Everyone loves cold drinks in the hot summer, but eating too many can be very harmful to our bodies, which leaves ice cream lovers in a dilemma: to eat or not to eat? Below, the editor recommends eight cold treats that will help you beat the heat while staying healthy this summer.
NO.1 Dragon Fruit and Sago Pudding
Ingredients:
1 dragon fruit, sago, sugar as needed.
Instructions:
1. Boil water. Add sago to the boiling water and cook for about 10 minutes. Remove and rinse with cold water, then put it back in the pot to cook for a little while. The white dots in the middle will be fully cooked.
2. Cut the dragon fruit in half lengthwise. Scoop out the flesh, dice it, and place it back into the two halves of the dragon fruit skin.
3. Rinse the cooked sago with cold water, then put it into the prepared dragon fruit. If you like it sweet, you can add a little sugar.
NO.2 Mango and Double-Skin Milk Pudding
Ingredients:
250ml milk, 2 egg whites, a little sugar, plastic wrap, half a mango.
Instructions:
1. Heat the milk until warm.
2. Pour the warm milk into a bowl. In another bowl, add the egg whites and sugar, and stir until the sugar dissolves.
3. Let the milk cool to 45°C (a bit higher than body temperature). Poke a hole in the milk skin on the surface, then slowly pour the milk into the bowl with the egg whites, stirring evenly.
4. Pour the egg milk mixture back into the bowl with the milk skin. Cover the surface with plastic wrap and steam for about 20 minutes.
5. After removing, dice the mango and place it on top.
NO.3 Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
Ingredients:
250g cream cheese, 200g yogurt, 60g sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 50g diced strawberries, 100ml fresh cream (or milk), 2 sweet cookies.
1. Mix cream cheese, yogurt, sugar, and vanilla extract together until smooth.
2. Add diced strawberries and fresh cream (or milk), and continue to mix well. Freeze for 4-5 hours, stirring thoroughly every hour.
3. After freezing, add crushed cookies and mix, then continue to freeze for another hour.
NO.4 Banana Ice Cream
Ingredients:
500g bananas, half a lemon, 300g white sugar, 300g cream.
Instructions:
1. Rinse the lemon, then squeeze out the lemon juice and set aside.
2. Dissolve the measured white sugar in about 500g of water by heating. Then, filter it.
3. Wash and peel the prepared bananas, then mash them into a paste. Add the filtered sugar water and mix well. Then, add fresh lemon juice and mix thoroughly.
NO.5 Fruity Yogurt Ice Cream
Ingredients: Aloe vera yogurt, mango ice cream, raisins.
Instructions:
1. Find a suitable small ramekin or bowl, and pour the aloe vera yogurt into it.
2. Slice part of the mango ice cream into small thick pieces and place them on the yogurt.
3. Finally, sprinkle with raisins.
NO.6 Cream Ice Cream
Ingredients:
250ml milk, 3 egg yolks, 100g vegetable cream, 20g sugar.
Instructions:
1. Beat the egg yolks with sugar until the color turns pale.
2. Bring the milk to a boil, pour in the beaten egg yolk mixture and mix well. Bring to a boil again, then let it cool.
3. Add the vegetable cream whipped to 70% and mix well.
4. Wrap in tin foil and freeze in the refrigerator. After 3 hours, take it out, stir the ice crystals, and refreeze. Repeat this process 3-4 times.
NO.7 Green Tea Ice Cream
Ingredients:
300ml milk, 300ml light cream, 3 egg yolks, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of matcha powder, a little hot water, a little ice (optional).
Instructions:
1. Whisk the egg yolks, add sugar and milk.
2. Heat over very low heat, stirring constantly, until the egg yolks begin to set and the liquid feels thick.
4. Immediately turn off the heat and let it cool.
5. Mix the matcha powder with a little hot water to dissolve. You can add some ice cubes to cool it down quickly, but the total should not exceed 150ml.
6. Once cooled, add it to the egg yolk mixture.
7. Finally, add the light cream. After mixing well, pour into a freezer-safe bowl and place in the freezer.
8. Stir every half hour. When it reaches your desired consistency, you can scoop it into small bowls to eat.
NO.8 Green Tea Ice Cream
This green tea ice cream is made with light cream. Since the main ingredient of light cream is milk, it has a particularly rich and fragrant flavor, different from ice cream made with sweet vegetable cream.
Ingredients: 500ml light cream, 400ml condensed milk, 100ml fresh milk, 1 tablespoon of green tea powder.
Instructions:
1. Pour the light cream into a container. Use a whisk to beat the cream (for about 3 minutes).
2. Add condensed milk, fresh milk, and green tea powder. Beat all the ingredients evenly and freeze in the refrigerator. After 1 hour, take it out of the freezer and beat for 2 minutes, then put it back in the freezer for 5-6 hours. After that, garnish with a little fruit, and a beautiful and refreshing green tea ice cream is ready!