Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream Recipe (with video)

Creamy sweet strawberry ice cream with the slightly tart  addition of rhubarb and ginger makes for a most refreshing ice cream recipe treat! 

Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream Recipe
Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream Recipe

Strawberry Ice Cream

Strawberry ice cream, for me, is the first announcement that the lazy days of summer on their way.

Strawberries are the first fruit to uncover, what was once sleeping fields of winter, with their majestic ruby red and perfectly white flowers. 

Strawberry Farms Sleeping In Winter
Strawberry Farms Sleeping In Winter

While there are so many luscious ways to incorporate strawberries into both sweet and savory dishes, ice cream is the first dessert I want from these juicy fruits after a long winter. 

And so, I am pleased to share my strawberry rhubarb ice cream recipe with you, and a few other strawberry favorites as well.

Other Favorite Strawberry Recipes

Sure, when strawberry season arrives, after a long winter’s sleep, I usually go a little overboard on strawberry recipes.

An Easy Strawberry ‘Non-Dairy’ Custard Recipe For Mini Tarts that could easily incorporate a rhubarb flavor into the coconut custard.

Homemade tart shells are easy to make, though even easier you can opt to use a puff pastry from your grocery store and have this recipe ready in no time.

What could be better than a Strawberry Tart made with a creamy coconut custard filling and brushed with a little strawberry jam on top!

For sure if you love a strawberry ice cream recipe another easy homemade strawberry favorite is a strawberry vinaigrette.

When simmering the strawberries, simply toss in a few finely chopped rhubarb stalks for the added tart flavor they marry so well with sweet strawberries.

Summertime Strawberry Vinaigrette Recipe Which Easily Incorporates Rhubarb

Rhubarb

What a strange herb, yes herb! Rhubarb is neither a fruit or a vegetable, yet when cooked with a few other ingredients, it makes a tangy addition to otherwise sweet desserts. 

Rhubarb
Rhubarb

Although in ancient times Rhubarb passed through the ports of Aleppo and Smyrna for the usage of medicine by the Greeks and Turks, it was the Brits that discovered this herb to have just the right tartness to enhance the baking of sweets.

Strawberries And Rhubarb

While the British are more inclined to marry rhubarb with apples, we Americans found both the color and flavor of strawberries to be an equally delightful marriage in desserts. 

The rhubarb puree recipe I’ve created for this ice cream adds just the right amount of tang to what can often be too sweet an ice cream. 

Farm Fresh Strawberries
Farm Fresh Strawberries

Strawberry Ice Cream Desserts

While a big ole scoop of strawberry ice cream is certainly a treat in itself, imagine layering a baked shortcake, with a scoop of strawberry rhubarb ice cream, and topping it with a dollop of finely sliced strawberries! 

Strawberry rhubarb ice cream shortcakes are a decadent dessert to bring in spring’s delicious bounty.

Strawberry Shortcakes With Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream
Strawberry Shortcakes With Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream

Ice Cream

Making ice cream in the old days was quite a laborious job but today with the purchase of an electric ice cream maker, ice cream is made in under 30-minutes.

The possibilities are endless as to what we can concoct to make a delicious ice cream. These electric machines are also fantastic for making sorbets. 

Not all ice cream recipes need egg yolks in them to make for a creamy ice cream. Afterall ice cream should used to be made only with ‘cream’.

And so, for this recipe, that is exactly what I have done. Once the flavorful rhubarb puree is simmered into a syrup and cooled, it is added to the cream and fresh strawberries and churned into a lovely sweet and slightly tart ice cream.

Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream Dairy Substitute 

Not everyone can eat dairy and that’s okay. Simply swap out the heavy cream in this strawberry rhubarb ice cream recipe for full fat coconut milk.

I promise it will be just as luscious and perhaps a little extra twist of tropical flavor. 

Spring's First Fruits - Strawberries
Spring’s First Fruits – Strawberries

More Ice Cream Recipes To Love

Once I bought an ice cream machine, that churned ice cream in 20-minutes, I began making the best unusual ice cream recipes.

Let’s not forget that an ice cream maker makes delicious sorbets as well, so here you go!

  • Fresh Fennel Pollen Ice Cream – from both fennel flowers and its pollen including honey from the bees with a splash of fennel flavor liquor. 
  • Toast Ice Cream – Tea Cakes and Toast Ice Cream a whimsical creation of a bergamot tea cake with hot toddy icing, toast ice cream and toast dust. Tea time anyone!
  • Beetroot Ice Cream – naturally sweet and earthy beetroots, cooked and pureed, whirled into a creamy, sweet, rich unusual Ice Cream.
  • Sweet Corn Ice Cream – inspired by sweet, sun ripened corn fresh from the cob, simmered, pureed and churned as nature intended.
    

So Many Unique Ice Cream Recipes
So Many Unique Ice Cream Recipes

Ingredients Needed

  • Rhubarb
  • Heavy cream – or full fat coconut milk
  • Strawberries
  • Sugar
  • Lime
  • Ginger
  • Water

Equipment Needed

Homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream
Homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream
Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream

Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream Recipe

Sweet strawberries, tart rhubarb, frozen into a creamy sweet and tart ice cream.
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Course: Ice Cream
Cuisine: American Fusion
Keyword: Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
churn: 20 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes
Servings: 4 servings

Equipment

  • electric ice cream maker
  • Saucepan

Ingredients

  • Rhubarb Puree
  • 1 cup Rhubarb chopped
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Lime juice
  • 1 tsp Fresh ginger finely chopped
  • 1/2 cup Water
  • Ice Cream
  • 2 cups Heavy cream
  • 1 cup Strawberries chopped
  • 1/2 cup Sugar

Instructions

  • Rhubarb Puree – Place the Rhubarb puree ingredients into a saucepan, bring to a boil, lower, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
    Cool. Puree in a food processor or blender. Rhubarb puree is ready to add to the strawberry ice cream ingredients.
  • Ice Cream – In a large bowl, mix strawberries and sugar, and sit for 15-minutes allowing strawberry juices to be released.
    With a fork, mask half of the strawberries and leave the rest for texture in the ice cream.
    Add the rhubarb puree and heavy cream. Mix well.
  • Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker (following the instructions of your machine). Churning until thick and frozen, times may differ depending on the machine, however 20-minutes is usually about enough to produce a creamy and frozen ice cream.
  • Ice cream is now ready to eat, or freeze.

Video

Notes

  • Ice cream is often too frozen to serve easily straight from the freezer, so I scoop ice cream into individual mounds on a parchment paper lined baking sheet or muffin tins, pop into the freezer for an hour, then transfer the scoops to an airtight container. Serving is easy. 
Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream

 

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