Thursday 10 February 2022

Fruity dragonfruit instant 'ice cream'

I'm having a dragonfruit kind of summer! (Dragon fruit/dragonfruit? - I dunno.)  I made this dessert when our Tassie friend dropped by recently, and I've made it again because it's delicious.  You will need a large and powerful blender or food processor for this, my friends!

I have another version of this on the blog already, but I'm easing myself into blogging again, so I thought why not?  Two birds one stone etc ...  Have I mentioned that I fell over again just before Christmas?  At least I fell fully on my knee, so my ribs had a shakeup but not a catastrophic event.  My knee wasn't happy though.  Reminder to self: Do not slip on wet bathroom floors!!

  


Miss P. doing the instant ice cream shuffle


This recipe is taken from a Matt Preston (Aussie food critic/cookbook author) one.  And as regards copyright  - I've rewritten the prose (as I always do).  Aussie copyright law says a list of ingredients is not under copyright (I mean how many ways can you say - one teaspoon of sugar?), but the prose is subject to it, so I always put the method in my own words.


Anyway, here it is:


Serves 6:


ingredients:


500g. (17 oz) frozen dragonfruit (or fruit of your choice)

40-50g. (1.5 oz approx) caster sugar or icing sugar

1 large egg white

1-2 tbs cherry liqueur (or vanilla extract or your fave liqueur)

1-2 tbs lemon juice, if not using liqueur

fresh fruit for serving, and some chopped-up dried fruit if you wish to gild the lily - I used dried dragonfruit of course :-)


Method:


Grab your super-sonic processor/blender and throw in the fruit

Whizz it and whizz it and whizz it till it starts to get soft and creamy - will take several (even 5) minutes

Add the sugar after a couple of minutes of whizzing, or when you remember it

Then tip in the egg white and the liqueur, and give it a quick blitz

Serve immediately with the fresh and dried fruit

Will store in the freezer for a few days, but is best eaten ASAP


Notes:


I used a mix of fruit - mostly dragonfruit with some raspberries and strawberries - but you choose!  You can use bananas, or pineapple, or stone fruit; whatever you fancy.  Just chop it up and freeze it before using in this dessert.  I bought the frozen dragonfruit (too lazy to peel and chop the spiky, fresh ones), but sliced up the strawberries and froze them the night before with the fresh raspberries



just a few ingredients

frozen fruit ready for blitzing

just starting to go creamy on the right hand side

and here's Miss K. about to dig in - yes really it's that pink!

so strange!  Looks kinda like dried liver or dead dog - tee hee

looks pretty odd when dried, but all-Aussie so that's good

and the ever-delightful Miss P. the Poet about to indulge when she was here

The first one was not quite as vibrant in colour as the one I made most recently; I think I used a greater mixture of berries and dragonfruit that time, so it didn't go quite as vibrantly, lusciously pink!  This is so simple and so fresh; definitely worth a go.



(Nasir Khan Bangladesh - Wikimedia Commons)

34 comments:

  1. That looks very luscious with the combination of tropical flavors with more temperate-zone fruits. I've only seen dragonfruit in Hawaii, not here in the frozen north.

    best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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    1. hi Mae
      we grow a lot of tropical fruit up north here, in Darwin and northern Queensland. and we have temperate climates down south so we get the best of both worlds!

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  2. U.S. law says the same thing about copyright. You can't copyright a list of ingredients. Nor can you copyright a title (think of all the textbooks on Algebra, for example). The general rule is you can't copyright an idea (and a recipe list is an idea; as is a formula or an equation like 2+2=4). What you can do is copyright the expression of the idea (which is where the prose part of the description of the method comes in). Anyway, this looks terrific -- nice recipe. Sorry to hear you fell again. :-(

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    1. thanks KR! I'm starting to feel a lot better these days. no more falling over!!

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  3. A perfectly healthy and yummy nice cream :-)

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    1. thanks angie. it is delightful to eat AND you feel virtuous.

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  4. This looks delicious, Sherry. I can’t find fresh dragon food much less frozen, but I will keep trying. I’ve never even tasted it!

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    1. it's wonderful david. and so pretty. we are lucky that we can get it fresh or frozen.

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  5. I've never seen the dried dragonfruit here in the US ( I'll look for it) but I do love homemade frozen desserts such as the one that you made.

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    1. thank you judee. it does look kinda hilarious though ...

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  6. wow that is pretty. Wish I could taste it!

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  7. I honestly need one right now!

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  8. Have never seen frozen dragon fruit! Interesting though.

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  9. Looks wonderful Sherry, I use dragon fruit in my smoothies using aloe juice or coconut water - delicioys

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  10. I love my Vitamix for such instant ice cream. We rarely see this color of dragon fruit here but would definitely look for frozen.

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    1. hi balvinder yes the red/pink dragonfruit is soooo pretty.

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  11. Glad you are enjoying your summner Sherry and what better way to do it than with this delicious ice cream! Roll on winter here in Scotland so I can enjoy ice cream's like this too!

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    1. thank you Neil. yes ice cream always helps :-) Any time of year.

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  12. This is such a nice and attractive looking recipe Sherry. I was sure I had left a comment before, I must have just read it and then become distracted, due to the busyness of our lives lately.I often see fresh dragonfruit at our markets, so I could probably improvise with the fresh ones somehow, dont you think.They must just freeze well.

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    1. thanks pauline. I do that all the time, thinking I've already commented... Yes definitely you can peel and chop and freeze the fresh fruits. I was just too lazy to do it, except for the berries which were so easy to do.

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  13. I don’t think I have ever tried dragonfruit. I rarely see it locally and never frozen. Your recipe looks delicious though.

    Recovery from a fall can take time. I have had back issues for years and after the fall off my bike in early October, my back is recovering still. I hope you heal well and soon.

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    1. thanks marie. yes i was amazed at the time it has taken to recover. the ribs healed but the muscles turned to concrete and would NOT get better for 6 months. but getting there now...

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  14. Yikes - that dried dragonfruit certainly doesn't look too attractive! But you turned it into something delicious with this ice cream, Sherry. I'm not sure I've seen dragonfruit here, but I bet I could order it on Amazon! Keeping this one in mind for when it warms up here...whenever that might happen. Haha!

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  15. This looks amazing! Can you believe I've NEVER tried dragonfruit before?! *blush!* - https://domesticgeekgirl.com

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  16. That looks fabulous. I'm really glad you are getting back into regular blogging again.

    And I've never had dragonfruit either. In fact, I've never seen it!

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