tea

I have only recently discovered the culinary art of cooking with tea and want to explore more. Today I did some experimenting and researching making tea ice cream. I have often had Matcha tea ice cream – and love it – but wanted to try out a few other tea flavoured ice creams. After a some experimenting I came up with a delicious simple icecream recipe that allowed the subtle tea flavour to be the main attraction and made a trio of tea ice cream: Chai, Oolong and Earl Grey.

You will need:

• 1 teaspoon of your tea (per 100mls of liquid)
• 1/4 cup of boiling water
• 1/4 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup of cream
• 1 teaspoon of sweetener (sugar, honey or palm sugar)
• 1 teaspoon of powdered gelatin

What to do:

1. Steep your tea in a bowl with the boiling water for 5 minutes.
2. Add the cream, milk, gelatin and sweetener and bring to the boil for a minute in a saucepan on the stovetop.
3. Let the tea leaves sit in the mixture while it cools in the fridge – 1 hour
4. Strain out the tea leaves and let the mixture stand in the fridge for -2-4 hours (or overnight) – it should go a bit gelatinous because of the gelatin you added. This will help the final texture of the ice cream.
5. Place in your mixture in your ice cream maker and mix for 10-20 minutes until it is like a thick milkshake – then chill in the freezer until ready to use.

Notes:

• If you don’t have an ice cream maker then follow David Lebovitz’s directions to make it without. And here are some tips from David for making your homemade ice cream softer.
• Serve with some shortbread cookies for a refreshing different sort of afternoon tea.

Why don’t you try Jasmine tea, Matcha or Sencha green tea or Tai tea… wait there’s more – I have compiled a list of delicious and different tea ice cream recipes for you to try out.

• Green tea ice cream – This one uses Sencha tea
• Matcha green tea ice cream – no eggs in this recipe either
• Green tea ice cream with lots of eggs and cream
• Thai ice cream - using powdered Thai tea
• Another Tai tea ice cream – has anyone had Thai tea before? I think it is a black tea with condensed milk and spices added.
• Chai ice cream
• A custard based Chai ice cream recipe
• This Chai ice cream looks amazing
• Earl Grey ice cream – served with shortbread cookies
• Rich and delicious French Earl Grey ice cream
• Serve your Earl Grey Ice cream with lemon delicious pudding
• Another Earl Grey Ice cream recipe
• Teh tarik – ice cream – this is Malaysian style tea with condensed milk.
• Ginger tea ice cream – based on the Malaysian teh halia tea
• Oolong tea ice cream – no eggs in this one
• Jasmine tea ice cream recipe
• Another Oolong tea icecream

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