Cremolata Recipe?

Several Italian pastry shops in the New York area serve Italian ices in the summertime, including a flavor called "cremolata." This seems to be a vanilla/cream flavored ice with bits of toasted almond and it's delicious. I'd love to make this at home, but when I do a search for cremolata it seems to be a general term for Italian ices. Does anyone have a recipe for cremolata flavored cremolata? I would be eternally grateful.

[mbfant]

The gremolata served with ossobuco is also known as cremolata. Cremolato is an absolutely delicious icecream-like dish made of fruit. The adjective cremolato/a means creamy and anything given a creamy aspect or texture by any means can use it. Sometimes gelaterie use "le cremolate" to indicate the chocolate-hazelnut-pistachio, etc., flavors as opposed to the group of fruit flavors, but they sometimes also speak of the cremolate di frutta. In short it is a very generic word that can be applied to a number of treatments of gelato and gelato-like concoctions. The one thing is seems never to be in Italy is a specific flavor. What you describe would probably be called "mandorla" or "crema alle mandorle", or at least that is where I would start looking for a recipe. Or look for recipes for "crema" and add some almonds.

My favorite is the cremolata at Rocco's, on Bleecker Street.

They are so nice in there -- if you can't find a recipe elsewhere, maybe they'll share theirs with you.

[oswissmiss]

This was where I first had cremolata, it was amazing! I found out recently that Rocco's has
closed! :( I really need to find a recipe that recreates it. Hopefully someone will come through with one!

[Savour]

So sad! It used to be a fixture when I lived in NYC (great cannoli) and I was hoping to hit it when I visit this summer and get some of that ice! (I'm the original poster).

[Up With Olives]

I was by there recently and it was open. http://pasticceriarocco.com/

There's "gremolata" which is a paste of finely ground lemon peel or orange peel (used to flavor Osso Buco Milanese.

Yeah, not the same thing. But thanks.

Especially since it's not just lemon zest but also minced garlic and parsley. Hmm, interesting...