Thursday, March 29, 2012

Banana Coconut milk Ice cream with honey as sweetener

 

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This ice cream was my first attempt in trying to make an ice cream with coconut milk. I made it almost two years back and was  lying in my drafts for a long time. I made this before I got my ice cream maker so had to blend the coconut milk and banana mixture to prevent crystallizing and to get a nice texture. But the only draw back was it tastes so yummy, I couldn’t resist myself in having few spoons of this mixture each time I blended it.  Very easy to make and tastes absolutely superb. But using the ice cream maker definitely makes a huge difference in the texture of the ice cream. So come summer, when you try all different treats, make sure to try this easy one and let me know how you liked it.

Preparation Time – 15 Minutes

Cooking Time – 10 Minutes

Serves – 4

Ingredients

Coconut milk – 2 Cups

Agar agar powder – 2 Tsp

Honey – 1/4 Cup

Banana – 3 small to medium sized

Vanilla extract – 1 Tsp

Hot  water – 1/4 Cup

Method

1)  Place the agar agar powder in hot water and let this sit for some time. Now heat this mixture and stir it till it dissolves. Remove from heat and set this aside.

2) In a high speed blender pour the coconut milk, banana slices, vanilla extract, honey and agar agar mixture and blend till smooth.

3) Pour the mixture in a container and place it in the freezer. After 2 hours remove the mixture and blend it till smooth and put it back in the freezer once again. Repeat this 2-3 more times and leave it to freeze over night.

4) Remove from the freezer and let this sit in room temperature for 5-10 minutes on a hot day and serve with some toasted nuts.

Recipe adapted from healthycookingcoach.com

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Events

This goes to Cook Eat Delicious Desserts – Refined Sugar & flour free whole some desserts an event hosted by me and started by Raven

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26 comments:

Swathi Iyer said...

Sadhana, I love this ice cream. Last week I bought coconut ice cream with agar ave nectar as sweetener from Whole foods, smooth rich and creamy I love it after first bite. sure this one is to great. By the way I linked my recipe to your event.

Kalyani said...

wow lovely and yummy icecream .....

faseela said...

wow...that is so innovative ice cream...yummy...

Srimathi said...

I have just got an ice cream maker and have not made ice creams. We are waiting for summer. The ice cream looks delicious. In fact so delicious is a brand that is made with coconut milk and is great for kids with dairy allergy.

Kanan said...

my mouth is watering now. so delicious

Reshmi said...

this looks absolutely yummy... would love to grab it..
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maha said...

awesome..it luks very fresh n yummy too..loved it....:-)
Maha

Indulge said...

OMG.. Lovely color and lovely ice cream you have got here. Reminds me of the yummy tender coconut ice cream we get in Naturals in Mumbai.
Love Ash.

Vanamala Hebbar said...

Lovely pics...yummy ice cream mmmmmmm

Julie said...

Very delicious ice cream..banana acts as a great binder & honey as sweetener makes it naturally sweet,great recipe!!
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Vidhya said...

Icecream looks Yummylicious.

Asmita said...

This looks absolutely amazing! I would love to try this recipe out soon. Going to soon start the ice cream machine. It's getting very hot here in Fl.
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Daksha said...

Looks yummmmmmmm and lovely presentation.

Rasi said...

i love coconut ice-cream.. so i know how tempting this must be.. love the fact that u come up with such healthy sinful..oops! not sinful anymore stuff :)..

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Priti said...

Wonderful combo ..must be awesome ..looks so gud

Vimitha Anand said...

Lovely flavorful ice cream variety dear.

Kalpana Sareesh said...

soso delicious looking ice cream..

radha said...

I could dig into that right now. Yummy!

Deeps @ Naughty Curry said...

coconut milk, banana & honey, i wud have never thought of putting them together into an icecream but this looks delecious!

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Kaveri Venkatesh said...

Lovely ice cream..Lovely combo of ingredients..would love to give it a try

Jay said...

lipsmacking..;P

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Lavanya T R said...

Looks really yum. loved the combos. glad to follow u. do visit my blog when you get time.
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Kanchan said...

I overall love the coconut ice cream, yours too looks wonderful.

Rafeeda said...

this looks so yummy.... i'm bookmarking this for trial... cud u please let me know how much agar agar i've to use, as i don't have the powder, i've it in the thread form??? thank u...

Archana said...

Wow this is possible? How delicious. Looks sooooooo yummy.

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