Best natural Guava ice cream -(no churn recipe)
Homemade guava ice cream is a vegan dreamy treat. Serve it with some red chili powder on top to enjoy guavas in a different form.
Servings: 4
Equipment
- Vitamix blender
- steamer can use a rice cooker or insta pot or heat bottom pot
- potato masher
- Sieve
Ingredients
- 1 kg guava Ripe guavas
- ¾ cup coconut milk depending on the power of the blender, adjust the quantity .refer notes
- ¼ cup sugar or as per taste
- salt and red chilli powder optional,refer notes
Instructions
- Take the whole fruit and let is steam for 30 minutes or until it is completed soft.Now start mashing these cooked guavas, you may use a food processor to pulse them, but it might break the seeds if you pulse it too much
- Take a large bowl and put a sieve on top, start straining the guava pureeOnce done,the guava nectar is now ready to be frozen
- Scoop the guava nectar in an ice tray or silicon tray, cover with plastic wrap and move it into the freezer to set overnight.Once frozem,take them out and cut into smaller pieces
- Add coconut milk and sugar to a blender, mix for few secondsAdd frozen guava pieces,start blending, if you are using Vitamix, then use a tamper to mix it.
- The ice cream is now ready,however if you want to freeze it, then move it to a freezer safe container. Freeze for 3-4 hours.
- Store in an airtight container. Before serving ,leave the frozen dessert for 5 minutes else it will be little hard to scoop.
- Optionally garnish with little salt and red chilli powder, refer notes below
Notes
Do not keep your freezer to coldest setting as it will end up with very hard dessert. Also allow your dessert to rest for 5-10 minutes before trying to scoop.
depending on the power of the blender, adjust the quantity of coconut milk, powerfull blender like vitamix requires less liquid
Salt & Red chilli powder for garnish (this is optional, in India guava is served with mix of salt and red chilli powder on top, the same can be done on the ice cream as well)