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One-Ingredient Banana Ice Cream
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- Total Time
- 6 hours 10 minutes
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Ingredients
- 4ripe bananas
Preparation
- Step 1
Peel the bananas, cut them in 2- to 3-inch chunks and place them in a freezer bag in the freezer for at least 6 hours. Remove and blend in a blender until smooth. Serve immediately, or freeze in an airtight container for at least 2 hours. Scoop and serve.
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Along the same lines - buy a bag of frozen mango (or pineapple) and a bag of frozen raspberries. dump into food processor, add about 1/4 cup honey, about the same amount of water. process until smooth. eat right away, or freeze. best sorbet you ever had! and the color is gorgeous!
I broke my parents blender trying to make this and now they are mad at me
You can also take the puree'd and frozen banana, make a uniform round ball with an ice cream scoop, dip into melted chocolate and roll in chopped walnuts before serving.
I agree that its easiest to just put the ripe banana(s) straight into the freezer in their peel (they can be frozen for weeks/months - they will turn black but are still fine to eat). When you're ready to use, run warm to hot water over the banana for several seconds and the peel should slide off of the banana pretty easily. The whole banana can be placed in the blender with a little milk and a couple of ice cubes for a refreshing shake also.
This is really good with a bit of rum or brown sugar bourbon.
Like others, I've been making this recipe for decades. But these directions are too hard on most blenders. Do this instead: Keep peeled bananas bagged in the freezer for weeks or months (because we save old bananas!). Then when you want a creamy desert, take out one large banana per person and leave it to PARTIALLY defrost on a plate for TWENTY minutes (no more!). Then even the weakest blender or food processor will make superbly creamy soft-serve, with or without added flavors.
I usually add some coconutmilk while blending for extra smoothness :) Beats store bought ice cream anyday!
Next time, use your own blender.
The addition of tahini and cardamom did it for me!
It also works great with frozen strawberries.
This is our new favorite dessert. I make it with 4 ingredients : 4 bananas + 1/4 cup chocolate chips + 2 tablespoons peanut butter + 1/2 - 1 cup milk. The texture is better if the bananas are frozen longer, at least overnight, though our blender doesn't handle the job very well when they are frozen so solid so I have to use the food processor. My diabetic father said this did not raise his blood sugar.
Substitute walnuts for the peanut butter and you have B&J's Chunky Monkey Ice Cream, the world's best treat. This is the only reason you need to buy a Vitamix.
Used a food processor with metal blade, and added a little bit of vanilla and a tablespoon or two of almond milk. Added chopped chocolate chips once smooth. Delicious!
Been doing this with bananas for years, minus the blender action. Bananas can be peeled or unpeeled before going into the freezer (or refrigerator, for that matter). Obviously unpeel for eating, and yes, it is a little easier to peel before freezing BUT as easy to toss in the freezer in their natural state and no freezer bag is needed. Somewhere along the line I was told freezing a banana in its peel was taboo. Naaaah.
Yes, strawberries work well, too, but we like mixing the strawberries with the bananas; adds some tartness to the sweet bananas. A real crowd pleaser, especially among those who want to avoid added sugar.
Cashew butter Cocoa Splash nondairy milk Cocoa nibs Tbsp alcohol or vanilla or both
Delicious recipe as is with bananas only and also very fun to make with variations. I peeled and cut up 5 bananas and froze them for 6 hours. Let them defrost for 15 min and then used a hand mixer. We are half plain. Other half made with dark cocoa powder and peanut butter to taste. A new favorite!
What I do: 1 frozen banana per serving. Freeze whole and unpeeled, remove from freezer about 20 minutes before making. Add to a blender with some vanilla and a pinch of salt. For more creaminess and ice cream texture, I'll add a tiny bit of heavy cream. Blend till smooth.
I used a food processor instead of a blender. Added honey and vanilla. Very yummy. Next time I would chop bananas into smaller pieces. Maybe diced a half frozen banana to add at the end to have chunks in ice cream. Adding cream or milk would help blending, but wanted dairy free.
Maybe some added coconut cream or milk would be good. I like the e idea of making balls rolled in chocolate and nuts. We gave up ice cream for a while and would freeze a banana in its skin, then split in half and put fudge sauce on top with nuts and a spray of whipped cream.
I like to add toasted coconut and lime zest, but, really, this recipe is infinitely versatile.
Add 1/4 cup milk, 1/2 tsp honey, 2 tbsp peanut butter.
I didn’t really enjoy this recipe. It tasted like creamy bananas.
I thought this was horrible. It was slimy. The only difference between ripe bananas and this "ice cream" is that it's very, very cold. No thanks!
The color wasn't as advertised and the texture was slimy. Can't recommend. I like Richard's idea: use some other fruit with some honey and water for texture.
Peel and cut bananas before freezing. Add cream of coconut, splash of vodka and cardamom before refreezing. Now a 5 star recipe.
This just tastes like frozen ripe bananas, which shouldn't have surprised me. But, it did. You need to add the other ingredients to make it worth while.
5 very ripe bananas, 1/4c of heavy cream, pinch of salt, 1/2tsp of cinnamon, 1TBS honey. My 3yr old loved it! I let the pieces freeze 5hrs then put them in the food processor. The texture was like soft serve, but I hope it freezes well too!
We just made this tonight and it turned to goop in the freezer. Definitely not the firmness it had right after blending. We still ate it (with a little chocolate drizzle), it was just bananas after all…
Awesome ice cream, tho it was tough on the blender. Oh well, we needed a new one!
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