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Eggless Rose Petal Ice Cream with Gulkand

Eggless_Rose_Petal Ice Cream with Gulkand

Eggless Rose Petal Ice Cream with Gulkand is a flavor that is unique to Rajkot, India, from where I hail. It is a town known for its fondness of food and fun, with the town coming to a complete halt in the mid-afternoon, for all to digest and rest from the huge lunch meal!! Its a royal city in all aspects, for the food, flavor, fun and definitely the cooler breeze every night!. This ice cream has the obvious satisfaction of having an ice cream and also the deliciously unique flavor of rose petals in the ice cream, with the fragrance of rose water and rose petal jam or known as Gulkand in India. And to get the rose pink color, we have the rose syrup, and  all the rose ingredients are from the fragrant roses knowns as desi gulab in India  or well known as  Damascus Rose.

I tried using the petals of  Mister Lincoln Rose, which used to grow in my previous home, and my neighbors still remember the fragrance and taste of  rose petal ice cream from home grown rose! It was that day when I made rose petal ice cream from Mister Lincoln Rose petals, that got me all excited about trying new flavors and in some sense my ice cream journey started 8 years ago from that day.

A lesson learnt from my experience of ice cream making for a medium size group, is to  invest in two/three  ice cream containers, to allow you to make bulk quantity that will truly satisfy everyones’  mental and physical cravings of ice cream! A delectable ice cream flavor that has lovely rose pink color and you will not know what you are missing till you have a bite of it! Summer experience is not complete without experiencing this truly summer feel  flavor of eggless rose petal ice cream with gulkand , and also without the joy of discovering the delicious and hidden combination of  rose  petals and  gulkand (rose petal jelly)!

A garnish that will go well with this is silvered almonds or pistachios. if you please, not that it needs anything extra. Rose for romance, rose for love, rose for fragrance, rose for perfume, and now rose for ice cream too!  Enjoy this super flavor that one guest described as “this a s the most delicious thing I ever had ” and I am in complete sync with this statement as this is the only flavor I prefer, when visiting back home!

Eggless Rose Petal Ice Cream with Gulkand

Recipe makes 1 quart of  eggless rose petal ice cream with gulkand

Cooking Time: 45 min


Churning time : 30 min

Chilling Time: 1-2 days

Ingredients
  • 1 cups whole milk
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1  tsp rose water
  • 2 tbsp  gulkand or rose petal jam
  • 1/3 cup plus 1 1/2 tsp Rose syrup ( Dabur brand)
  • 2/3 cup sugar plus 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
  • 3 tbsp dried rose petals
Method
  • Boil the milk and sugar  for 3-4 minutes, add the petals and continue simmering for 2 minutes.

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  • Add the rose syrup and rose petal jam or gulkand and stir for another minute.

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  • Blend all the ingredients, using a hand blender and chill the mixture for at least an hour.
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  • Mix the heavy cream into the mixture.

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  • Use a well chilled container for making the ice cream, one that is chilled for at least two days.
  • Churn the ice cream for at least 30 minutes

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  • Remove the freshly mixed ice cream into a ice cream container and chill for at least a day or two  to get a great texture.

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  • Garnish with silvered almonds, pistachios or just have plain Rose Petal Ice Cream, and you will have tasted one of the most delicious flavors and original ice cream flavors from Gujarat, India!

Eggless Rose Petal Ice Cream with Gulkand

 

 

Tips

Well chilled container will make a great texture. While freezing the ice cream, if you have an aluminum container, it will shorten your freezing time. Ice cream without any garnish also tastes very yum!

Instinct Factor

If you desire for something, and if it is meant to be, things will show up your way! Felt this, as wanted  to really make this, but was wondering how to get rose leaves, as the western roses, do not have a sweet flavor, An unexpected trip to an Indian Grocery not visited, led me to accidentally discovering the dried rose petals from India. Hence was able to create an authentic flavor as I had in India!  Not only that, found the rose syrup too(Dabur) brand. Gulkand and rose water which were easily available at most Indian stores.

Feel Factor

Having an authentic flavor from my hometown Rajkot, recreated in USA with ingredients from USA, made me feel so much closer to home. One things that was missing was the use of there fresh rose petals, which has even better texture and flavor! And the ice cream in India was white in base, without the use of rose syrup. This flavor is the only flavor that I prefer to have when visiting home! The use of rose syrup gave it a nice rose pink color which was an added bonus to this experience and a color I could fall in love with!. Back in India the base does not have rose syrup, so is primarily white in color with red rose petals showing through well One gets the ultimate combination of rose fragrance,  petals crunch, cooling feeling, as well as the  lovely rose pink color that is just pure joy to see and relish!!  And a guest summed it well- ” this is one of the most delicious flavor she has ever had”!!

 

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