Exploring Soursop

The soursop is a tropical fruit and it’s used as ice creams flavour, smoothie or just eaten as fruit.Soursop starts flowering after three years from planting; it continues fruiting every other year in great numbers.

Studies discovered that the antioxidant components of soursop may help to lower levels of excessive inflammation, kill cancer cells, fight bacteria, reduce inflammation and stabilise blood sugar levels.

The Ice cream soursop

Inverted Sugar syrup (Make this with a cup of sugar, 2 cups of water and one egg)

1 cup of cream tarter

Fresh milk or water

1/2 teaspoon of lime juice, optional

Vanilla extract

Preparation

Place the sop pulp, cream and milk in a medium pot. Bring to boil. Stir occasionally to prevent it from sticking.

Whip the inverted sugar until creamy.

Mix the soursop cream and sugar, bring to boil.

Remove from the heat.

Whip the mixture with a hand mixer until very creamy.

Add little lime juice and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Cool in room temperature until completely cold.

Place in a  container and place in freezer

Remove from the freezer every hour or as frozen as it becomes and whip quickly.

Repeat this process 4-6 times until the mixture has the consistency of ice cream.

To be continued

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