Queso helado (Freezing cheese)
Despite of its name, it isn’t cheese; this dessert is rather as an ice cream, but with more advantages: it’s more natural, fresh, without any chemicals and healthy. You’ll find it easily in Arequipa, a city in the south of Peru. It’s not complicated! this recipe is for 10 people (in theory… if you try it, it will be for 2 or 3 people).
Ingredients:
- 24 egg yolks
- 18 teaspoons of powdered sugar
- 6 unflavored gelatin sheets
- 3/4 cup of milk
- 2 cups of cream
Preparation:
An hour and a half previous to the preparation, put a mold in your freezer.
Put a bowl on your cooker’s griddle and beat the yolks with the sugar.
When the mix has grown and it doens’t stick to the bowl’s brim, remove from the flame and add the gelatin sheets dissolved in boiling milk. Mix all very well and let it cool down.
Pour the mix in the cold mold, cover and take it to the freeze again for two hours.
You can form the freezing cheese balls with a spoon and serve in glasses.
Optional: You can sprinkle cinnamon.
What is a gelatin sheet?
Clara,
This is the photo.
Maybe it’s not well translated. It’s unflavoured gelatin.
Greetings!
I’ve never seen gelatin in sheets. Can I substitute some amount of powdered gelatin? Thanks
Kelsey,
Yes, if it doesn’t have any taste, I think.
Good luck!
No powdered gelatin and gelatin sheets are not the same. Gelatin sheets are used mostly in icre creams to help increase its volumen and also to keep the ice cream have better thickness rather than being soluble.
Gelatin sheets are found in most restaurant depots, and few market stores. Even online, have you tried ebay?
-Good luck!