Make lemon ice cream yourself: the ingredients
- Juice of 3 lemons (approx. 150 ml)
- 100 g sugar (or powdered sugar)
- 400 g of yogurt
- 3 egg whites
Lemon ice cream: step-by-step preparation
- For the lemon ice cream, first cut the lemons in half and squeeze them out.
- Put the lemon juice with the yoghurt and half of the sugar in a bowl and beat until creamy. Chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
- Separate the eggs and beat the remaining sugar with the egg whites until stiff.
- Fold the egg whites under the yoghurt mixture and add the lemon ice cream to the ice cream maker.
Prepare lemon ice cream without an ice cream maker
Alternatively, you can freeze the lemon ice cream in the freezer. For that you should Allow at least 5 hours and stir the ice cream every half hour to prevent ice crystals from forming. It is best to use a large bowl and a whisk or a large spoon for this. The constant stirring is time consuming, but your efforts will be rewarded with creamy lemon ice cream!
So you can refine your lemon ice cream
Lemon and mint are an unbeatable combination! You can just a handful of mint leaves take it, chop it finely and finally stir it into the ice cream mass. Mint is also suitable as a pretty decoration on the ice cream balls.
Instead of yogurt, you can also use your lemon ice cream with buttermilk and crème fraîche produce. You can find the right recipe here: buttermilk-lemon ice cream.
Those who like it even more summery can Add strawberries to the ice cream. Let yourself be inspired by our recipes for the strawberry-lemon sundae and lemon ice cream with strawberries!
With us you will find further instructions if you want to make ice cream yourself, for example for banana ice cream, pistachio ice cream or the ice cream trend Rolled Ice Cream. We also explain how you can make milk ice cream yourself and how to make water ice cream yourself.