I made ice cream and made people taste it as a test. I used my 4 ingredient egg white recipe and made matcha green tea ice cream. And it was a hit!
I’ve made the matcha green tea ice cream a couple of times using my Granny’s keto egg white ice cream recipe. And both were great. I upp’d the amount of green tea this second time and it was probably the most I would go.
The ingredients are simple. And no messy making a custard! I’m wanting to try the same recipe base but instead of sour cream using yoghurt next time. Not sure if it will work but it should do.
So egg whites, sour cream, powdered sweetener, vanilla and matcha green tea. Voila. So simple!
The first time I made it, I served it at my Chinese New Year dinner. We had steam boat / hot pot and dessert was ice cream. I actually made two keto ice creams for that evening – green tea (matcha) and black sesame ice cream. The two recipes were different. One was using the egg white recipe and the other was a traditional custard base. And it was obvious the egg white/granny one was superior! And I think I’ve hacked it now so that it’s the best possible and simplest possible. I’m now using egg white… out of a carton! The egg whites are good because I am able to freeze what I don’t use. I just measure it out and pop them into zip lock bags and defrost them in the fridge overnight. And get them back to room temperature for whipping.
So onto the recipe…
Green tea keto ice cream (Matcha Ice Cream)
Ingredients
- 7 tsp Xylitol Need to powder this so it's more like icing sugar but I measure approximately 7 teaspoons pre powdered
- 2/3 cup Sour Cream
- 3 egg whites remember to separate the egg whites and egg yolks carefully
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence (optional)
- 1 tsp green tea powder
Instructions
- Firstly powder the 7 teaspoons of xylitol in your food processor. I have a Bamix food processor and use that till I get a fine powder. As this ice cream has no cooking there is no opportunity to 'melt' the sweetener. Let the "dust" settle before opening the processor lid. Set aside.
- Whip up the egg whites till they form soft peaks.
- Add the powdered sweetener and green tea powder. You may want to mix the green tea powder and sweetener together before putting it in with the egg whites. Beat or whip the egg whites a bit more till there is a lot of volume.
- Fold in the vanilla essence and sour cream.
- Add to the ice cream churn/ice cream maker. Or freeze the mixture and stir every 30 or so minutes till it's frozen.
Notes
You may be wondering why the other coloured ice creams in the main picture — we also tested out commercially available ice cream which is mostly keto friendly – Fropro salted caramel ice cream and Halotop Cookies and Cream. The matcha was the favourite and tasted like ‘real’ ice cream.
Stay tuned to a future post where I review the Fropro Salted Caramel Ice Cream!
