After all the chocolate I have indulged in recently, I wanted my next recipe to be light, fruity and healthy and something so easy I didn’t need to break into a sweat to make it. And with the sun shinning it was a no brainer, I wanted a creamy on the go dessert.
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I love ice cream and ice-lollies, they are a great quick and easy desserts or cheeky afternoon treat. But I didn’t want to make anything unhealthy, I was craving sweetness but not the calories!
So I raided my fruit bowl and came up with strawberries, bananas and kiwis. Banana and strawberry make wonderful smoothies but I find kiwis don’t blend well, turning everything a sludgy brown with their seeds.
I chucked the strawberries, banana a dash of skimmed milk and lemon Greek yogurt in a blender and whizzed them all together, it would have made a great smoothie but I wanted ice-lollies 🙂
I poured the smoothie into my ice-lolly moulds and sliced up my kiwi and popped a slice in each mould. And popped them in the freezer overnight. And waited impatiently for my fruit smoothie and Greek yogurt ice lollies!
What I got the next day was a creamy, fruity dessert on a stick.
I used a fat free lemon Greek yogurt in mine as I am a huge fan of all things citrus, and I felt the lemon would give it a nice bite, which it did but this would work just as well with a natural flavoured Greek yogurt. There is no rule that you have to use fat free yogurt I just happen to like my yogurt fat free, and it does help to keep the calories down on these lovely little treats. I’m not a calorie counter by any means but it is nice now and again to be able to enjoy a guilt free treat. And I had no guilt about these at all.
Recipe:
Fruit Smoothie and Greek Yogurt Ice Lollies
Ingredients
- 8 large strawberries - chopped
- 1 large ripe banana - chopped up
- 120 grams fat free Greek lemon yogurt ((1/2 cup))
- 3 tablespoons skimmed milk
- 1 medium kiwi - sliced
Instructions
- Chop up the banana, half the strawberries and place them in your blender.
- Pour in your yogurt and add the milk. Blitz on a high speed for a couple of minutes so everything is well blended together.
- Pour the liquid into your lolly moulds.
- Add a slice of kiwi to each of you lollies.
- Then place the lids on or cover and place in your freezer, for a minimum of 4 hours, overnight if you can.
- Then enjoy.
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12/02/2015
Great post. It’s a great recipe and very simple to do. I must try it.
14/02/2015
Hi guys, you should they are simple but oh so tasty!
14/10/2014
This recipes looks good to eat, but can you only use greek yogart or can it be other kinds of yogart? I would like to try it sometime to see what it tastes like.
16/10/2014
Hi Ruth, certainly you can use other types of yogurt I have been known to make these with Muller light yogurt with great results.
18/07/2014
I love the look of these, the kiwi slice looks really good. #fridayfoodie http://www.pinterest.com/kate29thompson/
18/07/2014
Hi Kate thank you, they are a good healthy alternative to many of the summer frozen treats 😀
09/05/2014
Wow thanks so much Emma, I would never have thought of this before.
Thanks!!
10/05/2014
Hi Chris, thank you I shall check it out 🙂
14/11/2013
I recently began looking for healthier treat options and this looks simple and delicious. Great recipe Emma!
14/11/2013
Hi Dwayne, thank you very much. It can be hard sometimes to find healthy treat recipes especially ones that appeal to kids. Thats why I love these because they are so bright and colourful easy to make and they are good for you 🙂 I am sure you will love them when you make them.
27/06/2013
These look gorgeous – pretty and healthy too! Now where did the sunshine go???
28/06/2013
Hi Louise, tell me about it! I blame Wimbledon it always rains during Wimbledon lol. Glad you like the recipe thought it was time to do something a bit healthier 🙂
26/06/2013
Nice post. Wow! I liked the greek yogurt. Fantastic. Thanks.
29/06/2013
Thank you I’m glad you like it, I too am a lover of Greek yogurt 🙂
24/06/2013
Wow, I love the way these frozen treats look – especially the kiwi in the middle. There is nothing I don’t like about these – and such a healthy treat to cool you down on a hot day! They’re perfect Emma 🙂
25/06/2013
Thanks Kelly, they were really good I sometimes forget how good low calorie and healthy treats are. The fruit was so delicious frozen and the frozen kiwi tasted fantastic.