Who doesnt love Ice creams?? We all do, be it taken as a dessert, as a snack, as a celebration treat, or for no reason at all, Ice creams have a special place in our tummy and our hearts 🙂 And if we can make them a healthy way, which actually makes them nutritious and healthy as well, then its a win – win 🙂 :).
Here’s how we can do that :
Recipe Particulars:
- Makes around 750 ml
- Prep time : 20 mins
- Freezing time: 3 to 4 Hours
- Recipe Credit: The recipe was taken from here to promote healthy eating. We are deeply grateful to the author for posting the same: You are helping us encourage a healthy heart :).
- Approximate Nutrition Facts: Per serving- Calories: 190, Fat: 14.o gm., Sugar: 25gm., Carbs: 17.0 gm, Protien: 7.0 gm.
Apart from the above, due to the presence of different fruits this ice-cream is rich in Vit. C, K, B-6, E.
Addition of avocado brings additional nutrients: 0.5gm poly saturated fats, 3 gm. mono saturated fats, sodium, potassium, zinc, copper, magnesium, 2.4 gm. fiber, Vitamins A, E, C. riboflavin,niacin, folates, thiamin etc. (Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet) - This is a Recipe from Jyotsna Pant’s Blog. Refer to the blog for complete recipe with Pictures, suggestions and tips.
Recipe Ingredients:
- 750 gm. Ripe Sweet Mangoes (4-5 Medium size mangoes)
- 200 gm. Ripe Bananas (2 large bananas)
- 10-12 Red sweet Strawberries
- 2 Teaspoon Corn flour
- 150 ml. Milk (1 tea cup milk)
- 50 gm. Sugar
- 1 Medium size Avacado (30 gm. approx.)(optional)
Recipe Directions:
- Wash and peel mangoes. Cut mango to small pieces and discard the seed.
- Peel and cut bananas to small pieces.
- Take corn flour in a thick bottom pan and dissolve it in 150 ml. milk.
- Cook the corn flour milk mixture on high flame with continuous and vigorous stirring for 2 min.
- The corn flour –milk mixture will become transparent. Remove from heat cover and allow it to cool.
- In a grinder-mixer take mango pieces, banana pieces, sugar and cooked mixture of corn flour- milk mixture/Avacado pulp and grind all ingredients to smooth pulp.
- Sieve the pulp through a sieve to get rid fibers if mangoes.
- Add cream to the sieved pulp.
- Wash the strawberries and remove the green calyx and stalk.
- Cut the cleaned strawberries to small pieces.
- In a glass container / Ice-cream mold pour half of the creamy-fruity pulp.
- Sprinkle half of the pieces of strawberry pieces and then pour the remaining creamy-fruity pulp.
- Sprinkle the remaining strawberry pieces on the top of the creamy-fruity pulp.
- Cover with the lid and keep in freezer at a temperature of -41o F to -47o F, for 3 to 4 hours for ice-cream to set.
- Gently shake the container with creamy-fruity pulp for ice-cream one or twice. Then allow it to solidify without disturbing.
