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Celebrate summer with this exotic coconut jackfruit ice cream. Rich, silky, and so tasty, it’s made without sugar, dairy, and not even an ice cream maker!
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Vegan Jackfruit Ice Cream (No Ice Cream Maker)
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If you’re looking for healthy, vegan homemade ice cream bursting with tropical flavours, you’ve come to the right place. Today, we’ll make coconut jackfruit ice cream from scratch without using sugar, cream, and not even an ice cream machine. Sounds exciting? Let’s do it!
Coconut milk ice cream is one of Southeast Asia’s most popular ice cream flavours, while ripe yellow jackfruit is a hyper-flavourful tropical fruit often used in Asian sweets and desserts.
In this recipe, we decided to bring the two together into one wonderfully exotic ice cream!
And the brilliant thing about using coconut milk and jackfruit for ice cream is that you basically won’t need any other ingredient.
Why?
Traditional ice cream relies on high-fat heavy cream and whole milk for creaminess, plus lots of sugar for sweetness.
But because coconut milk is naturally creamy and jackfruit already tastes very sweet, you don’t have to use neither whipped cream nor refined sugar to make the ice cream silky and tasty.
This means you’ll also have super healthy homemade ice cream that’s dairy-free, sugar-free, and vegan. And incredibly good too!
So how do you use jackfruit in ice cream?
While you can simply blend and add most fruits to your ice cream base, jackfruit is a little different.
First of all, make sure you buy ripe yellow jackfruit, not the young green fruit used for vegan mock meats.
Ripe jackfruit pods look bright yellow; they’re sweet and flavourful. Jackfruit tastes like an amazing cross between mangos, bananas, and pineapples. It’s really unique!
You can find yellow jackfruit fresh, frozen, or canned at your local Asian food market, big supermarkets or online.
Because jackfruit flesh is very dense and fibrous, it doesn’t blend smoothly. So, it requires a little extra prep before you can use it for ice cream.
What you have to do is simmer the chopped fruit in a little water before blending it until smooth. It’s pretty much like making a jam!
In fact, we used our homemade jackfruit jam as a base and added this jackfruit puree to tinned coconut milk to make the ice cream mixture. Easy!
Once the ice cream base is ready, you can either pop it into your ice cream maker or follow our simple trick to churn the jackfruit ice cream by hand.
It’s super easy to do! It will just take longer than with a machine, so make sure you do this recipe when you know you’ll be home all day, like on the weekend.
But your patience will be rewarded! This ice cream is utterly delicious. You’ll love the rich and nutty taste of coconut combined with the intense tropical flavour of jackfruit.
And now that you know how to make ice cream without a machine, the sky is the limit! You can try our salted caramel coconut ice cream or lavender blueberry ice cream recipes next!
And with any leftover jackfruit puree, make a spongy jackfruit loaf cake or simply have it with oatmeal or toasted bread. Yum!
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Jackfruit Smoothie
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This tropical jackfruit smoothie pairs sweet and ripe jackfruit with tangy passion fruit and refreshing coconut water—whizz it in minutes and sip with joy!
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Jackfruit Smoothie
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How about a tropical juice to start the day with a little sunshine? This jackfruit smoothie combines three delicious exotic fruits. You can whizz it in minutes, ready for a fantastic breakfast or energising drink!
If you have ever had ripe jackfruit, we bet you loved it instantly, and if it’s your first time trying it, you’ll be in for a treat.
Unlike the young green fruit, ripe jackfruit has bright yellow pods, juicy and sweet. Its taste is a wonderful cross of four delicious tropical fruits: mangos, bananas, melon, and pineapples. Incredibly good!
You can use ripe jackfruit to prepare exotic desserts and homemade jams like this sugar-free jackfruit jam. And, of course, it’s great blended in smoothies.
If you have a local food market that sells ripe jackfruit, you can buy a large chunk there. If the chunk comes with skin, seeds, and fibrous strands, don’t worry: we’ll show you how to clean and prepare it, ready for whizzing!
Can’t find fresh jackfruit? No problem! You can get ripe jackfruit canned in syrup at well-stocked supermarkets or online. Just don’t confuse it with the tinned young jackfruit: it’s the unripe (firm and tasteless) version of jackfruit often used for mock meat in vegan recipes.
Jackfruit is so flavourful that you basically would not need to add anything else to the smoothie. But being quite “meaty”, the fruit doesn’t blend very smoothly, especially if it’s not super ripe.
So, we tipped in some coconut water to thin it out. Coconut water is tasty, refreshing and rich in electrolytes – the perfect add-on to this restoring jackfruit juice.
We also added the pulp of fresh passion fruits for an exotic burst. They go really well with jackfruit, so we recommend using them if you can find them. But otherwise, you can omit them and use only jackfruit— the smoothie will be just as tasty!
Ok, time to take your trusty blender out of the cupboard and prepare this tropical smoothie together!
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the difference between green jackfruit and ripe jackfruit?
You must use ripe jackfruit to make smoothies: the riper it is, the sweeter and tastier the smoothie will be.
Jackfruit is called green or young jackfruit when it’s unripe. It has pale green, firm flesh and a very subtle flavour.
Ripe jackfruit, instead, has bright yellow, juicy, and sweet-smelling fruit pods. Its taste is a cross between bananas, pineapple, melon, and mango.
How do you prepare ripe jackfruit for smoothies?
If you bought ripe jackfruit at the local market, you have to pull out the yellow fruit pods and deseed them before using them.
To do so, cut loose those white and narrow fibrous strands that hold the pods in place and then detach the pods (also called arils) from the hard shell.
Very Important: Before you start, you must oil your hands and knife, as those strands leek a super sticky, milky liquid that’s hard to remove even with soap.
Once you have detached all the pods, open them and remove the hard seed and the brownish membrane that holds it.
Finally, thinly chop the ripe jackfruit flesh and add it to the blender with the other ingredients.
How does this jackfruit smoothie taste?
This jackfruit smoothie has a wonderfully tropical taste as it’s made with sweet jackfruit, refreshing coconut water, and tangy passion fruit.
Ripe jackfruit tastes like a delicious cross between mangoes, melon, ripe bananas, and pineapples.
What goes well with ripe jackfruit in smoothies?
Jackfruit goes well with other exotic fruits like mangoes, bananas, guavas, and coconuts.
It also pairs well with slightly tangy fruits like passion fruit, papayas, and pineapple, as they balance the sweetness of jackfruit.
You can also tip some nut butter into the smoothie, like peanut or cashew butter, for a creamier finish and nutty flavour.
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