Just rambling about all these sounds like I’m always making excuses for not being here often. Promise, there won’t be any discussions on weather, health or the lack of new blog posts appearing here these days.
Puh-roh-misssss….:D
Instead, let’s talk about ice cream! And not just basic ice cream. It’s pandan and if you haven’t tasted this fragrant leaf before, get on it now before it’s too late.
Pandan leaves are widely used in both sweet and savory recipes in the South East Asia region. Fresh is best, but I used frozen and it’s good as well.
Ingredients:
- 2 cans (13oz/400ml) of thick coconut milk
- 6 to 8 large pandan leaves, trimmed
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- pinch of salt
Directions:
- Make sure ice cream bowl is in the freezer 24 hours before churning ice cream.
- Add whole milk and pandan leaves into a blender. Blend for 1 minute. Drape a cheesecloth over a large strainer. Strain pandan milk to remove pandan fibers.
- In a large saucepan, add thick coconut milk and pandan milk. Heat milk on medium-low for a few minutes or until milk is hot not simmering.
- Meantime, whisk sugar and egg yolks in a separate bowl until yolks are slightly pale in color. This should take about 2 minutes.
- Using a measuring cup, gently temper egg yolk mixture with hot milk while whisking, vigorously.
- Add tempered egg mixture into the same milk saucepan and cook it on medium-low heat until the custard begins to coat the back of a wooden spoon. This should take about 10 minutes or so. Stir custard every now and then to avoid burn.
- Once custard is thicken to desired consistency, remove from heat. Strain custard through a fine mesh sieve.
- Allow custard to slightly cool before adding a pinch of salt. Stir and bring custard to room temperature. Place a plastic cling wrap over the custard and refrigerate to chill for a few hours.
- Add chilled custard into chilled ice cream bowl and churn ice cream according to makers instructions.
- Freeze ice cream for a few hours to set.
- Remove ice cream from the freezer for a few minutes before serving. Serve ice cream topped with shredded coconut.
Off to churn more ice cream and that’s what everyone should be doing this summer.
What is your favorite ice cream flavors? I’d love to try cherry choc chip. Already sounding delicious!
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A divine ice cream. I love pandan-flavoured anything!
Cheers,
Rosa
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Thanks Rosa! You are the best 🙂
i have never had anything pandan flavored but it looks heavenly.
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Dixya — its floral and herbaceous. Try it 🙂
I too love pandan! And anything with coconut has got to be DELICIOUS!
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Angie — ditto!!!
I love pandan and coconut. That’s a winning combo. Looks creamy and yum.
Thanks Ash. It’s the best combo of flavors 🙂
Love the colour of the icecream! Looks so good I can almost smell the pandan fragrance from here!
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Fern — thanks and yes, can’t deny the floral fragrance of pandan!
Shh I wont mention your lack of social presence if you send me some of your ice cream.. that makes up for it all
Tania — oh, how I wish it was that easy to mail ice cream 😀
Looks great Ive never tried pandan but would love to Im going to try and hunt some out.
Rebecca — so worth the hunt. try it and let me know how it tastes 🙂
I’ve never tried pandan (which my computer auto corrected to panda! ;)) but your ice cream looks lusciously creamy, too good to resist!
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Lol’ing over panda 😀
This is my type of ice cream flavour
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Raymund 🙂