Banana ice cream (lower carb)

[mific]

I made this recently. It isn't keto but it's lower carb than regular ice cream, and doesn't cause gaseous eruptions like keto ice creams tend to, as they're made with high doses of "fake sugar" sweeteners that mess with your gut.

serves 2-4, depending how much they like ice cream and whether it's on its own as a dessert. If making a larger amount, do it in two lots, as it's hard work for your food processor.

Ingredients:
4 frozen bananas, cut into small pieces (~1" long, or else your food processor has to work too hard - mine isn't very powerful)
4 tablespoons cream or coconut cream or plant/nut milk
2 Tbsp maple syrup, honey, or low carb maple syrup, or 2 Tbsp of powdered erythritol or any type of allulose (or sweetener of your choice)
2 pinches salt

Directions:
Peel and cut up ripe bananas (skins should be going black), freeze the bits on a tray then put them in a bag in freezer to keep, or make the ice cream immediately.
Put the frozen banana bits into a food processor or blender with the cream, salt, and sweetener, and blend until the bananas have a smooth creamy consistency (just like ice cream). Will have to push the chunks down a few times and it takes a little while. Put into a container in freezer. If eaten straight away it's like soft serve ice cream, and it firms up after a while in freezer but doesn't get too ice crystally.

Next time I may try it with ¼ cup of keto chocolate chips, melted a little in the microwave, and swirled through. Should be like a banana split!
Will keep for three months in the freezer. (Ha, as if. It's soooo delicious!)

Modified a little from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxVSBIEJng (Note that the presenter mentions weight loss and health)

Other flavour additions are: frozen mango chunks, passionfruit or raspberry puree with the pips strained out, and with extra chocolate chips or some cocoa it'd be mostly choc flavoured. Etc. etc. But you still need the banana base with them all, for the texture.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

My, that looks outstanding. runpunkrun and I are still cycling through the So Delicious line in search of frozen pleasure. Sadly, I can't do bananas.

https://spoonuniversity.com/recipe/the-best-homemade-vegan-ice-cream-if-you-hate-bananas Claims you can do the same thing with frozen mango bits, but I'm dubious.

[spikedluv]

Have you tried the Oatly brand of dairy-free ice cream? I thought it was creamier and tastier than So Delicious.

OATLY is the best

[jesse_the_k]

...... especially when it's half vanilla and half coffee.

But I'm willing to try a lot of other ones just in case I've missed something better

Re: OATLY is the best

[spikedluv]

Hahaha, yes! The coffee was my favorite. Followed by the raspberry swirl, I think.

I was DF for a year because of issues, but have discovered that my actual problem is gallbladder and DF stuff has just as much fat (if not more) than regular dairy, so I'm on low-fat stuff now. But Oatly was definitely my go-to after having tried everything I could find locally (within a 50 mi radius of my home in the boonies of upstate NY).

[spikedluv]

This sounds good! Almost like a smoothie, which I love. I would definitely try it with other fruit added in because that sounds heavenly. Do you think it would work with non-cream milk (like 1%)?

[mific]

Yes it definitely would work with low fat milk - most of the creaminess is from the bananas. With more milk/cream it'd be a smoothie, but with very little milk it's definitely ice cream. :)