Delicious, wholesome frozen yogurt recipe. Three basic ingredients, and you can add your own fruit. No ice cream maker needed!
This frozen yogurt recipe requires no ice cream maker. It’s easy, delicious and wholesome.
Unlike commercial frozen yogurt, my homemade frozen yogurt contains no yucky additives, so don’t expect the “perfect” texture you get when you add thickeners, stabilizers and emulsifiers.
Have you seen Pinkberry‘s list of ingredients, by the way? Their original frozen yogurt contains: Nonfat milk, sugar, nonfat yogurt, nonfat yogurt powder, fructose, dextrose, natural flavors, citric acid, guar gum, maltodextrin, mono- and diglycerides, rice starch.
MY LATEST VIDEOSIn this homemade frozen yogurt recipe, you can taste the tang of the yogurt and the sweetness of the honey. It’s simple, delicious, and best eaten on the day you make it.
The basic recipe is simple: yogurt, honey, and vanilla extract. To that, you can add fruit – fresh or frozen, pureed or chunky. I like to completely puree the fruit in the food processor, then add the yogurt, honey and vanilla. But you can blend the yogurt and honey first, then add the fruit and process briefly, leaving fruit chunks in your yogurt.
The possibilities are endless, but the frozen yogurt flavors I make most often are mango, raspberry, vanilla and chocolate. I’ll post each recipe separately over the next few weeks. Today, I’ll start with the most basic: vanilla frozen yogurt recipe (which goes so well with grilled peaches, by the way!).
Frozen Yogurt Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups Greek yogurt, plain, full fat
- 1/4 cup honey*
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place the yogurt, honey and vanilla in your food processor’s bowl.
- Process to incorporate, stopping once to scrape the sides of the bowl, then process 1 more minute, until light and fluffy.
- Using a spatula, transfer the mixture into a square 9-inch pan. Cover with cling wrap, and freeze for 45 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the freezer, Use a spatula to stir the already-frozen edges into the still-soft center, then use a whisk to mix everything together until smooth.
- Cover again, and place in the freezer for 2 more hours, repeating the process of stirring the yogurt every 30 minutes.
- When the entire mixture is frozen, serve immediately as a soft-serve yogurt (use chilled bowls), or freeze 1-2 more hours for a firmer consistency that you can scoop out with an ice cream scoop.
- If you end up storing the frozen yogurt for longer than that (say, overnight or a couple of days - I doubt it will last longer), remove it from the freezer 20 minutes before serving, to allow it to soften.
Notes
When using low carb sweeteners, I calculate their carbs as zero, because for many people, myself included, they have zero or minimal impact on blood sugar. However, you should always test for yourself and make sure that a particular recipe does not negatively impact your blood sugar.
