If you don’t have an ice cream machine, go out and get one! These little miraculous machines can make small quantities of delicious creamy ice cream and you can take a basic vanilla ice cream and turn into pretty much anything. With a slew of Blackcurrants in my backyard, I decided to enhance this ice cream with sweet & tart Blackcurrant syrup and beautiful raw Pistachios.
Pistachio Blackcurrant Ice cream
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Sugar
- 1.5 cups Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla bean paste or essence
- Pinch of Salt
- 4 cups heavy cream
- 1/2 cup Sugar in 1 cup Water
- 1/2 cup Blackcurrant syrup
- 1/2 cup shelled and sliced raw Pistachios
- 1/2 cup Blackcurrants
Instructions
- Prepare the ice cream base by whisking together the sugar, milk, vanilla essence & pinch of salt till the sugar is dissolved
- Whisk in the heavy cream and chill
- Boil the sugar and water together to make a light syrup and poach the blackcurrants for a few minutes, then drain and cool
- Once chilled, our into the ice cream machine for about 10 mins till it resembles soft serve
- Pour back into a bowl and fold in the syrup, the pistachios and finally the blackcurrants and fold
- Freeze and serve after a few hours
