Recipes
Turkish Delight and Rose Petal Ice Cream
DESSERT
BY Geoff Lindsay
Preparation Time
10 minutes
Cooking Time
10 minutes
Ingredients
(Serves 4)
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250ml milk
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35g red rose petals (must be unsprayed), torn
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125g caster sugar
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60g vanilla persian fairy floss
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4 egg yolks 68g
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60g rose petal flavoured turkish delight
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250ml cream (35% butterfat)
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6g rose petals
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50ml rosewater
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60g glace ginger
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200g rose flavoured turkish delight, diced
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Method
Bring milk and half of the sugar to the boil.
Whisk egg yolks and remaining sugar until pale, pour hot milk over yolks whilst whisking.
Return to saucepan and cook until lightly thickened. Strain into a bowl, cool over an ice water bath.
Whisk cream and rose water into mixture and churn.
Fold in turkish delight, rose petals and freeze.
To serve, make a nest with fairy floss, surround with a circle of turkish delight, pomegranate seeds and glace ginger.
Place a scoop of ice cream on the ‘nest’ and top with more fairy floss.