Praline Ice-Cream

by Tarla Dalal

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Crunchy pralines make a delicious combination with ice - cream. To make economical, use cashewnuts or peanuts instead of almonds.

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Preparation time: 30mins.
Cooking time: 20 mins.
Serves 12
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Ingredients

9 cups milk
36 tsp sugar
6 tsp custard powder
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/4 cups almonds (badam) or cashewnuts (kaju)
1/2 to3/4 cup sugar

Method

Mix the custard powder in 1/2 teacup of cold milk.
Put the rest of the milk to boil with the sugar.
When the milk starts boiling, add the custard powder gradually and cook for 2 minutes.
Cool the mixture.
Add the vanilla essence.
Prepare the ice-cream in an ice-cream churner.
Melt the sugar in a heavy saucepan, and the nuts and cook on a slow flame until rich brown in colour.
Spread the mixture on a tin.
When cold, powder coarsely.
Sprinkle these praline pieces over the ice-cream and serve. If you like, add to the ice-cream mixture before churning.

Tips

For recipes which require use of an ice-cream churner, either a hand or an electric churner can be used. The churning incorporates air and gives a ---
--light texture. Churned ice-creams can be prepared ahead and stored in the refrigerator in a plastic box or in a vessel covered on top with ----
---polyethylene. In this way, the formation of ice crystals is avoided.