Medy’s Fabulous & Healthy No-Guilt Avocado Ice Cream

You might not find this flavor in Baskin and Robbins anytime soon (or actually now you just might!), but it’s made from wholesome ingredients that include:

• healthy fats
• antioxidants
• a healthful natural sweetener that can actually stabilize blood sugar and aid in diabetes!

It’s the kind of ice cream you can eat everyday.

 

 

A month before I had our twins, I received doctor’s orders to stay off my feet to delay their entry into this world as long as possible. With a 23-month old, and 6 infertility procedures under my belt, I needed help, so we asked a young Filipino woman to come and stay with us for a time. She needed help and so did we.

Medy taught us how to make an amazing, nutty, creamy, delicious, typical Filipino avocado ice cream.

Through the years I’ve experimented with Medy’s tropical recipe to make it dairy-free and refined sugar-free, and it’s still just as fabulous. 

Avocado ice cream is perfect for those hot dog days of summer but rich and satisfying anytime! The good fat in avocados keeps the finished product from freezing hard.

 

 

Avocado Ice Cream Recipe

Ingredients (serves 4):

• 3 avocados
• 3/4 cup coconut milk
• 1/4 cup honey or to taste
• 1 tbsp. lemon juice
• 1 tsp. real vanilla extract (optional)
• pinch of sea salt for extra health-giving minerals and to bring out flavors

Note: Only use absolutely ripe but not over-ripe avocados. For a slightly less sweet ice cream, use 1/5 cup of your sweetener and add stevia of your choice to taste. Or use stevia altogether.

Directions:

1. Cut avocados in quarters, pop out the pits, and peel down the heavy skin.
2. Smash the soft avocado meat with a fork until no lumps remain. This takes no time at all with a potato masher when they are truly ripe!
3. Add sweetener and all other ingredients and mix thoroughly with spoon. Taste test for sweetness at this time.
4. Put mixture in blender for extra smooth consistency, optional
5. Pour into your freezer container and freeze for at minimum 3 hours or overnight.

Tip: Save a couple of empty ice cream containers and their lids to re-use just for your own homemade ice cream!

 

 

Avocados are a Superfood:

• Made up of heart-healthy, plaque-busting, weight-reducing mono-unsaturated fatty acids
• Prevent birth defects. Eat a single avocado each day, and you’ll fulfill 41% of the daily recommended value of folic acid.
• Regulate the blood sugar levels – are full of monounsaturated fat that slows the release of sugars into the bloodstream, prompting less insulin release.
• Smooshed up, makes a wonderful brain-nourishing baby food.
• Rich source of vitamins and minerals – Avocados are full of potassium (way more than bananas) and magnesium, two nutrients known to help reduce blood pressure. They are also rich in Vitamins A, B₉, B₆, B_5,C, K, and E along with copper, bio-available iron, and phosphorus.
• 14 other benefits here.

Thank God for sending our family Medy, allowing me to rest!

 

 

We believe having her help kept our twins safely inside my body for 1 more month, allowing me extra-special time with our active toddler – not to mention, learning a bit of fabulous Filipino cooking!

Good health to you all and Bon appétit!

Have you ever had this typical Filipino avocado dessert?

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