Wild Orchid Ice Cream in Filo Cups

Name: Wild Orchid Ice Cream in Filo Cups
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Anatolian
Ingredients: 40 g/1½ oz/3 tbsp butter; 1 tsp rosewater; 2 tbsp roughly chopped shelled unsalted pistachios, plus extra for sprinkling; 175 g/6 oz/scant 1 cup caster/superfine sugar; 3 sheets of filo/phyllo pastry; 700 ml/24 fl oz/2¾ cups whole milk; 2 tsp salep flour or cornflour/cornstarch; ¼ tsp mastic powder or about 2 small mastic tears ground using a pestle and mortar, or xanthan gum; dried edible rose petals, to decorate (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
55 min

Appears in

The Jewelled Kitchen

By Bethany Kehdy

Published 2013

About

Salep flour, which gives this ice cream its light and elastic consistency, is milled from the dried tubers of a species of wild orchid found in the Anatolian plateau. These tubers apparently resemble the testicles of a fox, and this gave the flour its name! It’s widely thought to be an aphrodisiac.

Ingredients

700 ml/24 fl oz/2¾ cups whole milk
2 ts

Middle Eastern
Pastry
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Pour 350 ml/12 fl oz/1½ cups of the milk into a small mixing bowl, add the salep flour