I am not the biggest dessert fan but I do really enjoy home made ice cream! This time I made ice cream with fresh mint and lemon zest and it is a nice and fresh ice cream. A perfect combination with the warm, grilled pineapple.

50 minutes
Easy
0 – 5 euro pp

Ingredients for 4 pers.:

  • 1 pineapple
  • 250 ml full milk
  • 250 ml whip cream
  • 4 eggs
  • 75 gr sugar
  • 1 lemon
  • fresh mint
  • 4 raspberries

How to prepare it:

Making ice cream at home is easy with an ice cream machine but it is not necessary, I’ll explain how you can make ice without the machine as well.

Start by heating up the milk au bain-marie. Make sure the milk doesn’t boil. In the meantime, you can split the eggs and put the yolk in a mixing bowl. Add the sugar and stir well. Add the yolk mixture to the milk and heat it up. Keep stirring until you notice that the yolk starts to bind. Keep stirring and take the mixture of the stove once the yolk is dense enough. Put the mixture in the fridge to cool down.

Whip the whip cream until it is nice and thick but not completely stiff. Mix the whipped cream with the yolk mixture.

Chop the mint and grate the lemon skin of the lemon. Chop the lemon skin as well. Add both the mint as well as the lemon zest to the ice cream mixture and stir well.

Put the mixture in the ice cream machine and let it run for 40 min.

As said, you can also make ice cream without a machine, in that case you can put the mixture in a flat dish for the freezer. Put the mixture in the fridge for approx. 3 hours, stir every 30 minutes.

Now that the ice machine is running, we can prep the pine apple. Remove the skin and the middle of the pine apple. Cut the pieces into thin slices. Put a grilling pan on the stove. Grill the pine apple on both sides till it is nice and warm and has a nice grilling structure.

Put, once the ice cream is ready a small bowl of ice on the plates, add 2 warm pieces of pine apple. Garnish with a piece of raspberry and a leaf of mint.