If your desire is to make a delicious ice cream from soy and you’re at home, but do not have an ice-cream maker, don’t worry ! This is a simple version of the vegan treat that can be easily made using products you surely have in your kitchen. There are just five steps to doing this:
Needed ingredients for making soy without having an ice cream maker
This is an old fashioned method, for which you’ll need agar-agar. It’s a gelatin similar to the substance obtained from seaweed. This can be found in any grocery or natural food store. You will also need to have malt sugar, vanilla, soy butter and soy milk. In fact, all these item can be easily found at any local markets.
You’ll also need to have these at hand: cheesecloth, large cooking pot and your freezer.
Step #1
First thing you need to do when you’re about to make soy ice cream without having an ice cream maker is to fill a small size bowl with cold water. Put one tablespoon of agar-agar, without stirring. Let the agar-agar in the water till it starts swelling. This should only take a couple of minutes.
Step #2
Once the agar-agar has started swelling, drain and place inside a large cooking pot. Put plain soymilk (8 cups), soy butter (2 cups) and malt sugar (2 pounds). After doing so, boil the mix for 4-6 minutes.
Step #3
After it has been boiling for 5 minutes, strain the mix thru cheesecloth into the large bowl or any other container that can be easily placed into your freezer. If you don’t have cheesecloth, a fine sieve can also be used.
Step #4
Add 1 t. of vanilla, or more if you fancy. If desired, you can always add fruit juice or crushed fruit instead of adding vanilla. What works wonderfully are crushed berries, giving you a fruity soy ice-cream.
Step #5
Place the mixture inside the freezer and let it chill and freeze completely. This time can vary a lot, it’s best to leave it a minimum of 3 ours or even overnight to be on the safe side.
Ok, so it’s now frozen. Remove it from the freezer and start enjoying your own home-made soy ice cream! To garnish, you can add fresh fruit or even a sprig of mint.