Vanilla Ice Cream with Roasted Pistachios
Vanilla ice cream with roasted pistachios is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the spices category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 0.5 l milk
- 0.25 l heavy cream
- 1 Vanilla bean
- 7 egg yolks
- 200 g sugar
- 120 g chopped roasted pistachio kernels
Instructions
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1.
Slice the vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape out the seeds and stir both the seeds and bean into the milk-cream mixture; bring to a boil then remove from heat.
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2.
Beat the egg yolks with the sugar in a bowl until creamy.
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3.
Pour the hot, no longer boiling milk slowly into the egg yolk mixture while whisking; return everything to the pot, remove the vanilla bean, and stir over low flame with a wooden spoon until the custard thickens—never let it boil again.
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4.
Let the vanilla custard cool over ice water, stirring occasionally, then add 100 g pistachio kernels and fold in.
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5.
Pour the chilled custard into an ice cream maker and churn to finish.
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6.
(If no ice cream maker, pour into a shallow metal bowl and freeze, stirring repeatedly during the first hour).
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7.
(Yields about 1 liter of ice cream. Roughly 18 servings (about 5 cl each)).
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8.
Use a scoop to serve 3 balls in an ice cup, garnish with pistachios.
