Green Tea Ice Cream!!!!
 

This recipe came about when Myjourney made hibiscus sorbet (which was lovely). I've been missing ice cream and am not willing to eat the store bought low carb stuff and haven't been satisfied with the texture of my previous attempts--I'm talking frozen as hard as concrete. So I've been doing some pondering and tweaked an already existing recipe and this is waht I came up with.

It's a winner--I want to post a pic like you do but don't know how. Hopefully Kevinpa is going to get back to me with how to do that.

Recipe as Follows:

200ml milk (2 TBS heavy cream with enough water to make 200ml)
2 egg yolks
1 TBS Fiberfit
200ml heavy cream
8 drops of Sweetzfree (if you have, otherwise just leave it out)
2 TBS maccha gren tea powder
100ml hot water
2 TBS glycerine

Before beginning to cook, dissolve the green tea powder and 100ml hot water and let cool.

1. Lightly whisk egg yolk in a pan.
2. Add milk and mix well.
3. Put the pan on low and heat mixture stirring constantly until mixture is thickened.
4. Soak the bottom of the pan in an ice water bath and cool.
5. Whisk in the sweetener.
6. Add the green tea mixture slowly while whisking.
7. Add the heavy cream while whisking.
8. Add the glycerine in very slowly while constantly whisking.
9. Taste and adjust sweetener per taste.
9. Freeze mixture in ice cream maker per ice cream maker directions.

I used a cuisinart maker where you freeze the bowl. It took about 1/2 hour and the texture was perfect--like soft serve, not concrete--I put it in a container to freeze further in the freezer to season the flavor and firm up a bit more. The taste was incredible.

Finally--no more ice cream concrete!!! Plus--finally found an ice cream base that will work on any flavor--my next recipe--espresso, mocha, chocolate chip chunk!!!! I've died and gone to heaven!!!!!

Sounds wonderful! Do you need to use both the fiberfit and the sweetzfree?

To post a picture the way I think you want to do it you need to first upload the image somewhere. You can upload it either to the photo gallery on this site or to a different website and then you need to use image tags, list the site/directory and then the image file name. Make sure to use the image extention name and not .com

It should look like this when you are done

So how much is 200 ml? It sounds good. I wonder if I can use green tea extract that I have.

200ml is 0.8cup or 13.5 Tbsp take your pick. :-)

or, look on the other side of your glass Pyrex measuring cup--onces on one side, metric on the other. :) :wave:

Duh! :doah: :doah::roll:

Here is my first success at ice cream! I wish the picture was a better presentation, but I don't own an ice cram scoop--hence the chunks! The flavor is sublime!


Also, this is my first time uploading a pic--so sorry if it didn't come out!

Lisa

It looks delicious!

MyJourney--I have hibiscus flowers waiting for me in the cupboard so you know what's next. My future experiment--lavender vanilla--you guys have created a monster!

Bruuuuu hahaaaaahaaaaa!

Awesome, green tea ice cream is the best. I would just have to get ahold of matcha, wow, it looks fantastic, just like the stuff in the Japanese restrurants!

I just wish I would quit missing the Sweetzfree window.......lol

For 3 months now I have got distracted and missed every one......:lol:

I think it was a fluke when I got thru the window of time about 2 months ago. You can bet my jaw dropped when it took my order:lol: If you don't have any, just leave it out. Use any combo of sweeteners that you like. I think that my tastes for the really sweet has diminished. Plus green tea ice cream shouldn't be "sweet" in my opinion. That would mask the green tea "bitterness" that's present.

OMG that window is the worst. I have to set my alarm to get it when I need it. Now I have a ton of it!

Try here:
http://www.tenren.com/canada.html

How is the texture after its been frozen for several hours? Does it get really hard? If it does, maybe an idea would be to somehow freeze it to individual serving sizes? lol now you have me thinking of fried green tea ice cream!