Mirj's Adapted Coconut Ice Cream

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 6 large egg yolks (save the whites for meringues)
• 2 cups rich whip (or 2 cups of heavy cream)
• 1 (15 ounce) can coconut milk
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 beat the egg yolks with a mixer until they are a pale yellow and form a thick ribbon.
• 2 in a saucepan, scald the cream.
• 3 gradually stir 1 cup of the cream into the egg yolks.
• 4 add the yolk mixture back to the saucepan.
• 5 cook the custard for another 2 - 4 minutes. do not boil. you want the custard to coat the back of a spoon.
• 6 cool the cream mixture and whisk in the can of coconut milk, salt and the vanilla.
• 7 chill for at least 4 hours.
• 8 put the chilled custard in the freezer container of your ice cream maker.
• 9 freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
• 10 alternatively, if you are pressed for time, just pour the stuff into a piece of tupperware and place in the freezer. that works just fine as well.