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Jamaican avocado ice-cream

In Jamaica, avocados (which are sometimes referred to as alligator pears) are commonly eaten with a hard, sweet bread known as bulla, as well as made into a chilled soup. Perhaps a little more unusually, they are also used to make ice-cream. The creamy, delicate flavour works surprisingly well, especially with the addition of lime juice to cut through the richness.

Jamaican avocado ice-cream

Credit: Feast magazine

  • makes

    700 ml

  • prep

    5 minutes

  • difficulty

    Easy

makes

700 ml

serves

preparation

5

minutes

difficulty

Easy

level

Ingredients

  • 2 ripe avocados, flesh scooped
  • 110 g (½ cup) caster sugar
  • 2 limes, juiced
  • 250 ml (1 cup) milk
  • 250 ml (1 cup) thickened cream
Chilling time 2 hours
Churning time 30 minutes
Freezing time 4 hours

Instructions

Place avocado flesh, sugar and lime juice in a food processor and blend until very smooth. Add milk and cream, and blend until mixture is fully combined. 

Transfer mixture to a large bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Transfer mixture to an ice-cream maker (see Note for manual method) and churn for 30 minutes or until frozen. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze for 4 hours or until very firm. Scoop and serve.

Note
• Make ice-cream mixture as instructed until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon. Strain mixture into a large, shallow tray. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze for 1 hour or until frozen at the edges. Remove ice-cream from freezer, transfer to a bowl, then beat until smooth and soft. Return to the tray and freeze for a further hour. Repeate beating and freezing ice-cream until firm.

Photography Chris Chen

As seen in Feast magazine, Dec/Jan 2013, Issue 27. 

Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.


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Published 21 December 2016 12:35pm
By Kirsten Jenkins, Phoebe Wood
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