Delicious homemade taro root ice cream is the best treat! Also, taro ice cream is a classic and popular flavored among Asians. Beautiful violet and creamy taro ice cream recipe only has 4 simple ingredients. Let’s learn how to make homemade taro ice cream with taro powder!
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What is taro ice cream?
Taro ice cream is a popular Asian flavored ice cream. It is light purple and similar to ube, purple yam. However, taro is not the same as ube. Taro is a tropical root plant and food staple in African, Oceanic and South Asian cultures. In general, taro is less sweeter than ube.
Also, most taro ice creams don't taste much like taro at all because they do not use fresh taro root. Often, it uses taro powder instead. In this homemade taro root ice cream recipe, I use taro boba powder.
Asians love to add taro flavored into their food and drink such taiyaki, taro buns, taro boba drinks and taro sago dessert. Taro ice cream is one of my childhood favorites and I miss it so much. Therefore, I try to make it at home.
What are the ingredients for a homemade taro root ice cream recipe?
The ingredients for homemade taro root ice cream are milk, sweet condensed milk, taro boba powder and heavy whipping cream.
Cooking tips for how to make taro ice cream:
- Warm milk in the microwave for 30-45 seconds, add taro boba powder and sweet condensed milk. Mix it well and let it cool down.
- Beat the heavy whipping cream until it thickens.
- Pour taro powder mixture with heavy whipping cream and mix it well.
- Cove with a plastic wrap and freeze it for 8 hours or overnight.
- After freezing, take out the ice cream for 1-2 minutes before scooping out.
FAQs:
Taro lovers describe its flavor as sweet and nutty. When taro is cooked, it tastes much similar to sweet potatoes. While fried taro, it tastes like potato.
In creamy drinks or ice cream, such as taro bubble drink or taro ice cream, it definitely has a different flavor. Instead of potato, it resembles vanilla aroma and is creamy. If you like taro boba drinks, you will like this taro ice cream.
The rich purple color of the taro bubble powder comes mostly from food coloring. However, you can use natural purple ube powder for coloring if you like.
Taro is a tropical root plant and food staple in African, Oceanic, and South Asian cultures. In general, taro is less sweeter than ube. Also, ube is yam and the purple color is darker than taro. They are not the same, but similar starchy food.
Instructions for how to make homemade taro ice cream with taro powder:
1. Put ½ cup of 2% fat milk in a glass container and warm it in the microwave for 30-45 seconds.
2. After that, add ⅓ cup of taro boba powder into the warm milk. Mix it well.
3. Next, pour ½ cup of sweet condensed milk into the taro powder mixture.
4. Stir and mix it well. Let it set aside and cool down. (If you want to speed up the process of cooling off, put the mixture into an ice bath.)
5. In the meanwhile, pour 1 cup of heavy whipping cream into a mixing bowl.
6. Beat the cream until it thickens.
7. The following step, pour the taro mixture from step 4 into the whipped cream.
8. Mix the taro mixture and whipped cream.
9. After, pour the mixture from step 8 into another container and cover with a plastic wrap. Freeze it for 8 hours or overnight.
10. Lastly, remove the plastic wrapper after freezing for 8 hours. Let it sit for 1-2 minutes before scooping the ice cream out.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Heavy whipping cream
- ½ cup Milk (2% fat)
- ⅓ cup Taro boba powder
- ½ cup Sweet condensed milk (I used fat free)
Instructions
- Put ½ cup of 2% fat milk in a glass container and warm it in the microwave for 30-45 seconds.
- After that, add ⅓ cup of taro boba powder into the warm milk. Mix it well.
- Next, pour ½ cup of sweet condensed milk into the taro powder mixture.
- Stir and mix it well. Let it set aside and cool down. (If you want to speed up the process of cooling off, put the mixture into an ice bath.)
- In the meanwhile, pour 1 cup of heavy whipping cream into a mixing bowl.
- Beat the cream until it thickens.
- The following step, pour the taro mixture from step 4 into the whipped cream.
- Mix the taro mixture and whipped cream.
- After, pour the mixture from step 8 into another container and cover with a plastic wrap. Freeze it for 8 hours or overnight.
- Lastly, remove the plastic wrapper after freezing for 8 hours. Let it sit for 1-2 minutes before scooping the ice cream out.
Notes
Cooking tips for how to make taro ice cream:
- Warm milk in the microwave for 30-45 seconds, add taro boba powder and sweet condensed milk. Mix it well and let it cool down.
- Beat the heavy whipping cream until it thickens.
- Pour taro powder mixture with heavy whipping cream and mix it well.
- Cove with a plastic wrap and freeze it for 8 hours or overnight.
- After freezing, take out the taro ice cream for 1-2 minutes before scooping out.
Laura troquier says
Hello, I am crazy about taro ice cream but I have never seen taro powder before. Do you happen to have a recipe using real taro ?
Many thanks in advance
best regards
laura
Tracy O. says
I don't have a recipe for using only real taro for ice cream yet because I know it will not taste the same. However, I will test it out in the future.