Homemade strawberry ice cream, an excellent ice cream that’s easy and quick to make at home with fresh strawberries and without an ice cream maker. Just blend the strawberries and add them to the other few simple ingredients to obtain an excellent ice cream in minutes to enjoy at any time of the day. Great as a dessert after a meal, delightful as a snack for the little ones on hotter days. When strawberries are not available, other fruits can be used. The essentials for preparing strawberry ice cream are really few, fresh strawberries, fresh cream, and sugar or alternatively condensed milk or glucose syrup. So let’s see how to prepare it
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 1 ice cream tub
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients for Strawberry Ice Cream
- 18 oz strawberries
- 1 cup fresh cream
- 3/4 cup sugar (less if using sweetened cream)
Tools to Prepare Strawberry Ice Cream
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Knife
- 1 Blender
- 1 Container
Steps for Strawberry Ice Cream
First, we wash the strawberries, preferably with water and baking soda, leaving them to soak in a bowl for 10 minutes. Then rinse, dry, and cut them into pieces.
To prepare the ice cream, we can proceed in 2 ways, either freeze the strawberries or whip the cream. The first method with frozen strawberries.
Method with frozen strawberries. Put the frozen strawberries in a blender, with the cream well chilled from the fridge, and the sugar. This way, we get ice cream ready to enjoy immediately, or we can put it in a tub and freeze it if it’s not consumed immediately or if it’s too soft.
Method with whipped cream. In a clean bowl, whip the well-chilled cream from the fridge with electric beaters. Blend the strawberries with sugar, if needed add a bit of cream to get a nice strawberry puree. Add the blended strawberries to the whipped cream, transfer to a tub, and freeze.
After a few hours, our strawberry ice cream will be ready to enjoy.
If you want to prepare a lighter version, you can replace the cream with yogurt, or even with water, preparing a syrup with the sugar.
As an alternative to sugar, you can use condensed milk or glucose syrup in smaller quantities.
