Coconut and Lemon Grass Ice Cream

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    Four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Thai Food and Cooking

By Judy Bastyra and Becky Johnson

Published 2011

  • About

The combination of cream and coconut milk makes for a wonderfully rich ice cream. The lemon grass flavouring is very subtle, but quite delicious.

Ingredients

  • 2 lemon grass stalks
  • 475 ml/16 fl oz/2 cups <

Method

  1. Cut the lemon grass stalks in half lengthways. Use a mallet or rolling pin to mash the pieces, breaking up the fibres so that all the flavour is released.
  2. Pour the cream and coconut milk into a pan. Add the lemon grass stalks and heat gently, stirring frequently, until the mixture starts to simmer.
  3. Put the eggs, sugar and vanilla essence in a large bo