Sigh… I think it is time to ring up my school mates and tell them loudly that it’s time for our next meet up!!! 🙂 One thing with nostalgia has to do with ice cream. Whenever we get a chance to sneak out of the school campus (definitely high risk!), we used to gorge up on some ice cream and sneak in back.
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Once I got the hang of making ice cream at home, I have always wanted to try out much more flavors. Will definitely post some of them that I have made slowly and steadily. Despite the glitches in the smoothness of the ice cream, nothing can beat the feeling of eating ice cream made with your own hands. I have recently got myself an ice cream machine, but yet to open the box!!! Hopefully, soon!!!
I got this recipe from a cut out of one of the BBC Good Food issues that I had. It just asked to you “melon”, so I went ahead and used the big cantaloupe melon (Shamaam, as called in Arabic) that I had in my fridge and make this ice cream. Do refer to the notes below for a better tasting one!!!
Melon Icecream
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp custard powder
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 600 ml milk
- 150 ml single cream
- 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
- 200 gm condensed milk
- 750 gm ripe melon deseeded, flesh peeled, and pureed
Instructions
- Blend the custard powder, sugar and 2 tbsp of milk to make a smooth paste.
- Boil the remaining water in a saucepan and heat until almost boiling, then gradually add it over the milk and mix well.
- Bring back to boil for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Cool for 5 minutes, then stir in the cream, condensed milk and vanilla essence.
- Pour this into a plastic container and freeze till half set - around 2 hours.
- Take it out from a freezer and transfer to a larger container. Beat until smooth, using an electric beater.
- Add the melon puree, whisk again and put into a plastic container. Freeze till done.
- To serve, keep it out of the freezer for about 15 minutes, scoop using an icecream scoop and serve!!!
Notes
2. As per the article, it says that this ice cream would stay good for 3 months. Mine lasted less than a week.
Delicious icecream with a new flavor!
Prathima Rao
Prats corner
thank u prathima… 🙂
yummy n tempting ice cream……
Regarding the homemade jams, for me it stays for 2-3 months in refregirator.
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new flavour dear…looks so delicious…
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Very nice icecream. Looks delicious. glad to follow u too.
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Melon Ice-cream Looks tempting.First time here happy to follow you.
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Never had this ice cream before. will try it in summer.
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That's a yum recipe…perfect for the season here….
thank u lubna… 🙂
melon ice cream , looks new & intresting 🙂
This ice-cream looks pretty good!
My kids don't love melon,i think this is a great idea to sneak in kids..yummy!!
thank u julie… 🙂
I am always for homemade ice-creams, they give us a real confidence boost isnt it, and definitely more flavours to do than a shop bought! I love your melon ice cream, Rafeeda, I must try it out, as usually we just stick to the same old watermelon ( a bit boring !)
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There are days that happen to me too… As soon as i wake up i feel like i have travelled back in time. The ice cream looks delicioys too
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very innovative recipe dear..
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that's the main reason why i tried it… 🙂 thank u for coming by…
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I am sure kids must hv bn on top of the world with this ice-cream. So nice to add melon. Looks so tempting.
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Looks perfect and yum ..drooling here
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