MANGO-PEACH LOW FAT ICE-CREAM...eggless

Lexie Saige

With summer here, can ice-cream & popsicles be far behind? Finally mangoes have reached their peak in availability & taste. There can be nothing better than enjoying their superb flavour...it's amazing how flooded the market is, but just until July, because this is the time when the fruit begins to ripen. It's also the saving grace for the high temperatures we suffer here during this time...43-44C wouldn't have been possible without this delectable fruit!Bought more than a few kilos of mangoes than I needed too a while ago ... because the batch looked so good. With peaches keeping them good company, they were quite obviously headed for the freezer ... time for ice-cream, what else? I wanted to make a mango kulfi, but the peaches were naughty, & tripped me along the way ... & I landed up with this! I love the combination of peaches & mangoes. Might increase the peaches next time to get a deeper, more-pronounced peach flavour for my little peach monster! You can skip the peaches altogether & make just a mango version too. I think roasting the peaches before might twist the flavour differently! I used a combination of low fat cream & hung yogurt in the recipe here to cut the calories. The ice-cream was delicious & refreshing ... & melting fast, might I add!

MANGO-PEACH ICE-CREAM (Eggless)
Ingredients:
5 mangoes - (about 1.5kg), peeled & roughly chopped
7-8 peaches ; blanched,peeled & roughly chopped
1 1/2 cups sugar (adjust according to sweetness of mangoes)
200ml low fat cream (25% fat)
1/2 cup hung yogurt (hung from a height for about 2 hours)
Juice of 2 limes
1tsp almond essence
Pinch of salt

Place the mangoes & peaches in a deep bowl & blend with the immersion blender.

Add the remaining ingredients & blend well again till thoroughly mixed. Adjust sugar if required.

Turn into a freezer container, & whisk every hour to distribute the crystals, at least 4-5 times. (or use the instructions on your ice-cream maker; I don't have one so I use elbow grease!!)

Leave to set for 6-8 hours, or preferably overnight.