Red Dragon Fruit Popsicle
Key tips for making delicious homemade popsicles: 1. To achieve a smooth texture comparable to store-bought popsicles, use cornstarch or potato starch for thickening. Popsicles thickened with cornstarch have low stickiness and poor transparency, while those thickened with potato starch have high stickiness and high transparency. 2. If you want to make popsicles with a rich milky flavor, fresh milk is not concentrated enough, so it is best to use heavy cream or milk powder. 3. If you want to make beautiful, delicious fruit-flavored popsicles, do not cook the fruit ingredients for too long. Turn to low heat immediately after the pot boils, and turn off the heat right after the thickened mixture comes to a boil. Overcooking will negatively impact the color and flavor of the fruit popsicles. 4. Since the sweetness of popsicles decreases after freezing, you should add an appropriate amount of extra fine sugar when making homemade popsicles. 5. To easily unmold frozen popsicles, soak the entire popsicle mold in cold water for about 1 minute. Take care not to let the water level rise above the popsicle mold.
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Vibrant, refreshing, and packed with the natural sweetness of red dragon fruit, this homemade popsicle is a perfect cool-down treat for warm days, with a striking pink color and smooth texture that makes it a fun, crowd-pleasing dessert for all ages.
Ingredients
Instructions
Step 1
Peel the red dragon fruit, cut it into small cubes, place them in a container, and add 400 grams of water.
Step 2
Use a food processor to blend the diced red dragon fruit into a smooth puree.
Step 3
Pour the prepared red dragon fruit juice into a cooking pot.
Step 4
Add fine granulated sugar.
Step 5
Bring the red dragon fruit juice to a boil, then reduce to low heat and add the pre-mixed potato starch slurry to thicken the mixture. (The potato starch slurry is made by mixing 10 grams of potato starch with 50 grams of water.)
Step 6
Turn off the heat once the mixture comes to a boil again.
Step 7
Let the cooked red dragon fruit juice cool completely, then pour it into popsicle molds and place them in the freezer to freeze for 24 hours.