Cardamom Kulfi with Pistachio

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 09:15:00 +0000

Kulfi is the ice cream that refuses to be rushed, and that patience is exactly why it tastes the way it does. Where Western ice cream is churned soft and full of air, kulfi is dense, close-textured and almost fudge-like, set solid in little conical moulds and eaten in cool, slow bites on a hot afternoon. The flavour I come back to again and again is cardamom and pistachio: floral, green, faintly resinous, over a milk base cooked down until it turns the colour of weak caramel. My one small liberty with tradition is toasting the milk powder first, which deepens that cooked-milk sweetness without adding an hour to the stove.

Halva Ice Cream with a Tahini Swirl

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:15:00 +0000

Halva is one of those sweets that divides a room in the best way. To some it is a chalky, too-sweet slab from the corner of a deli counter; to others it is the taste of a grandparent’s kitchen, dense and shatter-soft and impossibly moreish. I fall firmly in the second camp, and this ice cream is my argument for the defence. It takes everything I love about sesame halva, its toasted-tahini depth and faint bitterness, and folds it into a cold, creamy base that mellows the sweetness and lets the sesame sing. The swirl of salted tahini caramel running through it is the small twist that turns a nice ice cream into one people ask for by name.

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Cardamom Kulfi with Pistachio

Halva Ice Cream with a Tahini Swirl