The Sunday Recipe: Vanilla Coconut Milk Ice Cream

May 9, 2021 at 6:00 am (Recipes)
Tags: coconut, dairy free, ice cream, refined sugar free

Vanilla Coconut Milk Ice Cream

Last summer I made coconut milk ice cream but the recipe called for using raw eggs. Well, my daughter and I both got very sick with what seemed like Salmonella poisoning. I decided to try again but follow the directions for a cooked custard vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients

• 2 cans coconut milk
• 4 egg yolks
• ½ cup maple syrup
• 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. In a medium saucepan, on medium heat, stir the coconut milk gently but continuously until all solids have dissolved and the mixture is steaming, but not boiling.
2. Remove from heat and set aside.
3. Separate the eggs and refrigerate the egg whites for another recipe.
4. Whisk or stir the egg yolks and maple syrup together.
5. Drizzle the warm coconut milk into the egg yolk and maple mixture while stirring vigorously to temper the eggs.
6. Return the mixture to the saucepan and heat over medium heat, stirring continuously, until steaming.
7. Continue to heat for another five minutes, stirring to prevent scorching on the bottom. (If you start to seeing boiling, remove from heat immediately.)
8. (If you have a candy thermometer, you can check to make sure the mixture reaches 160, but if you keep stirring for five minutes after it starts to steam, you’re pretty safe.)
9. Remove from heat and mix in the vanilla and salt.
10. Cool then refrigerate for about 8 hours.
11. Freeze according to ice cream freezer directions or place into a shallow dish and into the freezer for several hours, stirring once an hour until it firms up.
12. I found two containers from take out food worked pretty well for this and were easy to scoop out of when the ice cream was frozen.