Tangy Lime Ice Cream
Creamy and tangy lime ice cream with a heavenly scent and flavor!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Cooking and Freezing
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 and 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 and 3/4 cups whole milk
- 1 cup sugar
- Zest of 4 limes
- A pinch of salt
- 6 egg yolks
- 4 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
Instructions
- Put heavy cream, milk, sugar, zest and salt in a pot until sugar is dissolved and bring it to boil.
- Beat the yolks in a bowl until smooth.
- Pour the hot cream mixture into beaten yolks gradually and stirring constantly. Never pour all of them at one time.
- Pour this mixture back into the pot and cook over medium low heat until it coats the back of the spoon, for 3-5 minutes. Stir it constantly and don’t let it boil.
- Stir in lime juice and cool it until it reaches at room temperature stirring occasionally. Chill in the fridge about 3 hours. The longer the better.
- Pour it into your ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions.
- Keep it in an airtight container and freeze until firm, at least 4 hours.
Notes
Chilling and freezing duration is not included in the total time.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 334
- Sugar: 38.2 g
- Sodium: 435.2 mg
- Fat: 17.7 g
- Carbohydrates: 39.6 g
- Protein: 5.9 g
- Cholesterol: 225.5 mg
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