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Nigella Lawson recipes Bitter orange ice cream recipe

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Date Published:: 09/10/2007

This Nigella recipe is taken from her popular Channel 4 series Nigella Bites, based on her popular book How To Eat.

I know that suggesting homemade icecream for an easy after-work supper makes me sound as if I'm going into deranged superwoman overdrive, but may I put the case for the defence?

All you do to make this is zest and juice some fruit, add icing sugar and cream, whisk and freeze. This requires no stirring or churning and it tastes unlike anything you could buy. So if you've got friends coming over for the curry, above, you can serve this for pudding to amazed admiration without giving yourself anything approaching a hard time.

I use my KitchenAid for this, but a cheap handheld electric mixer would do fine; and frankly, a handwhisk wouldn't kill you.

Serves 6

Ingredients

3 Seville oranges or 1 eating orange and 2 limes
175g icing sugar
large pot (584 ml) double cream
wafers to serve (optional)

Method: How to cook bitter orange ice cream

1.If using Seville oranges, grate the zest of two of them. Squeeze the juice of all 3 and pour into a bowl with the zest and sugar. If going for the sweet- orange and lime option, grate the zest of the orange and one of the limes, juice them and add to the sugar as before. Stir to dissolve the sugar and add the double cream.

2.Whip everything until it holds soft peaks, and then turn into a shallow airtight container (of approximately 2 litres) with a lid. Cover and freeze until firm (from 3-5 hours). Remove to ripen for 15-20 minutes (or 30-40 in the fridge) before eating.

3.Serve in a bowl, in cones, with wafers - however you like.