We love our ice-cream in any form. But what if we were to tell you that you can enjoy the flavours of paan and green tea in your ice creams too? Intrigued? Deepali Dhingra visits Skky at Ramada, Powai to find the chefs making hand-crafted ice creams in exotic flavours
You scream, we scream, we all scream for ice cream. Well, that’s because ice cream is something that brings out the kid in all of us. And with different brands offering a variety of delightful flavours, we’re spoilt for choice. We’re told that at Skky, the pan Asian restaurant at Ramada-Powai, the chefs have prepared an array of hand-crafted ice creams in flavours such as Paan, Green Tea, Kiwi and Basil, Fresh Lemon and more.
The paan ice cream has ingredients such as gulkand, saunf, almonds, dried apricots . Pics/Sayesd Sameer Abedi
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That piques our interest and we drop in to meet Rohan Koppikar, Chef De Cuisine, to tell us a bit more about it. “Earlier, we used to keep commercial ice creams, but soon we realised that very few people opted for dessert in a speciality restaurant. So we decided to try something new and came up with these flavours,” he says.
Along with Jr Sous Chef Vikas Rane, Koppikar demonstrates the procedure of preparing Paan and Green Tea ice creams. “For Paan flavoured ice cream, ingredients such as gulkand, saunf, almonds, dried apricots etc are readily available. For the betel leaf, the Kolkata leaf works best,” he says. As for the Green Tea, the chefs use green tea powder for the flavouring. “Green tea is an acquired taste,” says Koppikar, while Rane tells us he must have tried out the recipe more than 20 times just to get the right taste. “While green tea is had to lose weight, with this green tea ice cream, you can only gain weight,” guffaws Koppikar.
While the chefs prepare the ice creams, and the tantalising smell of gulkand and saunf fills the air, I lick my lips with anticipation for the ice cream to be presented to me for tasting. All I can say is, it was worth the wait!
Jr Sous Chef Vikas Rane mixes the green tea powder for the green tea ice cream
Green Tea Ice creamIingredients
>>u00a03 litre single fat cream
>>u00a00.5 litre double fat cream
>>u00a01 ml vanilla essence
>>u00a00.3 gms castor sugar
>>u00a0Pinch of salt
>>u00a00.1 gms Green tea powder
Method
>>u00a0Bring the single cream to a boil and simmer it on a slow flame for about 30 minutes
>>u00a0Let the cream cool down to room temperature
>>u00a0u00a0Take the cooled cream in a bowl, add the double cream, a pinch of salt, vanilla essence and sugar and blend well with a whisk
>>u00a0u00a0Add this mixture with the green tea powder to the ice cream machine and whisk the contents at 75 rpm at a temperature of -12°C for six hours
>>u00a0u00a0Freeze the contents at a temperature of -18 to -20 °C
Paan ice cream
ingredients
>>u00a03 litre single fat cream
>>u00a00.5 litre double fat cream
>>u00a00.001 litre vanilla essence
>>u00a00.3 gms castor sugar
>>u00a0Pinch of salt
>>u00a05 betel leaves
>>u00a00.05 g gulkand
>>u00a00.02 g almonds
>>u00a00.02 g cashewnuts
>>u00a00.02 g raisins
>>u00a00.02 g dried apricots
>>u00a00.02 g flavoured fennel
Method
>> Bring the single cream to a boil and simmer it on slow flame for about 30 minutes
>>u00a0Let the cream cool down to room temperature
>>u00a0Roughly grind the betel leaves with gulkand, almonds, cashewnuts, raisins, dried apricots and flavoured fennel to make a thick paste
>>u00a0Take the cooled cream in a bowl, add the double cream, a pinch of salt, vanilla essence and sugar and blend well with a whisk
>>u00a0u00a0Add this mixture with the paste to the ice cream machine and whisk the contents at 75 rpm at a temperature of -12°C for six hours
>>u00a0Freeze the contents at a temperature of -18 to -20 °Cu00a0
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