Here's what I made up the other day in an effort
to avoid work... You need to choose a day you are pottering about at
home - there's a lot of tooing and froing to the freezer and the real
beauty of this little experiment is that there's extra bunce.
You have to beat the mixture hard and often - so a) you can take out your frustrations on it while creating a really delicious pud and b) you'll use a few calories up while you make it.
You have to beat the mixture hard and often - so a) you can take out your frustrations on it while creating a really delicious pud and b) you'll use a few calories up while you make it.
No, no! No need to thank me. I live to please.
Read on for the recipe
Quick, Quick! Rush out and get...
0% Fat Greek Yoghurt (I used a small tub + 1/2 tub of full fat because that's what I had in the fridge)
Frozen berries
Mini meringues
You also need:
- A biggish tub lets say about twice the volume of the yog you use. (I have a few old Yoo Moo tubs, I luvs it I do).
- A hand whizzer.
- Wooden spoon & a metal spoon.
- Scrape the yoghurt into your tub and put it straight into the freezer. You'll be getting it out a few times to beat the ice crystals by hand, and with the whizzer when you get a bit tired and it gets soft enough to use it. You can put it in the food processor each time but this is major faff.
- Set aside a big handful of your frozen berries - I like piggy portions. Let these defrost. Meanwhile go out to play for an hour. Do some gardening maybe? Think of the pro points.
- After about an hour take the tub out and beat, mash and bash the freezing yoghurt, don't worry about it softening up again - you're aim is to make the yogurty goodness smooth. Stick it back in the freezer.
- Repeat the process a couple of times and before it all gets too freezy to be workable add the berries and whizz and beat them into the mixture.
- The trick is here to do this as often as you can be bothered so the ice crystals are bashed smooth.The more you take it out and beat it - the better the finished desert will be.
- For the last mash-up crumble in some meringues - I used 3 mini bought ones, because that's what I had in the cupboard - chaque as sont gout, innit?
Have a go - I'm thinking you'd also make a fancy treat if you used mango, or pineapple.
Oh one thing to note - you might have to warm your spoon in a cup of hot water to get scoopy, it does set quite hard.
UPDATE: You will need to pop it on the side for a little while so it softens up enough to scoop out of the tub - it being home madey - there isn't anything in it to prevent the freezy really taking control - and it goes solid! I think you could use vodka or gin which would make it boozy and non-diety but it might keep the mix a bit softer?
If I had a proper scoopytool my pud would look eggsactly like the pic, which I nicked - terrrue x
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