Ice cream "Fruit Ice" is loved by both children and adults. This product is not only refreshing and tasty, but also healthy. After all, such ice cream is prepared from juice and pulp of ripe fruit. All the charm of this dessert is felt in the summer, when it becomes hot and stuffy on the street.
Shop "Fruit Ice" - benefit or harm?
Unfortunately, manufacturers are increasingly moving away from technologies using natural raw materials. Therefore, no matter how strange it may sound, ice cream bought in a store is often a mixture of synthesized syrup with the taste of fruits, artificial colors and chemical flavors. So it turns out that the acquired frozen juice brings people not only harm, but also unnecessary calories.
So why pay for a useless product? Many housewives successfully come out of this situation. Because, knowing how to make homemade ice cream (fruit ice), you can please the household at least every day. Moreover, such a delicacy is prepared quickly enough, and absolutely any juices, fruits and berries are suitable as starting ingredients.
DIY homemade ice cream: some good tips
A lot has been said about the benefits of fruits and their value for our body. This means that a cooked dish of frozen pulp of medicinal fruits will not only help to freshen up in hot weather, but will also present all the useful micro- and macronutrients contained in them. The low calorie content of such ice cream will be another positive point. It takes very little time to prepare such a healthy and refreshing treat. Just a few minutes - and the delicious dessert is almost ready. Now it remains only to freeze it.
Today, there are many ways to make this dessert. They may vary in composition and complexity. However, preparing home-made delicacies even according to the most complicated recipe will not cause much trouble if you adhere to several recommendations and do not deviate from the proposed recipes. Although some improvisation, if it comes to choosing fruits or their mixtures, is quite acceptable, because there are many options for making homemade ice cream, but there is no standard recipe for such a dessert.
There are several rules to follow:
- Before cooking, the fruit must be thoroughly washed and dried.
- All utensils used must be clean.
- Some fruits and berries, for example: cherries, sea buckthorn, lemons, oranges, apples, etc. - may have a sour taste. Before you put the fruit mass in the form for freezing, you must try it. If cooked mashed potatoes or juice turn out to be acidic, you should definitely add a little sugar or sweet syrup.
- To improve the taste characteristics of the fruit, as well as speed up the freezing time, sugar syrup is added to the juice or fruit mass, which is prepared from a ratio of 100 grams of sugar per 500 grams of fruit raw materials.
- To make syrup, you need to put a measured amount of sugar in a small saucepan, add a little water and bring to a boil. Stirring the sweet solution, it is brought to a boil and boiled until sugar is completely dissolved. The cooled syrup is mixed with natural juice, poured into molds and put in the freezer for 20-30 minutes. After the mixture has hardened a little, you can install wooden sticks in it and leave until completely frozen.
Delicious Juice Dessert
Using natural juices is one of the easiest homemade ice cream recipes. Fruit ice prepared using this technique retains all the beneficial and nutritious properties of the fruit. To prepare a delicious, refreshing and low-calorie product, you will need any natural juice and suitable forms. If desired, you can make a colorful rainbow, filling and freezing containers with different natural drinks from ripe berries and fruits. The only drawback is the increase in cooking time, because Before pouring another juice, you must wait until the previous liquid has frozen.
If you attract children to the “production" process and put together quite a bit of imagination, you can get ice cream of the most unusual forms: in the form of multi-colored animals, stars or various compositions.
Frozen Berry Mix
For the preparation of this dessert, any garden berries are suitable: raspberries, strawberries, currants, cherries and other fruits. Before cooking, you need to knead them a little, so that the juice appears. If the berries seem sour, you can add a little sugar syrup prepared in advance. The resulting mass is filled into molds and placed in a freezer. Freezing time can be from 4 to 6 hours.
Very often sugar-lemon syrup is added to fruit puree . To do this, rub some berries through a sieve, twist through a meat grinder or grind in a blender, add a few drops of lemon juice, water and sugar. The fruit and sugar gruel is brought to a boil, boiled until sugar is completely dissolved and cooled. The resulting syrup is added to the berry puree and mixed thoroughly. Then they are laid out in forms and frozen, not forgetting to stick wooden sticks 20 minutes after the start of freezing. With this ice cream recipe, fruit ice is very tasty and aromatic. Dessert freezes quickly, which is especially important when there are impatient children in the house.
Yogurt Popsicles
To prepare a delicious dessert, you need to stock up on a jar of natural yogurt, preferably without additives, and any kind of fruit juice - it can be apple, peach, orange, grape, etc. First of all, yogurt must be thoroughly beaten. Then juice is poured into the airy yogurt mass. The resulting mixture is laid out in molds and left in the freezer for about an hour, so that the mass hardens. After that, chilled juice is poured over the hardened yogurt mass and again placed in the freezer until the ice cream hardens completely. At home, you can decorate fruit ice with grated chocolate or coconut.
Fruit puree treat
As the main ingredients for a frozen dessert, you can use any fresh fruit. Washed and peeled apples, peaches, apricots, pears or plums are crushed to a homogeneous mass using a blender. If necessary, a little sugar syrup or a few drops of lemon juice can be added to the resulting fruit pulp. The mixture is laid out in molds and placed in a freezer until completely solidified. By the way, the homemade ice cream obtained - mashed fruit ice, is prepared and frozen no longer and no harder than other cooling desserts from various ripe fruits. Its amazing taste will delight all households.
Slices of fruit added to ice cream
Fruit ice with fruit slices is an unusual and delicious dish. To prepare it, you will need sugar syrup, which will speed up the fruit freezing process. To do this, add 4 tablespoons of sugar in 1 cup of boiling water and boil the syrup for 5 minutes. Fruits are poured with a hot solution and allowed to cool. Then the mass is laid out in tins and frozen for 2-3 hours.
Forms for making ice cream at home
There are many fruit ice recipes, but what is the purpose of preparing this wonderful dessert? Here special molds bought in the store, various vases and bowls come to the rescue. They can be found in almost all outlets that specialize in the sale of household goods or utensils. However, when going to these shops, we do not always remember such a trifle as an ice cream mold. Therefore, instead of them, they often use various plastic cups and baths from yoghurts and curds. Instead of special forms, many have adapted to use clean kids for playing in the sandbox. It’s even funny to make colorful desserts in such forms. And for children, such a process is a real holiday!