Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, cassata ice-cream. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The term cassata stands for little case, and the ice cream typically has a bricklike shape. This ice cream is believed to be inspired by a very popular sweet in Sicily called cassata. Cassata Ice Cream is a succulent dessert recipe that is named after a traditional Italian sweet. It is made with strawberry and vanilla ice cream, mixed fruit jam, mixed nuts, eggs, and all-purpose flour.
Cassata ice-cream is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Cassata ice-cream is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cassata ice-cream using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cassata ice-cream:
- Get 1 litre vanilla ice-cream
- Take 150 g mixed dried fruit (with or without peel)
- Get 50 ml amaretto or rum
- Get 150 g chopped glacé cherries
- Prepare 150 g unsalted pistachio nuts, bashed in pestle and mortar
- Make ready 150 g frozen raspberries
- Take Zest of half a lemon
I have no problem in buying them from our neighbourhood bakery and enjoying. But recreating them at home, didn't happen all in a sudden, it has a story. Easy home made cassata ice cream with Christmas fruits, pistachio nuts and chocolate can be made with home made dairy free ice cream or your favourite store bought ice cream. Coat the inside of a two-quart bowl (stainless steel is the easiest) with the chocolate ice cream.
Steps to make Cassata ice-cream:
- If raspberries are fresh, pop them in the freezer. Remove ice-cream from freezer. Combine dried fruit with amaretto and then spend 10 minutes chopping glacé cherries and bashing the nuts in to good sized pieces (not too fine), and zesting half a lemon
- Now the fruit should have absorbed most of the alcohol, the raspberries will be chilled or frozen and the ice-cream will have softened but not melted. Turn the ice-cream in to a large bowl and mix with a spoon to break it up a little
- Add all the ingredients to the ice-cream and fold in, being careful to not over-work.
- Spoon mix back in to original tub. You will need a second tub to fit it all in. Freeze immediately. Best left overnight. Will keep in freezer for 2 months.
Easy home made cassata ice cream with Christmas fruits, pistachio nuts and chocolate can be made with home made dairy free ice cream or your favourite store bought ice cream. Coat the inside of a two-quart bowl (stainless steel is the easiest) with the chocolate ice cream. Place the bowl in the freezer and allow the chocolate layer to harden. While the chocolate is hardening, soften the vanilla ice cream. When the chocolate layer is frozen, take the bowl from the freezer and coat the inside with the vanilla ice cream.
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