Deep fried, hot and crispy on the outside, cold and gooey on the inside. This is a foolproof, vegetarian recipe for making delicious fried ice cream. I guarantee that your ice cream will not ooze or melt during frying.
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Fried ice cream is a dessert that you can find all around the world. This dessert consists of vanilla Ice cream that has been battered and deep-fried until it becomes crispy and golden brown. Top this dessert with some chocolate sauce, and you are in heaven! The origin of this dessert is uncertain, some say fried ice cream is an Asian dessert, while others say this dessert was invented in the US. Either way, this dessert is one of the best and most ingenious finds.
Making fried ice cream is easy, yet there are some tricks to make it to perfection.
Things to note for perfect fried ice cream:
Ice cream: Let's start with the ice cream. You can choose any ice cream flavor to make fried ice cream, but commonly vanilla flavored ice cream is used. Scoop out a large scoop of ice cream and make sure to freeze it for at least one hour. The more the freezing time the better. It will be easy to wrap it with bread slices if the ice cream turns rock solid.
Wrapping the ice cream: When wrapping the ice cream with bread, make sure it is fully covered and there are no cracks or holes in the bread. Otherwise, there is a tendency for the ice cream to ooze out. The number of bread slices used for wrapping depends on the size of the slice. It took a total of two slices for me to wrap the ice cream.
Oil temperature: Please be patient and wait for the oil to be super hot. We can only fry the ice cream for a few seconds and it must be crispy and golden brown in that few seconds.
Fried Ice cream Serves : 2
Ingredients:
Vanilla Ice cream - 2 large scoops
Bread slices - 4 no
Flour- 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Bread crumbs - for coating
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
Method:
Take two large scoops of ice cream and place them on a plate. Leave space between the scoops and freeze the ice cream for 1 hour.
Now take four slices of bread and cut off the sides of the bread. Using a rolling pin, flatten the bread slices as thin as possible but be careful not to break.
Onto a flat surface, place a sheet of cling film/wrap. Now place a slice of flattened bread on the cling film, followed by 1 scoop of frozen ice cream and another slice of flattened bread on top. Now gently wrap the ice cream(with no gaps) using the bread slices and tightly seal this wrap using the cling film,
Repeat the process for the 2nd scoop of ice cream and let the wrapped ice cream scoops freeze for at least 4 hours.
Just before frying the ice cream, mix flour, water, and salt to taste in a mixing bowl to form a thick, lump-free batter.
Remove the cling film from the wrapped ice cream. Now, gently roll the ice cream scoop in batter and then in bread crumbs. Fry the battered ice cream in hot oil until crispy and golden brown,
Remove and drain the excess oil using a kitchen tissue and serve immediately.
You can garnish the fried ice cream with chocolate syrup and whipping cream.
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