I love taro. It's my favorite bubble tea flavor, it's delicious as fries, chips, in soups, etc. etc. There aren't many foods that can be delicious sweet OR savory, but taro is one of the ultimate.
A while back I made taro "ice cream", perhaps more accurately called taro cream. I bought a few fresh taro roots from the local grocery store, peeled and steamed them, and then mashed it up with some honey. It's a great simple dish, like purple mashed sweet potatoes. Anyway, I had so much of it that I decided to use a portion to make ice cream. Since it already had water (from the steam) and sweetener, I thought it would be okay if I just mixed it with heavy cream and poured it into the ice cream machine. Well, it's got the taro flavor alright, but it tastes like how it sounds.. frozen heavy cream with mashed taro bits mixed in. Not so fun to eat by the spoonful.
Now, fast forward to my present-day popsicle mode, and I figured I could do some experimenting with my taro cream before I toss it. I'm going to guess the proportions of ingredients I used below, so that you don't have to go through the taro-torturing that I did.
Materials:
1 peeled and steamed taro, mashed
1 tbsp honey/sugar, or to taste
1/4 c heavy whipping cream
1/2 c milk
Methods:
Blend and pour!
Result:
Appearance: Pretty white and creamy looking, but there was a weird separation going on at the top of the popsicle; see Flavor below
Texture: Pretty great, and Korean ice pop-like
Flavor: It was pretty spot on in the mix of taro and creaminess. However, for some reason in my version most of the fat seems to have sunk to the bottom, meaning it was at the top of my popsicle. There was a line of separation and the top tasted creamier. Funnily enough, the taro bits that I didn't blend well floated, meaning that they collected at the bottom of the popsicle. Rather counter-intuitive.
Awesome. Make this. All the time.
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