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Ingredients
- 1 frozen fully-ripe banana (peel bananas
- and place in a zip lock bag in the
- freezer several hours ahead)
- 1/3-2/3 cup whole plain yogurt
- 1 teaspoon honey (optional)
- small handful fresh or frozen fruit of your
- choice, chopped (approximately 3-5
- whole strawberries or 1/2 a peach or
- 1/2 a pear, etc.)
Preparation
Step 1
Slice the frozen banana at 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch intervals. Place in food processor along with the yogurt and honey. Pulse until almost smooth. Depending on your processor, this can take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. Add chopped fruit, and pulse til banana looks smooth and other fruit is reduced to fairly small pieces.
Or, you can pulse til the fruit is completely pureed, if that's your preference (l personally like to have pieces of fruit to chew; it adds to my feeling of satisfaction to have chewed something solid).
Over-processing will turn it into a "smoothie", so stop just when the big chunks of banana disappear.
The more yogurt you use, the less frozen-y it will be, and the more smoothie-like it will become. Use less yogurt for a very thick, ice cream-like, consistency - or add more banana if your processor can handle it.
When you're ready to experience unparallelled satisfaction, replace the honey with 1 or 2 tablespoons cream or crème fraîche. Or replace the regular yogurt and the honey with homemade yogurt made from cream or half and half. Heaven!
This is my rundown of fruits I've tried. All were quite edible, some were just better than others:
blackberries - contribute a hardness, or grainy-ness, to the mouthfeel,
I didn't care for it
blueberries- the skins produce an unsatisfactory mouthfeel, there's not
enough to chew, but enough to be bothersome
nectarines - good
peaches - good if skinned first
pears - when fully ripe and juicy, work well
raspberries - really good
strawberries - my absolute favorite
2 moderate servings, but don't get me wrong, I eat the whole thing myself!