Willow Creek Olive Estate recently extended their range of flavoured olive oils and they sent me a bottle of the Persian Lime Olive Oil to try out. This award winning olive oil is so heady with lime that I am absolutely in love with it. Willow Creek recommend searing some tuna in this oil, but I wanted to think a little bit outside of the box and so I created a recipe for an olive oil ice cream using this flavour. The lime was so refreshing in the heat of summer, and despite the ice cream using olive oil as an ingredient it was not fatty at all. I have also marinated some olives in the Persian Lime Olive Oil, together with some indigenous rosemary, garlic flowers and garlic cloves.
Olive Oil Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 250 mls milk
- 250 mls cream
- 5 egg yolks
- 85 g fructose
- 60 mls olive oil
Method
- Place the milk and the cream into a sauce pan and bring up to blood temperature over a medium heat
- Whisk the egg yolks and fructose until they are at a ribbon stage
- Pour half the milk mixture onto the eggs, whisking all the time
- Return the egg mixture to the milk, and stir continuously until a custard forms
- Remove from the heat, pour into a jug and refrigerate overnight
- Stir in the olive oil and churn until thick
- Place into a freezer proof container and freeze for at least 4 hours
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Disclosure: I was sent the bottle of olive oil as a gift. All opinions and facts in this post are my own. I was not required to write a blog post in exchange for this gift. This post is in line with my blogging policy.
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This is really interesting. Great one for the warm weather on our way. Take care, BAM
I have a few more ice cream recipes to share for your summer BAM 🙂
How interesting Tandy! I haven’t been brave enough to try making (or eating) olive oil ice cream before although this lime fusion sounds the ideal way to introduce myself to it 🙂 xx
This was a great flavour, and I have been wanting to try the olive oil ice cream for a long time, and what a better excuse than a lime infused oil 🙂
That’s a very clever way to use olive oil. Does it have a strong olivey taste? Or is it more limey?
It was more limey than olive oil – I would use any of the infused olive oils rather than a plain one 🙂
My Goodness! I would love to try this olive oil ice cream! 🙂 ela
Wish I could invite you over Ela 🙂
Mmmm… lime flavoured olive oil and homemade ice cream in one. Sounds divine! And no ice cream maker, yay! Will have to give this one a try 🙂
Let me know what you think Melanie 🙂
Hi Tandy
Beautiful piece about the Persian lime (we’ve done an ice-cream with it and is divine) Would you mind if I shared your article on our FB page with your credentials. Thanks
Many thanks for the compliment and the visit to my blog. You may share it with your FB page with pleasure. I am sending you an email as well 🙂
I love that you used a flavored olive oil for this! I’m sure the ice cream was a little “out there” but delicious!
I loved the lime flavour in the ice cream and would not mind trying with other flavours as well 🙂
Never had a single oil infused ice cream before, i guess i’m gonna made this with avocado oil..
can i ???
I don’t know how this will work with avocado oil so please try and let me know 🙂
I would love to taste your ice cream Tandy.
Have a happy week ahead.
🙂 Mandy xo
Pop in for a visit any time Mandy!
What a beautiful idea and lovely recipe with few ingredients and the rich flavors of olive oil.
Thank you so much Peri, and thanks for the visit 🙂
Hi Tandy, so creative and refreshing. After seeing something like this I need to really go out and buy the ice cream maker.
You will not regret buying an ice cream maker 🙂
What lovely oils to try and so innovative 🙂
Yum!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thank you Uru, the oils was amazing!
What a clever idea! 🙂 I never thought of using olive oil in ice cream, but you have me utterly intrigued. 🙂
I hope that you try this Krista 🙂
Amazing – I really want to try this with our own olive oil. I had heard of olive oil ice creambut never eaten or made it – what a great idea!
How lucky that you can try this with your very own amazing olive oil! It will be superb for sure 🙂
Wow, that IS a great, unique use for the olive oil. Looks great.
Thank you Joyti 🙂
Love your version of olive oil ice cream Tandy! We have been able to enjoy olive oil ice cream here in California, and your delicious recipe sounds so easy that we have to try some soon.
J+C
Thanks for the compliment Judit and Corina, and I hope you do try and make this 🙂
Great, unique recipe!
Thank you Squishy 🙂
I bet this has an amazing flavour – I had olive oil icecream once in a Greek restaurant, and was amazed at how delicious it was!
I have only ever seen it being made on cooking shows and so I was well pleased with the flavour 🙂
This ice cream looks pretty wonderful! I’ve been wanting to make olive oil ice cream. I like that it’s lime flavored, too.
Hope you give it a try now Amy 🙂
So interesting using olive oil in ice cream…the ice cream looks very rich and lime sounds absolutely delicious!
Thanks for this awesome recipe Tandy…hope you are having a lovely week 😀
Thank you for the compliment Juliana! I am having a super week so far and hope you are too 🙂
What a delicious sounding olive oil, and such a great idea to make ice-cream with it. I will have to pull out my ice-cream maker.
Hope you enjoy it Julie 🙂
I made your divine ice-cream today & everyone who tasted it, loved it, tandy! DIVINE! x
Thank you for letting me know that!
Tandy, this sounds exquisite! I am sorry I’ve been missing your posts… looks like I need to sign up again, as I really enjoy your writing and recipes xo
Thanks Lizzy! I don’t know what has gone wrong with my subscription list 🙁
🙂 xxx
I’m very interested in trying this! Thanks Tandy!
Let me know what you think once you have given it a go 🙂