Ginger Milk Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Ingredients:

• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1 cup milk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 tablespoon ground ginger
• 1 cup milk chocolate chopped (or milk chocolate chips)
• 1/2 cup crystalized  ginger chopping into small pieces

Directions:

• Heat cream, milk, sugar and ground ginger in a heavy bottomed sauce pan stirring until sugar is dissolved.
• Whisk the egg yolks together in a heat proof bowl
• Remove cream sugar from heat just before mixture boils.
• Slowly add the cream mixture to the egg yolks whisking to temper.
• Pour mixture back into the pan and reheat under low heat until it thickens a bit.
• Strain mixture into  a heat proof bowl and refrigerate for several hours or overnight (until mixture has chilled)
• Once chilled, remove from fridge, strain once more and place in an ice cream maker and process according to manufacturers directions.
• Once mixture is of soft serve consistency, add chocolate and ginger pieces.
• Transfer to a container and place in freezer until the ice cream hardens.