
Ingredients
Method
- Cut your dates in half and place in a small bowl. Cover with 1/2 cup water and set aside.
- In a food processor, fine chop the pumpkin meat 1 cup at a time with about 3 TBSP water. Place on the solid tray of your dehydrator. Spread out into a thin layer. Dehydrate for 3 hours, stir after 1 hour.
- In a small sauce pan on low heat, bring the coconut milk to 100 degrees F (use a calibrated thermometer), stir often. Now continue to reduce the coconut milk down to 1 3/4 cup (about 1 1/2 hours) and remove from the heat and set aside.
- Take all the pits out of the dates, reserve the dates and liquid, discard the pits.
- In your blender add the prepared pumpkin meat, reduced coconut milk, soaked dates and soaking liquid, pink salt, coconut oil and RAWMIO spread- blend until creamy and smooth on high.
- Place this mixture in your ice cream maker and complete its cycle.
- Use a small (it looks like 1/2 the size of a regular traditional scoop) ice cream scoop and scoop out 24 scoops of ice cream. Lay on a flat tray on parchment paper and freeze for 2 hours.
- Remove from the tray and place in a sealed container back in the freezer and freeze overnight. Before you are ready to serve, allow to rest at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- In a small sauce pan on low heat, bring the coconut milk to 100 degrees F(use a calibrated thermometer), stir often.
- Now continue to reduce the coconut milk down to 1/2 cup (about 1 hour) and remove from the heat and set aside.
- In your blender, add the cashews, fine chop on high then add the coconut milk and blend on high for 1 minute until smooth.
- Now add in the warmed RAWMIO spread and blend on high for 1 minute. You can also buy a hazelnut sauce if you like.
- In a food processor, fine grind the coconut and cashews and add the water and blend well, this is your topping.
- Wash and dry the gourds and use a small sharp knife and cut around the stem part out to about 1 inch from the edge at a slight angle go in towards the stem. Remove the top and reserve.
- Use a small spoon and remove the seeds and web inside the gourd. Gently scrape the inside of the gourd to clean out any remaining webbing or seeds. Rinse well and dry.
- Place each cleaned gourd and its top on a serving plate.
- Now in each stack 2 scoops of ice cream inside the gourd on top of each other. Evenly drizzle the sauce on each, evenly sprinkle the topping on each and serve. ENJOY!!