Paan Ice-Cream
by Tarla Dalal
A digestive dessert. All the goodness of ice-cream flavoured with paan. Look for all the ingredients in your neighbourhood pan shop.
Paan Ice-Cream recipe - How to make Paan Ice-Cream
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Serves 10.
1 ltr full fat milk
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup cornflour
1 1/2 cups (300 grams) fresh cream
For the paan flavouring
4 calcutta beetel leaves (paan)
1 tbsp lemon juice
6 dried dates (kharek), soaked overnight and finely chopped
1 tbsp lucknowi fennel seeds (saunf), powdered
1/4 tsp cardamom (elaichi) powder
1/4 cup gulkand (sweetened rose petals)
a pinch of menthol
Method
How to proceed
- Main Procedure
- Wash the paan leaves and grind them into a fine paste along with the lemon juice in a blender. Sieve through a strainer and keep the juice aside.
- Deseed and finely chop the kharek.
- Mix together the paan juice, kharek, saunf, cardamom powder and gulkand in a bowl. Keep aside.
How to proceed
- How to proceed
- Dissolve the cornflour in ΒΌ cup of cold milk. Keep aside.
- Place the rest of the milk in a heavy bottomed pan and bring it to a boil.
- Add the sugar and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add the dissolved cornflour and simmer for another 5 minutes while stirring continuously, till it is of a coating consistency.
- Remove from the fire and allow it to cool completely.
- Add the paan flavouring mixture and cream to the milk.
- Mix well and pour into a shallow dish.
- Freeze till slushy. Remove and beat with a whisk until smooth and creamy (or use a blender).
- Add the menthol and mix well.
- Freeze again until firm. Scoop and serve.
- Lucknowi saunf is smaller in size as compared to fennel seeds and more fragrant.
- It is available at most grocery stores and paan vendors.
- The ice-cream mixture has to be chilled before you add the paan mixture as it may curdle because of the lemon juice.
Nutrient values per serving
| Energy | 345 cal |
| Protein | 5.5 g |
| Carbohydrates | 39.7 g |
| Fiber | 0.7 g |
| Fat | 16.1 g |
| Cholesterol | 16 mg |
| Vitamin A | 345.6 mcg |
| Vitamin B1 | 0.1 mg |
| Vitamin B2 | 0.1 mg |
| Vitamin B3 | 0.6 mg |
| Vitamin C | 2.4 mg |
| Folic Acid | 17.5 mcg |
| Calcium | 243 mg |
| Iron | 0.8 mg |
| Magnesium | 24.5 mg |
| Phosphorus | 141.8 mg |
| Sodium | 29.7 mg |
| Potassium | 140.8 mg |
| Zinc | 0.2 mg |
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Paan icecream, wow.. this recipe is just awesome, it just taste as if i am eating chilled sweet paan. The ingredients also is easily available. The best ice cream i have ever made and eaten.... just superb....