Durian ice cream

It is durian season again, my favorite fruit season through out the year!!! Besides enjoying the mouth watering "ang her" etc, this time i decided to try out durian ice cream.

Of course, i did not use branded durian for the first try but local durians with average quality. After 2 times trial, i feel it is better to use average or above average quality durians so that the aroma of the ice cream is stronger and better. Why use cheap or low quality durians which yield ice cream with not strong durian's aroma right? Haha.
Googled durian ice cream recipe online and I decided to grab the one from Year of the durian as reference.

I did some modification on the recipe and the ice cream turn out well and yummy. The sweet food lover of the house, dad said it has the standard as those selling outside. Haha. and this trial did satisfied me :)


Durian Ice Cream Recipe
Yield: 1L tupperware

Ingredients:400g durian flesh
30g of sugar (Do not add sugar if the durian is sweet)

130g of plain yogurt

200g of whipping cream.

Method:

1. Puree/blend durian flesh and sugar until it becomes a smooth paste. 
2. Transfer the durian meat into a cleaned, large bowl and mix in the yogurt. 

3. Whip the cream in a stand mixer until stiff and carefully fold into the durian/yogurt mixture.
4. Churn the mixture in completely freezed (24hrs freezing in the fridge) freezing bowl until it becomes thick and partially frozen.
5.  Freeze the ice cream until firm before serving.

Honey-Lemon Frozen Yogurt

It is my 3rd time making this frozen yogurt before I manage to post about this fantastic recipe. It taste just the same as original flavor where we can get from all froyo outlets.

For this recipe, it is pretty easy and least ingredients needed but honey quality plays a vry important part. The froyo taste weird when i used cheaper honey which i get it from ingredients shop. Recipe for froyo also less fattening compared to ice cream.. basically just yogurt.. honey.. lemon juice.

When i ate this froyo, i actually put some nuts on top/ florentine which make it very similiar to froyo outlets. And it really taste the same. :)

Recipe: Honey Lemon Frozen Yogurt
Yield:
1.2L tupperware containner

Ingredients:
1 cup honey
3 tbsp lemon juice
1.5 tsp lemon peel
Pinch of salt
3 cups plain low fat yogurt
3 egg whites

Method:
1. Double boil honey, lemon juice, lemon peel and salt. Stir them until well blended and set aside to cool.
2. Mix in the yogurt and put in refrigerator until completely chilled.
3. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form and fold into the yogurt mixture.
4. Churn the mixture in completely freezed (24hrs freezing in the fridge) freezing bowl.
5. Freeze the frozen yogurt overnight before serving.

Cookies and cream ice cream

Cookies and cream ice cream is another favourite flavor of mine and since my ice cream making mood haven't off yet, I decided to give it a try. The result is quite successful but just a little bit too sweet with the original recipe, so I decided to reduce the original amount of sugar next time.

It get the recipe from the internet and did some modification ( the original is just too too too sweet). With my previous experience on green tea ice cream making, I ensure that my ice cream maker freezing bowl is freezed for 24 hrs ( I put it on Sunday 11pm and make it next day 11pm.. Hiak hiak..) and the mixture is completely chilled (Prepare the mixture after work and start ice cream making at 11pm before I sleep) this time. The churning just takes about 15 mins to concentrate the mixture and starts freezing within 20 mins, mostly because all ingredients and the bowl are chilled enough. 

Next day after work, 1st thing to do is to check my ice cream..and it is amazing.. Creamy and smooth..but just a little bit too sweet..** room for improvement**..:)

Recipe: Cookies and cream ice cream

Yield: 1.2L Tupperware

Ingredients:

3 cups whipping cream

1.5 cup low fat milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

20 Oreo sandwich cookies

Method:

1. Freeze the ice cream maker freezing bowl for 24 hrs according to manufacturer's instructions.

2. Double boil cream, milk, sugar and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl until sugar dissolved. Cool the mixture aside and chilled in the refrigerator (cover with plastic).

3. Put the cookies into a sandwich plastic bag and crushed into pieces (use roller) and ensure to Leave some large pieces. Store the cookies in the freezer.

4. After freezing bowl completely freezed, churn the mixture for around 20 mins. When the ice cream is nearly freezing, pour in the cookies and allow to mix thoroughly ( still need to stir it after the machine stop).

5. Store in 1.2L Tupperware container and freeze it overnight before serving.

Green tea ice cream

Green tea/ matcha ice cream.. Always my favourite ice cream flavour in any ice cream outlet...

I have seen a u-mate fb's post on homemade ice cream and this make me feel to make my own ice cream... Google on the recipe and I notice that there are recipes which need a machine and without a machine, hence I start my research on ice cream maker and ice cream recipe.

At last, I make up my mind to purchase Kenwood IM280 Ice Cream Maker from Lazada at the price of RM 119 ( Lazada price RM169 with Rhb debit card RM 50 instant discount) instead of RM199 member's price from SENQ. 

Of course, the 1st ice cream recipe to try on is my favourite green tea flavour.

I got the recipe from Nasi Lemak Lover (http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/2012/08/matcha-green-tea-ice-cream.html) and double up the portion so that there are more to enjoy and no whipping cream wasted.

The result is not disappointing, however it makes me very nervous and worry during the churning of the ice cream maker. The mixture took much more longer to get concentrated/solidified ( ~45 minutes) and the mixture churned after 45mins is not as concentrated as shown in YouTube and other bloggers (suspected the mixture is not chilled enough) before putting into the maker for churning.

Overall, the ice cream texture is awesome although it is not as smooth and creamy compared to those from Baskin Robin and Haegen Daaz.

I would definitely try for 2nd times or N times on this recipe. :)

Recipe: Green tea/ Matcha Ice cream

Yield: 1L Tupperware container

Ingredients:

2 cup whipping cream

2 cup fresh/ low fat milk

6 tbsp natural green tea powder ( I got it from purple cane)

1 cup sugar

2 pinch of salt

Method:

1. Freeze ice cream bowl for 24 hrs.

2. Mix all ingredients in a saucepan/ pot, cook till sugar dissolved. After cooled down, refrigerate the mixture until completely chilled. (This mixture need to be chilled for best result)

3. Churn in ice cream maker until solidified/ concentrated (~30 mins) according to manufacturer's instructions.

4. Transfer into a container and freeze overnight before serving.