How To Make Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Whip up the perfect summer treat that’s made with fresh mint, chocolate, and whole milk for a decadent and cooling mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½cupswhole milk
- 1½cupsheavy cream
- ½cupfresh mint leaves,packed
- ⅔cupgranulated sugar
- 1tbsplight corn syrup
- 4large egg yolks
- ¾tspmint extract,or peppermint extract, to taste
- 4dropsgreen food coloring,optional
- 2dropsblue food coloring,optional
- 4ozsemi-sweet chocolate,chopped, or bittersweet chocolate
Instructions
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In a medium saucepan combine milk, 1 cup cream, and fresh mint leaves. Heat over medium heat and bring just to a gentle bubble for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow the mixture to steep for 15 minutes.
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Meanwhile in a bowl, whisk together the remaining heavy cream with granulated sugar, corn syrup, and egg yolks for about 1 to 2 minutes until slightly pale and fluffy.
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While whisking egg yolk mixture, slowly add about ½ cup warm milk mixture to egg yolk mixture without straining the leaves. Add egg yolk mixture to milk mixture in the saucepan and return to medium heat.
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Cook mixture, stirring constantly for about 5 to 8 minutes until thickened. The mixture should coat the back of a wooden spoon but don’t let it boil. Remove from heat and pour the mixture through a fine mesh sieve into a heat proof bowl.
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Using a rubber spatula, rub mint leaves back and forth in over sieve to strain oils and natural flavors from leaves into a bowl, also scrap the bottom of the sieve once done and add that to the bowl, discard leaves.
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Mix in green and blue food coloring, if desired, and mint extract. Cover with plastic wrap pressing directly against the surface of the mixture to prevent skin from forming.
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Transfer to the refrigerator and allow to thoroughly chill through for about 4 to 5 hours.
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Once fully chilled, process mixture in an ice cream maker according to manufactures directions, adding in chopped chocolate during the last few minutes of processing.
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Transfer mixture to an airtight container and freeze until nearly firm.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 352.14kcal
- Fat: 24.55g
- Saturated Fat: 14.47g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.55g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.22g
- Carbohydrates: 32.07g
- Fiber: 1.24g
- Sugar: 30.07g
- Protein: 4.49g
- Cholesterol: 157.94mg
- Sodium: 45.91mg
- Calcium: 108.43mg
- Potassium: 182.14mg
- Iron: 1.41mg
- Vitamin A: 248.77µg
- Vitamin C: 1.05mg
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