The Odd Fork trying to prove itself worthy of its name, created the first Greek spinach pie ice cream in history, using in the cream fresh spinach, dill and spring onions.
The oddest ice cream it has ever pinched for sure, end of story.-
For about a quart of ice cream, the Odd Fork used:
- half a kilo of fresh spinach
- half a bunch of fresh dill
- 3 fresh spring onions
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 cup fresh milk
- 1 and 2/3 cups milk cream
- 4 egg yolks
- zest of half a lemon
- some fresh fennel, optional (only the green leaves which look like dill, not the white root)
- 2 mini frozen puff pastries
Having gathered all the above, the Odd Fork washed and chopped the spinach, dill and onions. It put them into a large, heavy non-stick pot over medium heat without using any water or oil, stirring with a wooden spatula in order to reduce and have a quantity equal to a cup of tea.
Then it added the milk, cream and sugar to the pot and once this mixture began to boil it removed it from the stove, covered the pot and left it for about half an hour to steep.
It blended this spinach - milk mixture to make it as smooth as possible and poured it slowly to the egg yolks whisking constantly, returning this new mixture to the stove over low heat in order to make the custard.
Odd Fork’s advice: It is better to make the custard over boiling water (bain-marie or hot water bath) to avoid it from sticking to the bottom of the saucepan.
When the custard was nice, thick and ready, the Odd Fork removed it from heat and strained it very, very well and when it was completely cool, it put it in a plastic ice cream container and in the freezer.
Because the Odd Fork wanted its ice cream to have a soft and satisfying texture, and because it did not have an ice cream maker, it'd get it all out of the freezer, and little by little it blended the ice cream beating it in the blender to soften it. It believes that as many times as this process repeats, the better the ice cream will be.
For more flavor the Odd Fork added the lemon zest and a little fresh fennel it the first "beating". In the last "beating", it put the puff pastries after it had baked them and cut in small pieces when they cooled.
The next day the Odd Fork tasted the ice cream, was pleased and thought to share its recipe with other odd - or not - beings.
