Quick Strawberry Frozen Yoghurt

Smooth, gelato-like Strawberry Frozen Yoghurt. An ideal dessert which can be thrown together in minutes, with only four ingredients!

One thing I really miss being dairy free is a wide choice of ice creams. Wide choice, reasonably priced and readily available ice creams! Although there are some excellent dairy free ice cream alternatives available, they tend to be fairly expensive and not available everywhere. And sometimes vanilla ice cream just doesn’t cut it! However, I found a great recipe in Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals cook book, where he makes a sort of instant ice cream using frozen blueberries, yoghurt and honey – and this is the inspiration for this recipe. A very simple frozen dessert using readily available ingredients.

I’ve used strawberries as they are in season at the moment, and if you, like us, buy them when they’re on offer, you might occasionally find yourself with a few too many! The best thing about this recipe is that it is actually best when the strawberries are getting to almost past their best – this is when they are sweetest and have the most intense strawberry flavour. So if you ever find yourself with some strawberries that are turning, and you’re not going to eat them right away – freeze them! Although freezing berries can often ruin their texture, it is a great trick for keeping seasonal fruit for recipes where the texture is not important, and this recipe is a perfect example.

This recipe is seriously quick – I had to laugh writing the recipe realising there are only 3 steps. And one of them is serve and eat! The only key thing you need is a good blender as it does take some serious power to whizz the frozen fruit smooth. One thing you can do to help with this is cut your strawberries up smaller – at least into quarters. Don’t go mad though and cut them too small as you might then loose a lot of the tasty strawberry juices.

Serves 2 generously. Takes 10 minutes, plus freezing time of approximately 1 hour. 

Note: You will need a blender for this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 200g roughly chopped, frozen strawberries (each strawberry should, at least, be quartered. This will help them blend quicker)
• 6 tbsp plain dairy free yoghurt (I used Alpro Soya)
• 1 heaped tsp caster sugar
• 1 tbsp honey

1. Put all of the ingredients into the blender, and blend until smooth (this could take up to 5 minutes).
2. Pour into a freezer suitable container and freezer for about an hour until it is frozen, but soft and scoop-able.
3. Scoop into two bowls and tuck in!