Cardamom Ice-cream (Vegan, DF, GF)
I love the simplicity and pureness of this recipe, filled with amazing ingredients straight from Mother Nature’s door!
I adapted this recipe from my plant lab raw desserts classic, bringing a little Indian Flair with the cardamom. If you don’t like cardamom, cinnamon works well or vanilla if you’d prefer a less dominant flavour profile
Did you know Cardamom has impressive medicinal properties and has been used in traditional medicine for centuries. It has antioxidant and diuretic properties, which are said to stop the growth of tumours, lower blood pressure, prevent inflammation and act as an antibacterial. Cinnamon has similar such properties, so you are good either way. Mr B doesn’t like Cardamom, so I tend to use cinnamon for him or during the holidays a little pumpkin spice (a US classic. I can not account for the medicinal properties I am afraid, just the smile invoked by the scent of the holidays)
Ingredients
- ½ cup soaked cashews
- ½ cup. Young coconut meat or coconut cream
- ¼ cup coconut water
- 1 tbsp. crushed cardamom seeds or cardamom powder
- ¼ cup agave
- 2 tbsp. coconut oil, melted
- Pinch of salt
Method
- Blend all the ingredients together until smooth, except the coconut oil
- Stream coconut oil in last
- Process in an ice cream maker, or if you don’t have one (like me), place in a tub and freeze
