Easy melon ice cream
A quick and easy way to make fruity and refreshing ice cream for hot summer days
- Prep:30 mins
Cook:5 mins
Plus freezing - Serves 6
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
- kcal 385
- fat 27g
- saturates 15g
- carbs 36g
- sugars 36g
- fibre 1g
- protein 2g
- salt 0.06g
Ingredients
- 300ml double cream
- 175g caster sugar
- 1 very ripe charentais melon, peeled, deseeded and chopped into small chunks
- juice 1 lemon
- fresh raspberries, to serve
Tip
A quick low-fat dessert for 4MELON WITH ORANGE & PIMM’S Mix 500g mixed melon chunks with the segments and juice of 1 orange, 1 tbsp Pimm’s and a handful chopped fresh mint. Spoon into glasses and chill until ready to serve.
Method
Tip the cream and sugar into a pan. Bring to the boil, stir until the sugar has dissolved, then turn off the heat. Tip the melon into a food processor with the lemon juice, blitz until smooth, then pour the cream onto the melon and blitz again.
Pour the mix into an ice-cream machine and churn until thick and semi-frozen, then transfer to a freezerproof container and freeze. Serve the ice cream scooped into a bowl with fresh raspberries.
