Quick strawberry and rosewater ice cream
A creamy and smooth ice cream that’s perfect eaten straight after you’ve made it, like a soft-serve
Published originally on my blog on 29 June 2017
Lately, I’ve been eating strawberries and fresh fruit like a crazy person and I can’t get enough of them. Most of the times, they are so incredibly tasty, sweet and aromatic that I can’t even fathom using them in any sort of recipe because it’d feel like a waste. There’s nothing better than eating fresh, seasonal, scrumptious fruit straight up.
After a whole month, however, of eating strawberries, the time has come to use them in the most memorable for me way. In ice cream! Strawberry is among my favorite ice cream flavors together with chocolate and coconut, and I have the recipes to prove it.
This version of no-churn strawberry ice cream is amazing and the quickest you’ll ever make. It is made with only a few ingredients and the result is a creamy and smooth ice cream that’s perfect eaten straight after you’ve made it, like a soft-serve.
What you have to do is pretty simple. You take some fresh strawberries, the sweetest and most aromatic you can find, you hull them and cut them in half. You then place them in the freezer until they’re rock hard and then you puree them in a food processor together with some sugar, buttermilk, rosewater and vanilla extract. It is like the well-known way of making ice cream with frozen bananas, but with strawberries.
I love the smooth, velvety and fluffy texture when it has just been processed, even if it is melting all over the place after a few minutes on a hot summer day, but you can certainly put it in the freezer for an hour or two to get a firmer set, and of course you can leave it in the freezer overnight where it will set hard.
It has an intense strawberry flavor so needless to say the quality and ripeness of the fruit is key here. Strawberry and rose is a match made in heaven as they both have a floral aroma and flavor, and this is clearly evident in this ice cream.
The rosewater flavor is subtle, making nevertheless its presence known without being overwhelming in any way, the vanilla adds a pleasant, sweet note, and the acidity of the buttermilk balances everything well. It’s a very refreshing, light and aromatic ice cream that you must definitely try before strawberry season is over.
Quick strawberry and rosewater ice cream
Choose ripe and sweet strawberries for this ice cream as you want the maximum amount of flavor.
In contrast to most no-churn ice creams that contain sweetened condensed milk, cream or coconut milk, this is a very light version and it actually has a much more intense and fresh strawberry flavor as it doesn’t have those heavy ingredients masking it.
By the way, this ice cream is perfect with a chocolate magic-shell poured over the top that hardens when it hits the ice cream, or a hot chocolate sauce that remains soft. Here, I served it with the magic-shell.
