With homemade strawberry ice cream you get the taste of real strawberries – and it tastes so much better. Lots of sweet strawberries give real colour and flavour instead of artificial additives. An ice cream loved by ice cream eaters young and old!

Serve with homemade strawberry sauce (strawberry coulis). Recipe and photos by Det søte liv.

How to make strawberry ice cream

1. Heat the milk
   Put the milk and cream in a saucepan. Split the vanilla pod and add both the seeds and the pod to the pan. Bring to the boil.
2. Infuse
   Take the pan off the heat and let the vanilla infuse while the mixture cools. When it has reached room temperature, remove the vanilla pod.
3. Whisk the yolks
   Whisk the egg yolks and sugar until thick and pale. Stir the vanilla milk into the egg mixture.
4. Purée the strawberries
   Hull the strawberries and purée them finely with a blender or stick blender. Stir the strawberry purée into the ice cream mixture.
5. Churn
   Pour the strawberry mixture into the ice cream maker and churn until it has turned into soft strawberry ice cream.
6. Serve
   Serve straight from the ice cream maker if you like your ice cream soft. For a completely firm ice cream, transfer it to a container and freeze for 1–2 hours before serving.

How to make strawberry sauce

1. Simmer
   Put strawberries, sugar, the juice of half a lime and boiling water in a saucepan. Simmer over low heat until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Blend
   Blend with a stick blender or blender until smooth. Add more sugar to taste and chill the sauce in the fridge until serving.

Tips:

• Use sweet, tasty strawberries for the best strawberry flavour.
• You can also use frozen strawberries – thaw them first, then weigh out the correct amount.
• The strawberry ice cream is great just as it is, without any accompaniments!