Vanilla and Hazelnut Nice Cream

TÜRKÇE İÇİN TIKLAYIN
PER ITALIANO

Hello,

It is really hot outside, isn't it? How about a big bowl of yummy Vanilla and Hazelnut Nice Cream?

You may have already heard about it, if not, you really should! Nice Cream (or N'ice Cream) is a healthy and delicious ice cream alternative which doesn't contain any refined sugar or dairy. When you blend frozen bananas, its main ingredient, together with a flavor or fruit you'd like, in a matter of seconds you make very healthy and flavorsome ice creams.

I wanted to make something basic so we've made vanilla and hazelnut-cacao flavoured nice creams today.

Once you learn tips and tricks about how to make nice cream, you will see how easy it is to create your own beautifully flavored nice creams.

Tips to make delicious Nice Creams :

1-  Our main ingredient should be frozen RIPE bananas. There are mainly two reasons for that:
     a) Bananas are the ones that make our nice cream really creamy.
     b) We don't add any sweetener, so the riper the bananas the sweeter the nice cream.

2- We can flavour our nice creams by adding some spices or powders like vanilla, cacao, cinnamon...etc.

3- If we'd like to have fruit nice creams, we can add the real thing itself. We can blend frozen ripe bananas with previously cut and frozen fruits like strawberries, blueberries, peaches, apricots, melon...etc.

4- The consistency in fruit flavoured Nice Creams may change due the type of the fruit and quantity that we use. If our nice cream is high in bananas it will be creamier. The more and the juicer fruit you use it will tend to have icier consistency.

5- You can flavour your Nice Cream with nut butters like hazelnut or peanut butter or any butter you'd like.

6- While preparing our Nice Cream time is of the essence. We need to be fast attentive so that it won't melt. We like its creamy consistency right after we blend it and we have it fresh as soon as it's done. If you'd like to eat it later or if you think it became too soft, you can put it back in the freezer to eat it later.

7- If you'd like you can serve your Nice Creams with fresh fruit cuts, raw cacao, chocolate pieces or pistachio, walnut crumbs... etc.

NOTE: Make sure your blender is compatible to process ice and frozen pieces of fruit!!

Here comes the recipe of today.

Ingredients (for 2):
400 g frozen RIPE banana slices
30 g Almond Milk (or another plant based milk)
1/4 tsp vanilla powder (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1 TBSP Hazelnut Butter
1 TBSP raw cacao powder (or unsweetened dark cacao powder)

Preparation:

Yogurt Ice Cream with Fresh Strawberries and Blueberries

TÜRKÇE İÇİN TIKLAYIN
PER ITALIANO

Hello friends,

Today we are preparing a flavorful ice cream with soy yogurt, fresh fruits, pistachios and coconut flakes.

Before going plant based, I used to make my own yogurt at home. I wanted to make also a plant based yogurt myself and tried different recipes with nuts, rice, soybeans or plant based milks. However I wasn't happy with neither taste nor the consistency. 

Among the plant based yogurt brands we've tried so far our absolute favourite is Sojade natural soy yogurt. It is delicious, tastes really yogurt-like and is also organic. Another brand we use is Sojasun natural soy yogurt. I read both Sojade and Sojasun make part of the same group, while the first one is organic the other one is not.

I live in Italy and I can find them quite easily. I don't know from which part of the world you are reading this blog, you may have different brands.

If you live in a place where soy yogurt is out of reach for you or if you can't find one that you like, it is not a big deal for this recipe, you can replace yogurt with the same amount of frozen banana.

We won't add any sweetener at all to our healthy ice cream. The most important tip I can share with you is to have some frozen RIPE bananas in your freezer. As long as you have ripe bananas you won't need use any other sweetener or thickener. No need to count calories as well ;)

I follow discounts and when bananas are discounted I buy in bulk, let them ripen and then slice and freeze them. Sometimes, mostly in summer, supermarkets want to get rid of their overripe bananas fast so they sell them at a pretty discounted price at their discount corners, so keep in mind.

Ingredients (for 2):
300 g frozen RIPE banana slices
100 g frozen soy yogurt cubes
1/4 tsp vanilla extract or pure vanilla powder
Fresh strawberry slices
Blueberries
Raw pistachios
Coconut flakes

Preparation: