Delicious homemade fresh pineapple ice cream made with just 5 ingrdients, full of flavor without addtion of any egg based custard.
Today morning it was chilly and even the kids were wearing jackets to school. But by 10 in the morning it was bright and sunny and a very beautiful day. In the afternoon when I had gone to pick my daughter from school it was very nice.
We as a family love pineapple a lot. It is fruit that is always on our kitchen table, and the last weekend, I thought why I don’t I make a homemade fresh pineapple ice cream.
I have tasted pineapple coconut ice cream in favorite Haagen-Dazs brand, but never got a chance to try a pineapple ice cream. So I was skeptical of the outcome. I know the taste of pineapple, but in ice cream how would it taste I was not sure.
As usual hubby gave me a push to try it, I remember his motto, if you don’t try it how you can know the taste. My kids are the absolute taste testers when it comes to ice cream.
They start tasting it from the time I make the base, and while churning my daughter like to stand near the ice cream machine and try to scoop it at every 3 minutes intervals to test it whether it is correct taste.
I found lot of recipes that uses canned pineapple, however fresh pineapple contains bromelain, a natural mixture of two proteases (protein-digesting enzymes). Bromelain is quite effective at dividing proteins, read from here.
So if it is use directly as fruit puree addition to to heavy cream and half and half you will get something which is not what you intended it to do. So I cooked the pineapple with ¼ cup sugar in slow flame for 30 minutes, as a result the enzymes in pineapple got denatured lost its effectiveness.
The once the cooked pineapple had cooled down, it was ground into a puree and mixed with heavy cream, half and half and milk. I didn’t use eggs. Then the mixture was set aside for chilling overnight. Next day I made ice cream according to manufacturer’s instructions.
It was a delicious ice-cream full of pineapple flavor. Next time I will try with eggs also to compare the taste. You can also add some toasted coconut or coconut milk instead of heavy cream to make it pinacolada flavor.
Options are endless. I didn’t add any pieces of pineapple in the ice cream as my kids won’t like it. If you want to add finely chopped pieces, do that during the end of ice cream making. Try it you will love the fullness of natural pineapple flavor in every scoop.
I am in search of ice cream with fruit, so you can expect more delicious ice creams with various fruits and fruit combo, also there is a coffee ice cream, I am planning to make it.
Here comes the recipe.
Homemade fresh Pineapple Ice cream which is smooth, creamy without any adiditon of egg
Ingredients
- 2 cups freshly chopped pineapple
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup half and half*
- ½ cup milk
- * if you can't find half and half: you can make 1 cup of half and half by mixing ½ cup heavy cream and ½ cup milk
Instructions
- In medium sauce bowl cook pineapple with ¼ cup sugar in a medium flame for 30 minutes.
- once it is cool enough to touch grind them into fine puree
- In a bowl add heavy cream, half and half and milk and rest of sugar and mix well. Make sure to dissolve the sugar completely.
- To this cream- half and half- milk mixture add pineapple puree and chill it overnight in refrigerator or at least 2 hours. I have given overnight.
- Next morning make ice cream according to manufactures instructions.
If you don't have ice cream machine: try this method.
- First freeze a baking dish while you are preparing the ice cream mixture. Pour mixture into frozen baking dish, freeze for 45 minutes. Take it out, break up frozen bits with whisk or spatula. Repeat this process at 30 minute intervals until it’s nearly impossible to break apart anymore. Scoop into Tupperware containers and place in freezer until ready to serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Other ice cream recipes in this blog are
Homemade fresh strawberry ice cream
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Aishwarya says
Yum Yum! I am drooling here! I would be so glad if u come and link this gorgeous recipe at my 'No Bake Desserts' linky party. http://a-kaleidoscopic-dream.blogspot.com/2014/06/no-bake-desserts.html
Charlie says
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Reeni says
Very refreshing! I never had pineapple ice cream before. Homemade must be delectable - I bet the kids loved it.
radha says
love the way you describe, the explanations are useful and pineapple is my favourite flavour, have to make this ..dont know whether it will look like this though!
Rekha says
Really looks like a store-brought. So well made and perfectly scooped off..:-) Drooling here
sona says
creamy and yummy ice cream..
rebecca says
this looks so good we also love pineapple
shey says
Recipe sounds interesting swathi .. I am not a big fan of ice creams ..
Guess making home made icecreams are much more better than the store bought ..
themadscientistskitchen says
Yum I want some of this
Anu'skitchendelights says
looks sooo coool...lovely clicks ...
April @ The 21st Century Housewife says
Our weather has been changeable too, Swathi. One minute it is quite cool and the next it is sunny and warm. Your Fresh Pineapple ice cream sounds wonderful and it looks absolutely delicious. What a lovely refreshing dessert!
Nalini Somayaji says
Soothing the heat eating home made pineapple Ice cream ..delicious as it looks ..
mjskit says
It must be warming up! Swathi has pulled out the ice cream maker. 🙂 Pineapple ice cream is new for me, and you make it a MUST Make!! What a beautiful and scrumptious looking bowl of ice cream!
Mireille says
one of my fave fruits..this must be so refreshing
Suja Manoj says
Tempting pineapple ice cream,adipoli
Winnie says
Oh yes - this is a great ice cream!!
and without eggs (I don't like eggs in ice cream)
I'm definitely making this ice cream
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Gloria says
Looks so tempting...slurp....really yummy....
julie says
wow..too tempting & home made ones re d best!!!
smitha says
yum.. the sight of these ice creams itself is making me refreshed.. wonder wat if i get to taste them.. Super
Kavitha says
This is a great recipe Swathi! And so glad it is eggless. I love pineapples and this ice cream would be the perfect way to beat the dreadful Mumbai heat!
maha says
homemade pine apple ice cream. .looks wonderful swathi...
Gayathri says
Looks delicious. Ice cream with pine apple flavour will taste awesome.
Anupa says
wow....the ice cream looks tempting...as the temperature shoots up ice creams are going to be a life saver...can't wait to try it
Dipti says
Looks yummy . Will try it out.
Hema says
Love pineapple flavor, with the hot weather now, would love to have a scoop, very tempting..
Priya says
i Love pineapple like ur family do.But a bunch of pineapple lying in my fridge make me think again when i buy them .
so next time i def will try it ,bcz my kid is also a gud taste tester when comes to icecreams .
Huma says
Looks delicious. our favorite.
Eliza Lincy says
Swathi i wanna eat the whole ice cream bowl. Pineapple is my favourite flavour for ever. Drools...
Babitha costa says
loving ice creams more as heat is soo high.So creamy
Ranjani says
Swathi.. you are tempting me a lot with your ice cream preps 😉 ..i feel chill when i saw ur colourful clicks and props..so lovely 🙂