How do you like to spend your weekend? If you ask us, we enjoy exploring our creative selves and experimenting with recipes in the kitchen. For many people, cooking can be extremely therapeutic. Cutting vegetables in proportion, preparing the right kind of masala and mixing all the ingredients well helps in getting instant relief from stress. Don’t believe us? We suggest, try it this weekend and decide for yourself. To begin with, we bring you a recipe that is easy, delicious and perfect for summers. It’s ice cream! Now you must be thinking that making ice cream at home is a tedious and time consuming task. While we recognize that there are many comprehensive recipes on the internet, these are not the only ones. You’ll also find recipes that are quick and easy to replicate. Take, for example, our Lemon Ice Cream Hack. Here, you don’t need to start from scratch, instead, grab a tub of readymade vanilla ice cream and amp up the flavor profile with some lemon and mint. sounds perfect? So, without further ado, let us take you through the recipe.
How to make 3-ingredient lemon ice cream at home using vanilla ice cream:
In this recipe, we used vanilla ice cream, mint leaves, and a whole lemon – both rind and juice. All you have to do is mix all the ingredients together and let it set for at least five hours. After freezing the ice cream, take it out and eat it with pleasure. You can also add some food coloring for a lemon-yellow color. Super easy, isn’t it?
Click here for detailed recipe.
Read also: 5 Delicious Easy Fruit Ice Creams to Try This Summer
Summers would be incomplete without these delicious cold dishes. Photo: Unsplash
Avoid these mistakes while making lemon ice cream:
while the recipe looks super simple, there are some common mistakes that can completely ruin the dish. Some major mistakes include:
1. Pouring Too Much Lemon Juice:
Never go overboard with juicing. while the intention is to make you ice cream Sour, but adding extra juice can make your ice cream too sour and tart.
2. Not peeling or cutting the rind properly:
Lemon zest or rind adds texture to ice cream. But if you scrape the white part while peeling or grating the rind, it will immediately make the dish bitter. Plus, peeling or chopping the rind of a lemon helps you extract the essential oils that add depth of flavor to the dish.
Read also: 5 Tips To Make Thick And Delicious Ice Cream At Home
Make sure you have squeezed the lemon juice properly from the fruit. photo credit: iStock
3. Over-mixing:
You have to know when to stop. Mixing is an important step when making ice cream, over-churning can give you the exact opposite result. This can make the ice cream grainy. This means that it is important to stop churning as soon as you get desired consistency,
4. Does not freeze well:
We understand it’s hard to resist a bowl of ice cream, especially when you know it’s right there in the freezer. but we say, keep your patience and let it set well because if you do not freeze it for a long time, its consistency can be too runny.
Now that you’ve got all the information, we suggest wasting no time and making yourself a bowl of lemon ice cream and enjoy! Let us know how it turned out.
Happy weekend everyone!