Blood Orange Saffron Healthier Vegan Ice Cream with Pistachios

This Blood Orange Saffron Healthier Vegan Ice Cream with Pistachios is sooo creamy dreamy. It is silky smooth and full of decadent flavours. Blood orange and saffron are two flavours made for each other. They are slightly sweet, floral, and fresh. Mixing in roasted pistachios adds a delicious nutty touch. This is the perfect vegan dessert for any special occasion, or just any day you want a delicious treat! Perhaps this is the perfect New Year’s Eve recipe you’ve been looking for??

Health Benefits

Silken tofu gives this ice cream a suuper creamy texture, and allows you to use less heavy cream. Silken tofu adds some great nutritional benefits to this ice cream. Tofu has all the essential amino acids that your body needs, so it’s a fantastic source of plant based protein, vitamins and minerals. This means you won’t purely be eating empty calories while enjoying a serving of this Blood Orange Saffron Healthier Vegan Ice Cream with Pistachios. The fact that it is made with tofu, I mean you’d seriously never guess. It’s amazing! Experimenting with healthier ingredients is something I’m passionate about, just like my recipe for Healthier Triple Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge Brownie Vegan Ice Cream!

The variety of vegan ice cream flavours in grocery stores is finally starting to grow, but ice cream has always been one of my absolute favourite desserts so a while ago I decided to take matters into my own hands! Because I simply wasn’t happy with only eating chocolate or vanilla ice cream. So now making new plant based ice cream flavours is something I LOVE experimenting with. And this is a flavour combination I am SO pleased with. This flavour is deliciously sweet, fresh, floral and a bit citrusy! This Blood Orange Saffron Healthier Vegan Ice Cream with Pistachios is very refreshing and a perfect light dessert.

Decorations

I decorated this ice cream with candied blood orange slices, dried edible flowers and roasted pistachios to make the dessert feel extra fancy! So if you’re looking for a fun and fresh new flavour to make for guests for New Year’s dinner, make this delicious ice cream!! It’s totally decadent and festive!

This plant based ice cream is very quick and easy to make, and it is suuper creamy and full of flavour. And trust me, if you’re sceptical about tofu being in ice cream… don’t worry because you 10000% can NOT taste it! All you can taste in this ice cream is a dish full of drool worthy creamy dreaminess!

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Blood Orange Saffron Healthier Vegan Ice Cream with Pistachios

by Baking Me Healthy

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Churning Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Holiday baking, Plant Based, Vegan

Equipment

• Ice Cream Machine

Ingredients

  

Ice Cream Ingredients

• 200 g silken tofu
• 0.5 g saffron
• 500 ml oat milk/cream (I used 13% fat)
• 200 ml raw sugar use more or less, to taste
• 1 ½ – 2 tsp organic blood orange zest
• splash or two freshly squeezed juice from a blood orange
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Toppings

• dried edible flowers
• roasted pistachios, unsalted
• candied blood orange slices homemade, or purchased

Instructions

 

• Use this recipe to make the candied blood orange slices OR this recipe.
• Add all of the ice cream ingredients to a high speed blender. I used my vitamix and it mix everything together and broke down the sugar granules perfectly. However, if you don't have a high speed blender that will mix up the sugar properly, you can dissolve the sugar in a saucepan on the stove with part of the oat milk. This is necessary so you won't have crunchy sugar granules in your ice cream. Mix until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• If you've heated up the sugar on the stove, let the mixture cool a bit before adding to your blender. Then once it has cooled a bit, mix up the tofu and the rest of the ingredients in your blender until everything is perfectly combined and smooooth.
• Pour the ice cream into your ice cream maker following the instructions of your machine.
• Once the ice cream is done churning, transfer the ice cream to a freezer safe container or serve immediately depending on how frozen your ice cream is.
• Serve with chopped roasted pistachios, dried edible flowers, and blood orange slices.
• Enjoy!

Keyword blood orange, dairy free ice cream, ice cream, pistachio, plant based, saffran, saffron, vegan