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Vanilla Ice Cream with Peach-Basil Topping

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A strange-but-wonderful topping for whatever flavor ice cream you’d like. Try it! Fresh and green and wonderful…and ridiculously easy!

Ingredients

  • 2 whole Peaches, Pitted And Chopped
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 2 cups Water
  • 18 whole Basil Leaves, Washed
  • Vanilla Or Strawberry Ice Cream

Preparation

Place chopped peaches in a bowl. Set aside.

In a saucepan, combine sugar and water. Stir to combine. Turn on heat to medium-high and boil for 3 to 5 minutes, until syrup is thicker but not yet starting to turn color. Remove from heat and allow to cool for a couple of minutes.

Pour warm syrup in a blender. Throw in basil leaves. Pulse once quickly for larger chunks of basil; blend for a few seconds for more of a green syrup. (It may look a little funky, but man, does it taste good.)

Pour basil syrup over chopped peaches. Allow to sit a few minutes, then spoon mixture over vanilla or strawberry ice cream.

(Can refrigerate sauce and use later.)

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shelleycrews on 10.6.2011

This was SOOOOO delicious! The perfect blend of fruit and herbs, PERFECT on vanilla ice cream.

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Darlene on 8.15.2011

This is absolutely heavenly! My new favorite dessert. I love basil, so I almost doubled it and pureed it. Also tried with fresh strawberries. Wonderful!

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Kelly Akin on 7.13.2011

I loved the taste of this, but I didn’t especially like the basil in pieces. Next time I would puree it thoroughly. Others in my family were not as enamoured with this as I was… the number one comment was, “this is different…”

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