1001 Nights Chewy Saffron Ice Cream

Name: 1001 Nights Chewy Saffron Ice Cream
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Servings: 4
Cuisine: Iranian
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon ground saffron threads, dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water; ¼ teaspoon salt; 4 tablespoons salab mixture*; 4 cups milk; ½ teaspoon mastic* ground with 1 teaspoon sugar; ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom (optional); 2 tablespoons cooking rose water; ½ teaspoon ground saffron threads, dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water; 1 cup whipping cream; You can make round ice cream sandwiches, similar to those made in Iran and Turkey, using torte wafers available at Middle Eastern grocery stores. They come in 8 ½-by-11-inch sheets. Use a cookie cutter to make 4-inch disks. Or you can buy both the ice cream and or the wafters, in various sizes, ready-made from Mashti Malone’s Ice Cream in Los Angeles (www.mashti.com).; ½ teaspoon mastic* ground with 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 cup sugar; ¼ cup shelled, unsalted pistachios (blanched); 8 large organic rose petals, crystallized; Eight 3-inch-round ice cream wafers; You can make round ice cream sandwiches, similar to those made in Iran and Turkey, using torte wafers available at Middle Eastern grocery stores. They come in 8 ½-by-11-inch sheets. Use a cookie cutter to make 4-inch disks. Or you can buy both the ice cream and or the wafters, in various sizes, ready-made from Mashti Malone’s Ice Cream in Los Angeles (www.mashti.com).; You can make round ice cream sandwiches, similar to those made in Iran and Turkey, using torte wafers available at Middle Eastern grocery stores. They come in 8 ½-by-11-inch sheets. Use a cookie cutter to make 4-inch disks. Or you can buy both the ice cream and or the wafters, in various sizes, ready-made from Mashti Malone’s Ice Cream in Los Angeles (www.mashti.com).; You can make round ice cream sandwiches, similar to those made in Iran and Turkey, using torte wafers available at Middle Eastern grocery stores. They come in 8 ½-by-11-inch sheets. Use a cookie cutter to make 4-inch disks. Or you can buy both the ice cream and or the wafters, in various sizes, ready-made from Mashti Malone’s Ice Cream in Los Angeles (www.mashti.com).

Preparation info

Servings:
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Silk Road Cooking

By Najmieh Batmanglij

Published 2000

About

In my childhood in Iran, our favorite summer treat was a creamy, elastic, sweet ice cream flavored with rose water and saffron, and garnished with pistachios. After a siesta on a long hot summer afternoon, my three sisters and I were happiest when we could soak all our senses in an ice cream sandwich costing ten cents. We held in both hands a scoop of ice cream between two round crispy wafers. Eating it was an art we perfected with practice. We would begin by turning it around clockwise, ge

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Asia
Iran
Dessert
Summer
Southeast Asia
ice cream
Vegetarian

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