Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, cassata ice-cream. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

"Cassata ice cream!" T his is an exotic ice cream from India. Quite similar to the original Italian concept of cassata ice cream but just different recipe adapted to suit Indian tastebuds and preferences. It comprises of layers of ice cream. Cassata Ice Cream is a succulent dessert recipe that is named after a traditional Italian sweet.

Cassata ice-cream is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cassata ice-cream is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cassata ice-cream using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cassata ice-cream:

1. Take 1 litre vanilla ice-cream
2. Get 150 g mixed dried fruit (with or without peel)
3. Take 50 ml amaretto or rum
4. Get 150 g chopped glacé cherries
5. Make ready 150 g unsalted pistachio nuts, bashed in pestle and mortar
6. Take 150 g frozen raspberries
7. Get Zest of half a lemon

The term cassata stands for little case, and the ice cream typically has a bricklike shape. This ice cream is believed to be inspired by a very popular sweet in Sicily called cassata. This cassata ice cream recipe takes a little patience but is not hard to make at all. This is a homemade ice cream that does not require any machines.

Steps to make Cassata ice-cream:

1. If raspberries are fresh, pop them in the freezer. Remove ice-cream from freezer. Combine dried fruit with amaretto and then spend 10 minutes chopping glacé cherries and bashing the nuts in to good sized pieces (not too fine), and zesting half a lemon
2. Now the fruit should have absorbed most of the alcohol, the raspberries will be chilled or frozen and the ice-cream will have softened but not melted. Turn the ice-cream in to a large bowl and mix with a spoon to break it up a little
3. Add all the ingredients to the ice-cream and fold in, being careful to not over-work.
4. Spoon mix back in to original tub. You will need a second tub to fit it all in. Freeze immediately. Best left overnight. Will keep in freezer for 2 months.

This cassata ice cream recipe takes a little patience but is not hard to make at all. This is a homemade ice cream that does not require any machines. You can make this layered ice cream with different flavors. I decided to make it with strawberry/raspberry, coconut and blueberries. Nici Wickes' easy version of cassata ice cream is perfect if you're not a big fan of Amaretto or glacé cherries.

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