Healthy & Yummy Recipes: Homemade Gadbad Icecream

Summer is all about ice creams, fruit juices, fruit salads, coolers and fresh seasonal fruits.

After lunch or dinner we usually like to gorge on mangoes or litchis or jackfruit or desserts prepared from them especially ice-creams. In summer, lunch or dinner is not ended till you slurp down a bowl of ice-cream.

This ice-cream is very popular in coastal area of Karnataka, originally from Udupi-Mangalore, this dish is one mouthful or should I say stomach full. As a kid whenever I used to visit Udupi, we had a compulsory rule to visit to Kamat Ice-cream or Diana or when in Mangalore, it used to be Ideal ice-cream to gobble down this heavenly delight. This is the 1^st time I tried it at home, and it was a success. So here is the recipe of the Famous Gadbad Ice-cream.

Ingredients (for 2 people)

1 cup finely chopped fruits (banana, mango, apple, chikko, pineapple)

¼ cup nuts (pista, cashew, badam)

¼ cup coloured tutti frutti and raisins

2 cherries

2 scoop vanilla ice cream

2 scoop mango ice cream

2 scoop strawberry or pineapple ice-cream

¼ cup vanilla custard

¼ cup orange jelly

2 tablespoon rose syrup

Gather all ingredients

Follow the instructions given on the pack for making the custard and jelly.

Set Jelly

You can make ice-cream at home or get from outside. You can get my ice-cream recipe here.
All above two steps can be made n kept in fridge 1 day in advance.
Finely chop the fruits of your choice and keep aside. Avoid citrus or watery fruits like orange or plum. (I had used plum, but since it gets too watery its better not to add).

Chopped fruits and nuts

Soak the nuts for 1 hour in warm water so the skin can be easily peeled.
Finely slice the nuts and keep aside.
Next mammoth step is assembling the dish.
Take 2 tall glasses (since I am written down ingredients for 2 people, you can take as many glasses you want).
Bottom-most layer is chopped fruits, followed by a layer of jelly.