Chocolate Ice Cream with Strawberry Coulis and Orange

Home made chocolate ice cream with fresh strawberry coulis
and powdered orange peel.

This dessert has a delightful array of suprisingly complimentary flavours based around a rich, silky chocolate ice cream sauced with a fruity strawberry coulis sauce and topped by a zesty orange powder.

This would be ideal as a cool summer dessert as it is extremely refreshing.






Ingredients:

Chocolate Ice Cream
100 g Lindt 70% dessert chocolate
600 mL thickened cream
1tablespoon espresso style instant coffee
1tablespoon hot water
2 tablespoons rum
1teaspoon pure vanilla essence
¾ cup raw sugar
1cup Trim milk

Dissolve coffee with hot water and keep aside to cool.
Place chocolate with a small amount of cream and sugar in a bowl over simmering water, stir
with a wooden spoon until the chocolate melts and sugar dissolves. Do not let the bottom of
the bowl touch the water. Add the rest of the ingredients to the chocolate mixture. Chill before
churning.

Orange Powder
2 medium size oranges (use only the zest – remove all pith, and Julienne)
1teaspoon sugar

Preheat fan-forced oven to 130ºC. Place Julienned zest in a non-stick baking sheet and
sprinkle with sugar. Place in the oven, turn the heat down to 100ºC and cook for 8 minutes.
Turn off oven and leave for 20 minutes. Make sure that zest is dried out thoroughly. Keep in
an airtight container until needed.
To make orange powder, process zest in a food grinder.

Strawberry Coulis
500 g strawberries (2 punnets)
100 mL water (5 tablespoons water)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 Darwin lime, juiced (strained through a fine sieve)

Prepare the strawberries and cut in half. Place them into a medium size saucepan with water
and sugar and bring to the boil. Turn the heat down and stir until sugar is dissolved. Simmer
for 5–8 minutes, until the strawberries are soft. Puree the mixture with a food wand. Pour
through a fine sieve into a tall jug, add the lime juice and stir through. Cool and place in the
fridge.

Serve Ice cream with a generous pouring of the strawberry coulis and finish with a sprinkle of orange powder.