Dried Apricot Pistachio Ice Cream Recipes

DRIED APRICOT & PISTACHIO ICE CREAM (GF)

Steps:

• Keep aside 1/4 cup of the milk and put the rest and the sugar in a saucepan, and bring it boil. Keep stirring it so that sugar dissolves. Now mix the custard powder (or cornstarch) in the xbc cup of milk and add this to the boiling milk. Keep stirring until the milk thickens a little. Take it off the heat and let it cool to room temperature.
• In a smaller saucepan, put the chopped apricots and the orange juice and bring it to a boil then simmer for about 2 to 3 minutes. Take it off the heat. Remove about 1/3 the apricot pieces and keep it aside. Once the apricots pieces and the orange juice have cooled, purxe9e this in a blender.
• To the purxe9e in the blender, add the milk-custard mixture, cream, and salt. Blend till smooth. Add the reserved apricots and run the blender on slow speed so the apricot pieces blend with the ice-cream mixture but are not purxe9ed. This is so that there will bits of apricot in the ice cream.
• Coarsely chop the pistachio pieces and stir it into the ice cream mixture. Pour it into a container and freeze till hard. Take it out a couple of time in between, and break up the ice cream to prevent crystals from forming.
• If youu2019re using an ice cream maker, refrigerate the mixture and then freeze according to the instructions that come with your machine. During the last minute of churning, add the chopped pistachio nuts, or layer them as you scoop the ice cream into the container where you will keep it.

APRICOT-PISTACHIO ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Quarter the apricots, then warm them with the wine in a small saucepan.
• Simmer five minutes, then cover, remove from the heat and let stand for one hour.
• Coarsely chop the pistachios.
• Puree the apricots, wine, sugar, half and half, and lemon juice in a blender.
• Chill thoroughly in the refrigerator -- this will take at least 3 hours -- then freeze in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
• Add the psitachio nuts in the last five minutes of churning.

APRICOT-PISTACHIO ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Combine water and sugar in medium saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
• Beat yolks in a large bowl until thick and forms a ribbon when beaters are lifted.
• Whisk in sugar/water mixture.
• Return mixture to saucepan over low heat, whisking constantly until mixture is thick enough to coat back of spoon. DO NOT BOIL.
• Transfer mixture to bowl which is set over ice water. Cool, stirring occasionally.
• Fold whipped cream into cooled egg mixture using a rubber spatula. Fold in apricot puree and pistachios.
• Refrigerate until chilled (at least 1 hour or per manufacturer's directions).
• Transfer mixture to ice cream maker and process per manufacturer's directions.
• Turn into plastic container and freeze.

DRIED APRICOT-PISTACHIO ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, warm the apricot pieces in the wine. Simmer for 5 minutes, cover, remove from the heat, and let stand for 1 hour. Coarsely chop the pistachio nuts.
• Purée the apricots with the wine in a blender with the sugar, half-and-half, and lemon juice until smooth.
• Chill the mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. During the last few minutes of churning, add the chopped pistachio nuts.
• Perfect Pairing
• You can make Apricot-Pistachio Crêpes (pictured) by warming Crêpes (page 233) and serving them, folded, on plates, topped with scoops of Dried Apricot-Pistachio Ice Cream, a drizzling of acacia honey, and a scattering of chopped pistachios.