Homemade ice cream is easy to make, even with unconventional ingredients like pumpkin and cardamom. It turns out original, exquisite, tasty, beautiful. Pumpkin gives a delicate aftertaste and a pleasant orange color; it itself is not even felt in the dessert.
It is necessary
- For ice cream:
- - 300 g pumpkin;
- - 300 ml of cream, 22% fat;
- - 150 g of sugar;
- - 4 yolks;
- - 1 teaspoon of cardamom;
- - chocolate, nuts, sauces for serving - choose yourself.
- For the chocolate sauce:
- - 30 g butter;
- - 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, sour cream or heavy cream;
- - 2 tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa powder.
Instructions
Step 1
Peel the pumpkin and seeds, cut the flesh into large cubes. Transfer the pumpkin to a saucepan, top with cream, add cardamom and sugar. Bring to a boil, simmer over medium heat for 15-20 minutes. Remove from heat, punch with a blender until puree. Beat the egg yolks with a fork. If the yolks are small, then take not 4, but 5.
Step 2
Pour the yolks into the pumpkin puree in a thin stream, cook for 5 minutes over medium heat. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon. Then pour the mass into a container, refrigerate, during cooling in the freezer, take out the container a couple of times and mix its contents. Pumpkin ice cream should be cooled for 5-6 hours, during this time it should be stirred about 4 times, then large ice crystals will not form in the dessert.
Step 3
Make chocolate sauce for ice cream. Combine butter, cocoa powder, sugar, sour cream, or heavy cream in a saucepan. Melt until smooth over medium heat. Cool the sauce.
Step 4
Serve the finished pumpkin ice cream with chocolate sauce. Top with pumpkin seeds and pecans. Ready pumpkin ice cream with cardamom will pleasantly surprise you with its original taste, so do not be afraid to prepare a treat from such original products!
