Green Tea Ice Cream With Peanut Sprinkle Recipes

GREEN TEA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Bring cream, milk, and salt to a boil in a 3- to 4-quart heavy saucepan and remove from heat.
• Whisk together eggs, sugar, and matcha in a bowl (tea will not be completely dissolved), then add 1 cup hot cream mixture in a slow stream, whisking vigorously. Whisk custard into remaining cream mixture in saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until thick enough to coat back of spoon and registers 170°F on an instant-read thermometer (do not let boil).
• Immediately pour custard through a fine sieve into a metal bowl, then cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally. Chill, covered, until cold, at least 1 hour.
• Freeze in ice cream maker, then transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden.

GREEN TEA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Warm the milk, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan. Pour the cream into a large bowl and whisk in the green tea powder. Set a mesh strainer on top.
• In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks. Slowly pour the warm mixture into the egg yolks, whisking constantly, then scrape the warmed egg yolks back into the saucepan.
• Stir the mixture constantly over medium heat with a heatproof spatula, scraping the bottom as you stir, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula. Pour the custard through the strainer and stir it into the cream, then whisk it vigorously until the custard is frothy to dissolve the green tea powder. Stir until cool over an ice bath.
• Chill the mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
• Make Green Tea and Red Bean Ice Cream by folding one recipe of drained Candied Red Beans (page 183) into the just-churned ice cream. Or prefreeze scoops of Green Tea Ice Cream and sprinkle them with kinako powder (roasted soybean powder, available in stores selling Japanese groceries) before serving (pictured).

GREEN TEA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Regular Version: Place tea bags and boiling water in a cup.
• Let steep for 5 minutes.
• Gently squeeze tea bags into water and discard.
• Blend tea and sugar.
• Allow liquid to cool.
• Stir in Half& Half and cream.
• Pour mixture into the chilling/mixing bowl of ice cream machine.
• Mix and chill mixture according to the manufacturer's directions for your machine.
• (Mixing/chilling time is usually about 30 minutes).
• Diet Version: Follow steps#2, 3& 4 for regular version (see above).
• Allow liquid to cool.
• Stir in"Equal" and milk.
• Pour mixture into the chilling/mixing bowl of ice cream machine.
• Mix and chill the mixture according to the manufacturer's directions for your machine.

GREEN TEA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Spoon 1/2 cup of the ice cream into each of 4 cedarwood boxes and serve.