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Fennel pollen

Jill Dupleix
Jill Dupleix

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Ingredients

Fennel pollen ice-cream with pineapple

  • 200g castor sugar

  • 300ml water

  • 1 tsp fennel pollen (for stockists see here)

  • 250g mascarpone, chilled

  • 250g natural yoghurt

  • 200g fresh pineapple, crushed

  • 1 tbsp dill sprigs


  • Lemon fennel crunch

  • 1 tbsp demerara sugar

  • good pinch of fennel pollen

  • 1 tsp finely grated lemon zest

Method

  1. 1. Combine the sugar and water in a pan and bring to the boil, stirring. Continue to boil for 3 minutes. Remove from the heat, add 1 tsp fennel pollen and set aside to infuse, then cool, strain and chill.

    2. Whisk the mascarpone, yoghurt and fennel syrup together and churn in an ice-cream maker until frozen (or freeze in a shallow container, stirring to break up the crystals every hour for the first 3 hours).

    To make the crunch, mix the sugar, pollen and lemon zest together.

    To serve, spoon the crushed pineapple on to dessert plates, top with scoops of ice-cream and scatter with lemon fennel crunch and dill sprigs.

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Jill DupleixJill Dupleix is a Good Food contributor and reviewer who writes the Know-How column.

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