Homemade Strawberry ice cream with basil, just means summer! It’s the end of June and here in the UK that means Wimbledon and tennis (yeah Go Andy Go!!!) and of course strawberries and cream. Wimbledon and strawberries are just synonymous with each other rather like bat and ball, though in this case that should be racquet and ball.
Homemade Strawberry Ice cream With basil
I adore those luscious British strawberries that pack the shops at this time of year, they are oh so much better than the tasteless watery rubbish we are fobbed off with the rest of the year and so worth waiting for.
I have decided to morph my strawberries and cream into this wonderful strawberry icecream with basil, the perfect treat for a summers day wherever you are.
Homemade ice-cream
I like my ice cream to be full of flavour and to this end, I tend to chuck in all sorts of extra ingredients, sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t.
I have made a few ice cream cock-ups in my time (Idgy will never let me forget the dreadful banana and peanut that went horribly wrong and we nearly broke our teeth on it) but no matter how mad my mixes are we always give it a go. However regardless of my recipe disasters, homemade ice cream is always the best and this strawberry and basil ice cream is a real treat!
Full of flavour
This homemade strawberry and basil ice cream is one of our favourites. Combining basil with strawberries is a great mix and the addition of some freshly ground black pepper just makes those berries sing!
The other special ingredient in this strawberry ice-cream is the addition of a spoonful of Grande Marnier liqueur.
The rich orange flavour just lifts everything to a new level of dessert decadence that leaves mere strawberries and cream well and truly in the shade.
What are the ingredients for this strawberry and basil ice cream
The base for my strawberry ice cream is made up of the usual double cream and that old Scottish favourite found in so many of our sweets and desserts – condensed milk. Oh, the sugar I hear you cry, oh the calories you sob.
Get over it, this is luxury ice cream and should be eaten as a treat, so don’t get your knickers in a twist about its sweetness and just enjoy this delightful dessert in the summer sunshine and worry about the health police afterwords.
By the way, there is booze in here too, so you’ll have to report that to the health police as well.
Go on, let’s make this ice cream, you know you want to…….
Do you need an ice cream maker?
I use an ice cream maker as I do make rather a lot of homemade ice cream throughout the summer months. You can get these really cheaply that you just pop the bowl in the freezer the day before you want to use it.
However, you can make this strawberry ice cream without an ice cream maker. Just whip the ingredients well and then freeze for 2 hours, bring out of the freezer and beat it again and then back into the freezer till solid.
Remove any ice cream from the freezer 15 minutes before serving.
Looking for more luscious ice-cream recipes then check out my Delightful Desserts collection.
Looking for some more fabulous strawberry recipes? Then check these out;
Strawberry and mint shrub (like Pimms)
Italian Inspired Strawberry Jam
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Strawberry And Basil Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 225 g strawberries
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 405 g condensed milk 1 can of condensed milk
- 6 basil leaves bruised by not chopped
- 1 pinch black pepper
- 1 tsp Grande Marnier or other orange liqueur, optional
- 250 ml double cream heavy cream
Instructions
- Rinse and hull the strawberries and chop into small pieces
- Add the lemon juice and condensed milk and whazz in food processor till you get a creamy puree
- Add the black pepper, Grande Marnier and basil leaves and set aside in the fridge for at least 4 hours (preferably overnight) to allow the flavours to develop.
- Remove from fridge and discard the basil leaves.
- Whip the cream to sorft peaks and stir this into the mixture.
- Ladle into an ice cream maker and process.
- Pop the ice cream into the freezer to firm up before serving.
I love a good strawberry and basil ice cream! If you’re ever looking for another strawberry dessert to accompany it, California Strawberries has a lot to go with. I am thinking some sort of cake…
Hi Alexa
Glad you like my recipe and web site
K