Ginger ice cream

three scoops of ginger ice cream at top of container with scoop under one of them.

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5 from 1 vote

This tasty ice cream has a delicious balance of ginger flavor and rich creaminess.

Prep Time10

Cook Time30

cooling time (min)8

Total Time40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American, British

Servings: approx (makes approx 1 quart/940ml)

Calories: 181kcal

Author: Caroline

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Ingredients

For ginger syrup

2 oz fresh ginger in slices (2oz is roughly 6tbsp of slices)
¼ cup fine sugar
¼ cup water

For rest of ice cream

3 egg yolks
⅓ cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream double cream
2 cups milk whole/full fat milk
2 tablespoon finely chopped crystalized ginger or can use pieces of stem ginger in syrup

Instructions

For ginger syrup

Optionally peel the ginger, but either way cut it into thin slices. Put the ginger slices in a small saucepan with the sugar and water.
Stir the mixture gently to ensure all the sugar dissolves as you warm over a medium-low heat and bring it to a simmer. Cover the pan, reduce the heat and let it simmer for around 5 - 10 minutes. Then, remove from heat and leave the ginger to infuse the syrup further as it cools.

For rest of ice cream

After the syrup is relatively cool, whisk together the egg yolks and additional sugar in a small bowl until well combined and slightly glossy.
Place the cream, milk and ginger syrup (leave in the pieces of ginger) in a pot/pan and warm over a medium-low heat until it reaches scalding point - starting to steam a little, and a few bubbles on the edges but not yet simmering.
Carefully add a small amount (around a tablespoon or two) of the warm milk mixture to the yolk mixture and whisk as you add so it combines without cooking the egg. Once mixed, add a little more, mix then repeat.
After you have added the warm milk around three or four times, pour the eggy mixture in to the main pot/pan and place back on the stove over a medium-low heat. Warm the mixture, stirring constantly, so that it thickens up a little. Take care - DO NOT BOIL. It should warm to around 170F/76C. It won't thicken all that much but at least a little.
Strain the mixture through a relatively fine strainer to remove all the ginger and any other solids then let the cream mixture cool. After it is cool enough, place in the fridge to chill at least a few hours but ideally overnight.
Once chilled, follow your ice cream maker's instructions to churn the mixture to a soft serve consistency. Once soft-serve texture, add in the chopped crystalized ginger pieces, churn briefly to mix then transfer to a container and place in freezer for a few hours to firm up before serving.

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Notes

I used caster sugar to help it dissolve quicker but you can use other sugars if that's all you have. Just I'd recommend you don't use anything too coarse so it dissolves before reaching a simmer.

This makes a medium-sweet syrup but you can make it sweeter or more tart/sharp with more or less sugar relative to the water amount.

You can chop the ginger rather than slice, but it may be harder to strain - you don't want any pieces left in the syrup.

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