Time for some dessert today!! Roger Federer meets Novak Djokovic at the US Open!!May the best win and we celebrate with the Eggless Red Plum Ice Cream with a hint of cinnamon. Other reason for it being an important day, as when you read the doctrine of Kalpasutra during Paryushan, you come to the chapter of Bhagwan Mahavir’s birth on the fifth day of Paryushan, and major celebration happens amongst Shwetamber Jains.
I thought of sharing the dessert that I recently made in India. The idea was to see if I can recreate the ice cream flavour as in USA. with Indian ingredients, and without the use of an ice cream maker. At the time of my visit, the red plums were in season and were extremely juicy and sweet, so wanted to explore a whole new flavour of plum ice cream, and at the same time my mother was experimenting making a plum jam!!
I was happy with the flavour of plum ice cream, to which I added some cinnamon powder, as just wanted a hint of haunting sweetness to the ice cream. The Indian ingredients of Amul cream worked well, and the texture of the ice cream was not as fluffy as when using an ice cream maker, but still very good , as the taste of fresh homemade ice creams is parallel to some of the best ice creams commercially available in India.
The tanginess of plum and the color of the red/pink amongst the white base was pleasing, so a hint of tanginess, warmth of the red and spice of cinnamon added the needed depth to this ice cream. If you are not fond of cinnamon, then one can skip this and add a bit more of sugar. To top the flavour I added my mother’s extra delicious plum jam to add bit more of color, texture and needed sweetness. You need to have a bit of adventurous gene in you to try this combination, so give it a shot and enjoy this Eggless Red Plum Ice Cream with Cinnamon!
Recipe makes 1 quart of ice cream
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream with full fat ( Amul Full Fat Cream for India)
- 1 cup full fat milk
- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 and 1/4 cup chopped red plum
Method
- Blend the chopped plums into a puree.
- Mix the plum puree, essence, sugar, heavy cream, milk and cinnamon powder.
- Using a double blender or whisk, continue mixing on high speed for 30 minutes or so.
- Add 1/4 cup of chopped plum in very small pieces to the ice cream mix and set to freeze for at least 8-10 hours.
- Server chilled and top it with a plum jam, raspberry jam or any toppings of your choice.
Tips
Low fat milk will not be easy to work with here.
Taste the mixture before setting to freeze and sugar level has to be adjusted depending on the sourness of plums
Instinct Factor
Its instinct that led to this flavour, so let that be your guiding light!
Once can also variate this with black plum, Italian Jacket Red plums to their liking.
Feel Factor
Experiment and create new flavours for the fun of it! Eggless Red Plum Ice cream with Cinnamon is a flavour I liked and was happy to successfully make ice cream at home in India
