Blue Pea Lemon Ice cream
Ingredients
Lemon flavour
- 1 tbsp Lemon zest
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 2 tbsp Water
Blue pea
- 15 count Blue Pea flowers
- 1 1/2 cups Milk
For the custard
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 cup Fresh cream
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Corn flour
For whipping
- 1 cup Dairy based whipping cream
Directions
Take a heavy bottom saucepan. Heat water, sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest for 4-5 minutes on low flame. Turn off the heat. Let it cool well. Cover it with cling film and refrigerate.
Boil milk and Blue Pea flowers on medium flame . Keep stirring. Reduce the milk to 1 cup. Turn off the heat. Let it cool well. Allow it to rest for 3-4 hrs.
Now pass the milk through the strainer.
Now stir in fresh cream and sugar.
Heat the mixture on low flame.Let it boil for 5-6 minutes on low flame.
Mix corn flour in 2 tbsp milk/ water. Add this to the custard. Let the mixture thicken.
Turn off the heat. Place it into a bowl of ice cold water.
Let it cool well . Pass the custard through a strainer.
Cover it with cling film and refrigerate for 1 hr.
Meanwhile, whip the whipping cream until still.
Gently fold in the lemon flavour.
Now mix the custard and the whipping cream. Whip it on medium speed for 2-3 minutes.
Transfer it to the desired container.
Cover it tightly with parchment sheet. Cling wrap the container tightly. Refrigerate it for 8 hrs or freeze it over night.