Homemade Mango (Mampazham/Aam) Ice Cream

Ice creams are always in demand in our family during this summer season. I prefer to add seasonal fruits in ice cream. During this summer, as plenty of mangoes are available I used mangoes to give rich taste and flavor to ice cream.

Ripe mango is known as Mampazham in Tamil and as Aam in Hindi.

Ingredients

• Full cream milk – 1 litre
• Sugar – 1 cup (adjust as per sweetness of mango)
• Mango puree – 3 cup
• Fresh cream – 200 ml
• Corn flour – 2 table spoon
• Pistachio – few for garnishing (optional)
• Salt – pinch

Method

• Wash and cut mangoes; remove the fleshy part, blend without adding water and keep (3 cups of mango puree are needed).

• Dissolve corn flour in ½ cup of milk; boil the remaining milk in a wide pan till it reduces to ⅓ by volume.

• Add sugar, dissolved corn flour and let it boil for few minutes; remove and cool it.

• After cooling, add this with fresh cream, mango puree, pinch of salt in a blender and pulse it for few minutes.

• Pour the mix in air tight container and keep it in the freezer; after one hour remove, put it in the blender and run it for few minutes; keep again in freezer; repeat this 2 to 3 times to avoid crystal formation in ice cream; it took 8 to 10 hours to set as ice cream in my refrigerator.

• Now Homemade Mango (Mampazham/Aam) Ice Cream is ready.

• Serve ice cream with chopped pistachio.

Tips

• Use mangoes that have nice flavor with more flesh and less fiber.