Give a healthy kick start to your kid’s ice-cream cravings with these easy, colorful, and tasty ice creams.
Summers have finally knocked on our doors and with every passing day, temperatures are rising rapidly. Definitely, ice-creams are the most tempting of all the foods in summers and many of us have already started longing for this sweet and delicious delicacy!
The kids are very fond of ice creams and every family’s fridge is soon going to be filled with many types of market-brought ice-creams. Although the market is flooded with thousands of varieties of ice creams those ice creams have plenty of chemicals in them like refined sugars, trans-fatty oils, artificial flavors, emulsifiers, stabilizers, and preservatives. Such chemicals though not harmful in small quantities can pose serious health issues if taken in excess. Given that ice cream is heavily consumed in summers (because it is tasty and loved by every age group), it is hard to limit its intake once we start gulping it! Also, some ice cream brands have hiked the prices significantly due to the elevation in the price of the key ingredient of ice creams- milk. Hence, the idea of eating healthy homemade ice cream seems much more reasonable and pocket friendly! As you make this healthy choice of making homemade ice cream, you will also be able to teach your kids to make colorful popsicles and mouthwatering ice-creams!
Here in this article, I will share with you 5 easy and guilt-free ice-cream recipes to try this summer. And all of them can be made with the ingredients already present in your kitchen. So let’s get started!
1. The Banana ice-cream
Banana ice cream is by far the simplest ice cream to make. The healthiest of all, this ice cream is very creamy and good to taste!
Ingredients:
- 4 ripened bananas (not overly ripened)
- Shredded almonds and cashews
- Honey(if you need an extra sweet taste)
- Four tablespoon milk.
Recipe: Peel the bananas and cut them into small pieces. Now cover a tray with butter paper and place the banana pieces on the tray. Freeze them for 5-7 hours. Now take them out and put them in the grinder. Add 4 tablespoons milk and honey (as desirable). Grind it. Take out and add the dry fruits. Plate it nicely!
2. Colorful Fruit juice popsicles
Trust me your kids will love these colorful popsicles.
Ingredients:
- Orange juice: For orange popsicle
- Mango juice/ Pineapple juice: For yellow popsicle
- Watermelon juice: For red popsicle
- Kiwi juice: For green popsicle
- 1 popsicle maker
- Mishri powder to add sweetness
Recipe: Simply take out fruit juices of your desirable fruits and add mishri powder to them. Stir well. Now empty the juice into a popsicle stand. Freeze. Your colorful popsicles are ready. The best part is that your kids can eat as many as they wish without any concern!
3. Favorite of all- Chocolate ice-cream
Chocolate ice cream is definitely every kid’s favorite. For making delicious chocolate ice cream at home follow this recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 glass full fat milk
- 3 tablespoon thick cream
- 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 teaspoon mishri powder
Recipe: Mix all the ingredients well. Pour the liquid in an airtight ziplock bag. Take another bigger zip lock bag and fill it with ice cubes and add salt to it. Now put the ice-cream mixture containing the zip bag in it. Fill the bigger zip bag with more ice. Cover the zip bag with a cloth and start shaking it. After shaking for 10 minutes your chocolate ice cream is ready to serve!
4. Creamy mango ice-cream
Mangos are without a doubt the iconic fruits of summers. A lot of varieties of mangoes come in abundance in the summer season, so different types of mango ice-creams can be enjoyed for the whole summer season!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Freshly peeled and diced mangoes
- Half glass Full cream milk
- 4 tablespoons mishri powder
Recipe: Pour all the ingredients into the grinder and grind well. Now follow the same steps of making the ice cream in a zip lock bag as we did above in chocolate ice cream. The specialty of mango ice cream is that every time you can make unique mango ice cream by choosing different varieties of mangoes like Kesar, badam, Alfonzo, etc.
5. Indian Malai Kulfi
The Indian Malai Kulfi is especially enjoyed by the older generation. The kids too will love to surprise their grandparents with this sweet surprise!
Ingredients:
- 500 ml full fat milk
- Cardamom powder(ilaichi)
- 4 tablespoon Mishri
- Kesar
- Crushed almonds and cashews
Recipe: Take the milk and let it boil till it is reduced to half. Now add Mishri, Kesar, and cardamom powder. Mix well. When the mixture reaches room temperature fill it in the popsicle maker. Freeze for 5-6 hours. Your healthy Malai Kulfi is ready.
All the five recipes shared by us are completely healthy and guilt-free. These are so easy that anyone can try them out. How much you liked our recipes please let us know in the comments section below. Also tell us what recipes you would like to see next in our food section. Thanks for reading!
