will make more ice cream and sorbet this summer.
Strawberry Cinnamon Ice Cream
1 punnet – 250g strawberries
1 cup sugar
300ml thick cream
100ml milk – full cream
2 eggs
1.5 tsp gelatine
1 cup water
1 tbp ground cinnamon
Whisk eggs till light and fluffy.
Simmer the strawberries, sugar and water in a pot to make coulisse.
Sift coulisse, push the strawberries through sift.
Add gelatine to coulisse once cooled a bit.
Add cream and milk to eggs and whisk well to mix.
Add cinnamon and the coulisse.
Mix well and put the mixture in a freezer friendly container, in the freezer for an hour, and then bring it out and put it in the ice cream maker to finish the process (my ice cream maker is not big, so needs a bit of help, some other ice cream makers, you don't need the freezer.)
