One for bench pressers, health geeks, little sportstars, and frankly anyone who fancies treating their body like a Formula 1 racing car. (Yes, please!).
I gift you this bowl of chilled creamy goodness, a cosmic spillage from the heavens.
Yep. Get your polyphenol dance on, and Florence + The Machine cranked up. This is ice cream that feeds your feet as well as your sweet tooth.
Press play on the recording above, to learn just how simple this recipe is. Even easier and quicker to make than dairy ice cream! And significantly more nourishing - bananas, berries, Irish whey, lemon, raw local honey, fresh turmeric and ginger.
I love it as a post work-out treat to restore my (small but hardworking) muscles. And to inject some extra protein into my orbit.
It took me years to submit to marine collagen powder, or to protein powder in the form of good quality Irish whey. But when I finally did, my circuit training and heavy lifting actually improved, albeit with added creatine in the mix too. Naturally, I am somewhat reluctant to write this (being an advocate of wholefoods over lab-creations). But I listened to my body over years of consistent training, and gave it a go.
The Jazz
Oat milk and frozen banana give a brilliantly cold, creamy, rich consistency. It’s a perfect recipe for using up those rapidly browning bananas in your fruit bowl (see below). Simply peel, break into chunks, and pop the chunks of banana into the freezer. Then you’ll have an artillery of frozen banana at the ready for sonic smoothies and plant-powered ice creams like this one. The perfect antidote to a heatwave, or irascible toddlers.
Combine the frozen bananas with any fruit you like. The ratio is the key.
My athletes love pineapple (naturally spilling with manganese to quietly support their training load). But mango or cherry are my absolute fave. Mangoes are pumped with beta carotene and vitamin C for sun-kissed skin, as well as those coveted polyphenols. So it has my vote in a heatwave.
The addition of turmeric offers a powerful swag of curcumin, shown to exhibit excellent leadership in our body’s own anti-inflammatory squadron. Then there’s the delicious aria from the fruit and ginger combo, forming a flavour jackpot with extra fireworks and reverie.
You’ll want to make this all summer long.
More ideas for a hot week? Check out last week’s (Un)cooking for a Heatwave, including recipes such as banana PB frozen bites (below, left); chilled tomato gazpacho soup (below, right); king oyster mushroom kebabs for the barbecue (below) and a gut healthy, crazydelicious mango lassi (also pictured).
Go forth and make juggernauts of joy! (Yes, I actually said that live in the video. My brain always surprises me. I think somebody else might be living in it).
Side note: regular readers might be baffled why I didn’t post the promised cauli mac recipe. I am pressing pause on hot cheesy pasta dishes, until the temperature drops by at least 10C! In the meantime, enjoy mainlining this ice cream.
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Love, light, and turmeric maracas,
Susan Jane
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// Protein Nice Cream//
Serves 2-3
3-4 bananas, peeled and frozen in chunks
2 teaspoons freshly grated ginger
250g frozen mango, strawb, raspberry or cherry
Good drizzle of raw honey
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated or dried turmeric
Squeeze of fresh lemon
4 tablespoons (max) of your preferred milk or coconut water
1 scoop of neutral, extra-fine protein powder (e.g. sprouted brown rice protein, flavourless whey or collagen powder)
Step 1
Pop the listed ingredients into a powerful high-speed blender and whizz for 40 seconds or until sumptuously smooth.
You might need to stop the blender a few times, to scooch down the sides. Or add more liquid to loosen it up (but this results in a much ‘softer’ serve, so I recommend continuing blending in place of adding extra liqiud. Ignore what I did in the live video! I wanted to be swift, so that viewers wouldn’t endure 2 minutes of blending noise!)
Step 2
Serve straight away in waffle cones or chilled bowls. This ice cream will not re-freeze well, so you’ll need to neck the entire batch. Not usually a problem, in our experience.
