Hi Friends! How have you been?
Things have been so quite here but not so much in my kitchen. Most days, we are eating fresh and home cooked, the kitchen is so busy  but other priorities in life have made me slightly busy that there is less time to set up shoots and hence the lack of posts. But I guess, sometimes in life, you need to cut the routine to see how doing nothing or something different feels. This summer I am involving myself in things which I have not done in last few years, more on that later. It is good to be away for a while. Hope you missed me 🙂 However, I will keep this space buzzing whenever I can.Meanwhile, you can catch me on Instagram & Facebook.
I grew up eating it in small grey cardboard cups which had a flip lid. You flip away the lid and a couple of chubby brown raisins stared at you on top of blushing pink with soft bits of cashews scattered in. I always used my nails to pick the raisins out first and then the paddle shaped wooden spoon to scoop the rest. One cup disappeared after another in no time, sitting under the shade of  kumquat tree in blazing indian summer heat, sweaty foreheads, dripping cream on our dresses and white foamy mustaches, oh to be a child again!
I came up with this recipe fueled by this tradition in my kitchen to come up with an ice cream recipe each summer.It came out amazing, like most homemade ice creams do. I used a subtle flavor of green cardamom but vanilla will work great also. The husband loved it.I loved it and so did our little girl who is fond of all things cashew. I hope you will love it too!
Update 10/03/2015 Recently Sinfully Spicy was included in Top 50 Blogs of India. Link here
Recipe
Soak 1 cup raw cashews for 5-6 hrs. Drain. Bring 4 cups of water to a boil, add the soaked cashews and let boil for 5-8 mins. Drain and let cool down completely. Transfer to a blender and using 1/3 to 1/2 cup evaporated milk (or full fat milk) grind the cashews to a coarse paste.
Mix 2 cups of heavy cream with a 14oz can of condensed milk. You can add sugar(about 1/4 cup) if you want to adjust sweetness. Mix the cashews paste along with 1 tsp fresh ground cardamom. Combine well, transfer to the dish in which you want to freeze and freeze for 5-6 hours. When the mixture starts freezing and has a pudding consistency,add in handful of dry toasted cut up cashews(optional) along with 1/2 cup of golden raisins. Freeze overnight. Scoop and serve.
Mmmmmmm cardamon!!!
A heavenly ice cream and great creation! Perfect pictures as always.
Cheers,
Rosa
What a beautiful and decadent ice cream – perfect. People don’t use raisins enough.
Cashews and Raisins…I am not sure if I am strange, but I would pick these flavors any day over a typical ben and jerrys ice cream flavor…sounds perfect compliment to a creamy custard 🙂
Hi. I’m very interested in the Indian culture, traditions and language. That’s why when I graduate from college, I want to go to India, but I have a long way to go. I really want to try some of the Indian food and sweets because it looks good.
wow that’s yummy 😀
I really like the addition of the green cardamom. Spectacular! Not everyone knows you should use the green cardamon and not the brown cardamon. I know your ice cream would taste fantastic. I’m glad I found your blog!
wow… that´s yummy 😀
cashews are my favourites!!!
Finally a delicious Indian dessert recipe we can try, we’ve never gone down that road before 🙂 Keep your fingers crossed for these inexperienced Europeans 🙂
Yumm.. I love ice cream and this one looks particularly delicious. the problem is the only time I actually made an ice cream was in ice cream making game Papa’s Freezeria at http://papasgames.us/papas-freezeria/ so i’m not really sure If I can make a real one, but it’s time to learn 🙂 thanks for the lovely recipe.
that melty ice cream photo tho….. mouth watering!
That ice cream looks so good that I want to cry! <3 <3
Haha:)
Mmm… So decadent, so indulgent. Looks heavenly. Greetings from an amateur-cook from Poland.
Absolutely adore this ice cream!
I really want to make this!
WOW, have to make this. Looks fantastic. 🙂 Have you tried it with pistachios?
Wow! I love it. That looks so delish. Will definitely try it! 🙂
OMG! This looks so good, I want to make it so bad.
Wow gorgeous photography as always!! Love that you are back & CONGRATS!!!
Just beautiful, the photography makes is look so elegant, any tips for a new kid on the block?