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#17 Strawberries with Mango and Banana Sorbet
Prep time: 10 mins
Freeze time: 2 hours
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
- 3 1/3 cups (500g) strawberries
- 1 large handful mint
- 2 mangoes
- 2 bananas
- 4 passionfruit
Preparation:
- Tread strawberries onto skewers, alternating with the mint leaves. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
- Peal mangoes and bananas and chop into chunks. Place in the freezer for 2 hours
- Put the frozen mango and banana into a food processor until smooth. Serve the sorbet with the strawberry skewers, topped with passionfruit pulp.
Source: 80/20 Diet, by Teresa Cutter
#18 Frozen Peach Yoghurt
Prep time: 15 mins
Freeze time: 5-6 hours
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
- 2 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened sliced peaches, thawed
- 1 (.25 ounce) envelope unflavoured gelatin
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 16 ounces fat-free vanilla yoghurt
Preparation:
- Place the peaches in a blender or food processor; cover and process until puréed. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over cold water; let stand for 1 minute. Stir in sugar. Cook and stir over low heat until gelatin and sugar are dissolved.
- In a bowl, combine the yoghurt, peach purée and gelatin mixture until blended. Pour into an ungreased 9-inch square dish. Cover and freeze for 3-4 hours or until partially set.
- Cut into pieces and place in a mixing bowl; beat on medium speed until smooth. Transfer to a freezer container. Cover and freeze until firm, about 2 hours.
#19 Strawberry Sandwiches
Prep time: 10 mins
Freeze time: 3 hours, or overnight
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
- 1 x 375g punnet strawberries, hulled and chopped
- 1/3 cup (80g) caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 egg white
- Extra strawberries, sliced, to serve
- 2 egg whites
- ½ cup (110g) sugar
Preparation:
- Place strawberries, half of sugar and lemon juice in blender. Blend until smooth.
- Place egg white in a clean bowl. Using electric beaters beat until soft peaks form. Add remaining sugar and whisk until firm. Gradually beat in strawberry purée. Continue to beat until thick and frothy. Pour into a 1 litre container. Freeze for 3 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 150C. Line 3 baking trays with baking paper. Mark out 12 x 8cm squares on to baking paper. Turn baking paper over pencil side down.
- Place egg whites in a clean dry bowl. Using electric beaters beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add half of sugar a tablespoon at a time, until stiff. Fold in remaining sugar.
- Using a small metal spatula spread meringue evenly within marked squares, making sure tops are smooth and flat. Bake for 30 minutes. Reduce heat 120C. Bake for a further 20 minutes. Turn off oven and leave to cool with door ajar.
- To serve, dust 6 serving plates with icing sugar and top each with a meringue square. Top with scoops prepared ice cream, remaining meringues and sliced strawberries. Dust with icing sugar.
#20 Watermelon and Lime Ice Pops
Prep time: 15 mins
Serves: 10-12
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 1 level tbsp glucose syrup
- Rind and juice of 1 lime
- 1kg watermelon flesh, skin and seeds removed
Preparation:
- Pour 100ml cold water into a saucepan and add the caster sugar. Place the pan over a low heat and stir until the sugar dissolves. Bring the mixture to the boil and simmer it for 2 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat and stir in the glucose syrup and the lime zest and juice. Leave the syrup to cool.
- Place the watermelon flesh in a food processor, purée it until smooth then stir in the syrup. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve, discarding the pulp. Pour the mixture into the lolly moulds and freeze until solid.
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This is an amazing list of great desert recipes. I especially like #17, the fruit sorbet and the healthy banana bread.
I really should start thinking about taking in more Soy and Tofu but i have never eaten them
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great list! I am for sure gonna try some of these. One thing my wife and I do sometimes is make a fruit salad on Sunday and have a little bit every night after dinner. that’s usually enough for us. we also like banana bread (I’m gonna try the one above)!
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Those watermelon and lime ice pops sound fantastic – and summer’s around the corner here in Australia – defn going on my ‘to make’ list ;)
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Hi Fitness Guy,
I know what you mean about soy and tofu – I also need to try to use them more. I often use soy beans in curries etc, and we use soy milk also, but I think these desserts are a great healthy alternative.
Hi Blake,
Yes, that’s a great idea. I think you’re encouraged to eat more fruit simply by having it chopped and prepared in the fridge. Good tip!
The Swan,
Yes, the weather is getting nice here in Australia, isn’t it? I’m in Tassie though, so it can still be cold some days. I love the idea of healthy ice pops, and they’re so easy!
Thanks for all your comments guys, glad you enjoyed the post!
Heya Melanie,
Great recipes. All sound very tempting! Would love to get the calorie information for them though (if you already have them)…
Thanks!
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Shelvia,
Sorry I don’t have a record of the calorie info. Do you have access to a calorie counter?
My all time favorite is frozen grapes. They are amazing and sweet, and really satisfy a sweet tooth. Second favorite–frozen bananas mixed with honey and put in the food processor–like a creamy sorbet. Amazing.
jh
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G’day Melanie,
Thankyou for the recipes.
For the Raspberry Mousse, what is the “non-dairy whipped topping”.
Can I use something else instead of.
Thankyou
JH,
Yes, I love frozen grapes too, and raspberries are also good frozen. I also like your banana and honey sorbet idea – delicious!
Hi Graham,
Glad you liked the recipes! It’s a non-dairy dessert topping, which is similar to whipped cream. So, I imagine whipped cream would do the same job.
Check out Craft they do a version, but don’t know if you can get it in Australia.
I love the Healthy Banana Bread, yummy!
Hi Jack,
I’m very glad!! :-)
Nice post! I especially like #22 Chocolate Banana Tofu Pudding)) Feels like really Tasty))
I agree that it’s not really good to eat only low fat food or not eat at all in order to lose weight:it could be harmful for your health. It’s better to switch to some healhty food rather than any junk food (though sometimes you can’t just stay), and it’s also a good idea to work out a habit to do physical training at least in the morning….then (it may take some time) but you’ll be constantly losing weight.
Hi Michael,
If you give the tofu pudding a go let us know, I haven’t tried it yet myself! :-)
Hi melanie,
looking for some help, husband is on prenisalone and is pre diabetic, after a menu plan that does not have yogurt, tofu,lentils and includes desserts and a plan that doesnt seem like a diet, he is very overweight,
hope you can help me
regardsdonna
There’s no number 5. So only 24 recipes then. Some of them look quite good though!
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Hi Helen,
Thanks for letting me know about that problem. It’s fixed now, if you try to click again on the link :-)
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