Avocado Frozen Yogurt.
The fourth week of May is known as National Frozen Yogurt Week, so I thought I’d play along this time: every single recipe on my blog this week will center around the frozen-yogurt theme, starting with today’s slightly-unconventional recipe for Avocado Frozen Yogurt.
The avocado makes this frozen dessert extra creamy and super healthy. Yes, it sounds strange, but this avocado dessert might just convert even the biggest avocado hater. And hey, at least it’s not Spinach Ice Cream!
Avocado Frozen Yogurt
Adapted from Homemade Frozen Yogurt
- 1 large, ripe avocado (it should be soft)
- 2 cups plain yogurt of choice (such as Wholesoy) (440g)
- 1/2 cup milk of choice (120g)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract (2g)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- pinch pure stevia extract, or 3-4 tbsp sugar of choice (Amount will depend on the sweetness of your yogurt, and you may need more if you’re using an unsweetened yogurt. You want the non-frozen mixture to taste a little too sweet for your liking, as it is less sweet once frozen.)
Avocado frozen yogurt recipe: Scrape out the flesh of the avocado and discard the peel and pit. Blend all ingredients until completely smooth, in a blender, food processor, or Vita-Mix. If you have an ice cream maker, transfer mixture to the machine and churn according to manufacturer’s directions. My Cuisinart took just 10 minutes. Eat immediately as soft-serve, or freeze in an airtight container for a half hour if you want a firmer texture. (If you don’t have an ice cream machine, you can simply transfer the blended mixture to an airtight container, freeze, and stir every half hour for 2-3 hours. The texture won’t be quite as creamy, but it still works.)
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Question of the Day:
What flavor gets your vote for Frozen Yogurt Week?
Feel free to leave as many flavor suggestions as you can dream up. There are four large containers of yogurt in my refrigerator, just waiting to be turned into frozen yogurt. Link of the Day:
………Cookie Dough Popsicles
Can you tell the weather is getting warmer?
Can I vote for all the flavors?? I have yet to met a frozen yogurt that I didn’t LOVE. I have been eating it all winter (even with this cold AK weather) ha ha. This looks great! I haven’t tried the avocado flavor before so this may be my next endeavor. Thanks for sharing!
No matter how important losing weight is, we all love desserts. And the sweeter the better. America has a definite sweet tooth.
I can’t wait to try this recipe – sounds so refreshing and sooooo creamy! Love that you specify a method option for people who don’t have ice cream makers – that’s a great tip! I didn’t have an ice cream maker until a few years ago, and would just sadly skip over recipes like this one because I didn’t think I had the ability to make them. Oh – and I agree with Lauren about the Oatmeal Cookie flavor! My local handmade ice cream shop has that flavor, and it’s amazing!
I love froyo!..not sure how I feel about an avo flavor though. Chocolate hazelnut, french toast and good ol’ chocolate/vanilla are what I regularly go for 🙂
Can you use a liquid sweetener such as agave?
Lemon would get my vote. It reminds me of the lemon milk sherbet my mother used to make when I was a child, which I always loved. If I were to make this avocado frozen yogurt, I would have to make sure my avocado-disliking husband didn’t know what was in it, although the color would probably give it away… To me this sounds wonderful.
A few weeks back I tried to make avocado ice cream with full fat coconut milk. No matter what I did it tasted like plain avocado. I even added a ton of lime and lemon juice and sweetener (maple syrup and coconut sugar) hoping to go a bit key lime. Then it didn’t mix well in the ice cream machine so it’s too thick and chunky, not creamy. Any ideas how to salvage it?
Do this recipe but add some strawberries to it 🙂 trust me. Haha I’m also wondering if you finally found an acceptable way to eat avocado since you don’t like it!
Hallelujah, it’s National Frozen Yogurt Week!
I just tried a flavor at an ice cream shop called chocolate almond coconut chip… it had almond, coconut and choc chips mixed into a chocolate ice cream i believe. That would be really good as froyo 🙂