Veggie Ice

[kerravonsen]

As I was eating my beetroot at lunch today, I started wondering which vegetables might make good ice cream (yeah, look, when one has an ice-cream maker, one's thoughts do wander in that direction). Of course, some of them might do better as blends with other things, but here are a few that I thought of:

1) Beetroot (well, I was eating it at the time)
2) Pumpkin (which Americans would attest to)
3) Sweet potato
4) Carrot
5) Tomato
6) Corn (but it might not have much flavour)
7) Peas
8) Caramelized onions?

Of course, technically speaking, a tomato is a fruit, but I don't count it as one. If one started doing that, then the only vegetables left would be leaf-vegetables and root-vegetables.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Fruits have seeds :-) (of course this makes watermelon and cucumber both fruit)

Sadly there's little to distinguish between celery (vegetable) and rhubarb (fruit) since they are both stems (I believe)

[kerravonsen]

of course this makes watermelon and cucumber both fruit
And pumpkin and other squashes.

[kerravonsen]

But celery, that gives me an idea: fennel would probably work.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've had home-made pumpkin ice cream (at a friend's place), and very good it was too! I think there was some ginger in it.

Courgettes/zucchini might be good too since they're all right in cakes. Bit tasteless though.

[kerravonsen]

My brother-in-law was raving about rhubarb-and-something-else sorbet at Christmas. I can't remember what the something-else was.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That sounds nice. I like rhubarb; we used to grow it when I was a kid.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I could imagine carrot working very well, and maybe beetroot too. Sweetcorn would need to be really fresh as the flavour tails off so fast after picking.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've had parmesan ice-cream (a spoonful dissolved into soup, delicious). And sweetcorn ice cream.

[kerravonsen]

parmesan ice-cream
Intriguing.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin ice cream FTW!!!

Also, what about red bean ice cream, like they serve at Japanese and Chinese restaurants?

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I have seen carrot ice-cream and tried it. It was very good, like the salad we often make of fine grated fresh carrots and apples with fresh lemon juice and sugar. Yum yum - leave it in a fridge and you have almost that ice cream.