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NO CHURN BITTER ORANGE ICE CREAM

NO CHURN BITTER ORANGE ICE CREAM

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Serves: 6

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  • Gluten Free
  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian

I first made this with Seville oranges, but since these are available only in January here, it would be unhelpfully restricting to suggest no substitutes out of season (though you could always freeze the oranges, either whole or just their zest and juice). I won't lie to you and say that my suggested substitutes are quite as magnificent as the original - nothing can provide that biting, aromatic intensity that you get from Seville oranges, which have the taste of orange and the ravaging sourness of lemons - but ordinary eating oranges combined with lime juice provide a glorious tangy and fragrant hit of their own.

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Ingredients

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  • 3 Seville oranges (or 1 eating orange and 2 limes)
  • 175 grams icing sugar
  • 584 ml double cream
  • 6 wafers (to serve)
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Method

  1. If using Seville oranges, grate the zest of 2 of them. Squeeze the juice of all 3 and pour into a bowl with the zest and sugar. If you're going for the sweet orange and lime option, grate the zest of the orange and one of the limes, juice them and add to the sugar as before.
  2. Stir to dissolve the sugar and add the double cream.
  3. Whip everything until it holds soft peaks, and then turn into a shallow air-tight container (of approximately 2 litres) with a lid.
  4. Cover and freeze until firm (from 3 to 5 hours). Remove to ripen for 15-20 minutes (or 30-40 in the fridge) before eating.
  5. Serve in a bowl, in cones, with wafers - however you like.

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  • I do this with two lemons and one lime. Just yummy. I have also done it as a strawberry ripple by making an unsweetened strawberry puree (straining out the pips) and stirring it through as a ripple

    Posted by lilymarlene on 6th Nov 2012 at 13.05

  • It was yummy when I put in the freezer yesterday but this morning when I took it out, it was amazing. The orange and lime really came out over night. Delicious!

    Posted by alongi on 13th Apr 2013 at 22.02