
Miso Caramel
Deep amber caramel with white miso in place of salt: sweet, buttery and savory at once, with a long, rounded umami finish.
- Hands-on
- 20 min
- Cooling
- 1 h
- Freeze
- 24 h
- Program
- Ice Cream
- Makes
- 4 servings6 servings
Good forFallWild flavors
Nutrition
Per 100 g, estimatedPer serving (¼ of a 473 ml16 oz tubpint, about 122 g), estimated
Whole tubpint: 1024 kcal, 15 g protein1536 kcal, 23 g protein (709 ml24 oz). Contains: Milk, Soy.
Ingredients
5 ingredientsTap an ingredient when it is in the bowl
453 of 473 ml679 of 709 ml
In the tubpintScale reads
Put the empty tubpint (or your pan) on the kitchen scale and press zero. Add each ingredient until the scale shows the number on the right.
Mix everything in one big bowl, then divide it evenly between 2 tubspints.
Steps
- Warm 160 ml whipping cream160 ml whipping cream⅔ cup heavy cream240 ml whipping cream240 ml whipping cream1 cup heavy cream in the microwave for 30 seconds. Keep it next to the stove.
- Melt 75 g caster or granulated sugar90 ml caster or granulated sugar¼ cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar115 g caster or granulated sugar130 ml caster or granulated sugar½ cup + 1 tbsp granulated sugar in a saucepan over medium heat, swirling, until deep amber, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Off the heat, carefully whisk in the warm cream. It will bubble up hard.
- Whisk in 220 ml whole milk220 ml whole milk¾ cup + 3 tbsp whole milk330 ml whole milk330 ml whole milk1⅓ cups whole milk over low heat until any hard caramel dissolves. Take the pan off the heat.
- In a small bowl, whisk 1½ tbsp white miso paste1½ tbsp white miso paste1½ tbsp white miso paste2 tbsp white miso paste2 tbsp white miso paste2 tbsp white miso paste with a few spoonfuls of the warm caramel until smooth. Whisk it back into the pan with ½ tsp pure vanilla extract½ tsp pure vanilla extract½ tsp vanilla extract¾ tsp pure vanilla extract¾ tsp pure vanilla extract¾ tsp vanilla extract.
- Pour into the tubpint, cool to room temperature, then put the lid on.
- Once it is completely cool, freeze the tubpint on a level shelf for 24 hours.
- Take the lid off, set the tubpint in the outer bowl and lock it into the machine. Run Ice Cream.
- If it looks crumbly or powdery, add 15 ml whole milk1 tbsp whole milk1 tbsp whole milk25 ml whole milk1½ tbsp whole milk1½ tbsp whole milk and run Re-spin.
To serve: Drizzle with caramel sauce and finish with a few flakes of sea salt.
My notes
Tips
- Use white (shiro) miso, sold in Asian grocery stores and many supermarkets. Yellow miso works too. Red or brown miso is much saltier and stronger, so use half as much.
- Miso brands vary in saltiness. Taste the warm base: it should taste like salted caramel, only deeper. For more umami, whisk in another 1 to 2 tsp miso.
- Hot caramel burns badly. Use a deep pan, pour the cream in slowly and keep your hands and face back while it bubbles.
Why it works
Caramelizing breaks some of the sugar into glucose and fructose, which keep the tubpint soft and scoopable. Miso brings salt plus glutamates, the savory umami taste, so the caramel tastes deeper and less sweet.
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