Happy New Year folks with a sweet delectable Eggless Fresh Orange Ice Cream with Zest! Its 2016, or shall we say sweet 16 of the 20th century?!! Recently we travelled to Australia for my daughter’s 16th birthday celebration gift and she loved it over there and so did her mom!!! We fell in love with Melbourne, a place I briefly lived in the past and still today is known as the most livable city in the world! Melbourne has so much to offer, a great work life balance, aa positive approach for tourists, its lovely Central Business District and not to mention that it is the Cultural, Food and Sports Capital of Australia. Shopping, Climate, Food, Fun all get top marks in this lovely city of a lovely continent country called Australia!
For a foodie like me, a place that has excellent vegetarian food is of utmost priority, and I was so happy to get another chance to eat our favorite Focaccia Bread Sandwiches at DeGraves St, and just eating any meal in Melbourne, was far tastier because of the quality of its ingredients. Australia has higher quality control and also I believe that the Australian soil still has its nutrients to make simple cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, avocados taste way sweeter than organic stuff in USA!
There are many many cuisines available in Melbourne, as it is the food capital and one such restaurant was MoMo under Grand Hyatt, a high end restaurant. Its one time prestigious chef Greg Malouf, now relocated I believe to Dubai, once served an orange ice cream, and I found a recipe inspired by this chef’s recipe on the web, which again I had to fine tune , to be rewarded with a highly fresh, delectable Eggless Fresh Orange Ice cream with Zest.
Oranges are one of my favorite fruits, and I had made this ice cream over my birthday, as I like tangy flavour and I wanted to experiment with zest. I love the orange color, the flavour of fresh orange juice in a rich creamy texture of ice cream! I had it again today after two months and the taste is still fresh as ever, and the color of the ice cream has turned even more orange, as the molecules break in!.
The freshness of the new year, new day, new beginning can be related to the fresh feeling one gets when eating this Eggless Fresh Orange Ice cream with Zest. It is one cooling, sweet, refreshing ice cream that is so playfully colorful that a relative of mine, requested this recipe, so here it is, a sweet beginning for all of you with this ice cream recipe as the the opening recipe for a sweet and HAPPY 2016!!
Recipe makes 1 quart
Time to make : 40 min
Chilling time : 36 hours
Ingredients
- 2 cups of heavy whipping cream
- 1 cup of milk
- 1/2 cup of fresh orange juice
- 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp grated zest of fresh oranges
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder(optional)
Cones for serving (optional)
Method
- In a pan boil, milk, sugar, orange juice, vanilla essence and 1 1/2 tbsp zest on a slow flame.
- Remove from flame and cool it for about half an hour or so, till no longer warm.
- Put the heavy cream and the boiled mixture in the ice cream maker.
- Churn for about 30 minutes, till the texture is firm,
- Add the remaining zest and churn for another 3-4 min.
- Remove the ice cream and put it to freeze.
- Freeze for at least 36 hours if you can or minimum 24 hours.
- Serve with toppings of your choice.
Tips
Using full fat milk and heavy cream will ensure a nice richness to the ice cream
Using freshly squeezed orange juice will have the extra edge, as compared to ready made juice.
Always check the sugar level before freezing, as you can always add mix in some more if needed.
Instinct Factor
If the ice cream maker does not firm the ice cream, it could be that the ice cream maker container, needs to be freezed for another couple of days, before making it. I normally keep the empty container always in my refrigerator, so that it is always chilled enough to get a great texture on the ice cream.
As the days pass, the ice cream will get more orange in color!
Feel Factor
A perfect way to give a big shout out to someone’s birthday or to just uplift your mood with this homemade delectable ice cream! Tasty, delicious, refreshing, wanna more, colorful, tangy, and a yummy start to 2016 with this Eggless Fresh Orange Ice cream with Zest! Its zest of the oranges that gives the refreshing tone to this great ice cream!
