
Lemon ice cream – mint - apple
A recipe for lemon ice cream.This dish consists of:
- Lemon ice cream
- Gin granita
- Lime and mint jelly
- Cucumber in jelly
- Geosmotized apple
- Frozen green apple espuma
Ingredients
1100gSiracusa lemon puree
1100gSugar
750gCream
300gstabilizer
2250gMilk
300gglucose powder
300gSugar
3gelatin leaves - soaked
1.5lMineral water
400gGin
400gMineral water
150gSugar
3gelatin leaves
40gMint leaves
35gSimple syrup*
125gCucumber
1Granny Smith apple
5gSimple syrup*
14gGin
Liquid nitrogen
100gSimple syrup*
3gelatin leaves - soaked
200gGranny Smith apple
Preparation
- Mix all ingredients cold and blend for 5 minutes.
- Let rest for 6 to 12 hours.
- Blend again to homogenize the mixture.
- Make ice cream from it in an ice cream machine.
- Make a syrup from the water and sugar and melt the gelatin in it.
- Let the syrup cool in the refrigerator and then add the gin.
- Place it in the freezer.
- Once the mixture is frozen, scrape it with a fork to make a granita.
- Infuse the mint leaves in the cold mineral water: mix everything in a vacuum bag and let rest in the refrigerator for 36 hours.
- Strain the water and heat with the sugar.
- Add the soaked gelatin and the lime purée.
- Let it set and rest in the refrigerator until use.
- Cut the cucumber, but not all the way through. Form half-centimeter cubes.
- Pour over the syrup and let rest in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
- Cut the apple into 1 cm cubes, without the peel.
- Place with the other ingredients in a vacuum bag.
- Vacuum at 100% and let rest in the refrigerator until use.
- Heat the syrup and melt the soaked gelatin in it.
- Blend the apple and mix with the syrup.
- Strain the apple syrup and put the mixture in a siphon.
- Let rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Dispense the espuma into a small bowl and use two spoons to form small balls.
- Place the balls directly into the nitrogen.
- Stir until evenly frozen and remove from the nitrogen once the outside is frozen.
- Store them in the freezer until use.
- Place two spoons of lime jelly in the center of a shallow plate.
- On the right, using a ring, place the cucumber and apple and scoop a spoonful of granita on top.
- Finish with a quenelle of lemon ice cream, lime zest, and a frozen ball of espuma.