Yogurt & Mixed Berry Ice Lollies / Popsicles

Recipe Cooked, Photographed and Written by Praveena

PrepTime:15 mins FreezeTime:5 hrs Cuisine:Indian

Summers are at peaks, and my kids have been spending most of the evenings in the yard, playing. I wouldn’t allow them to step out before evening… 🙂 And it has become a routine, actually ‘a rule of food’, for me to offer them something cool / frozen to refresh.

And the topmost thing is, we (my 3 kids & I) prepare such frozen desserts the previous day to enjoy them the next day. Last week, we made these Berry ice-lollies and Cherry Ice-cream (just replaced the fruit in this >> Strawberry Eggless Ice Cream (without condensed milk) ) Hope you would try them! 🙂

yogurt & mixed berry ice lollies / popsicles

What if you do not have the moulds:

You could use steel (or) plastic cups or even tumblers would do. Either use small wooden sticks / at least small spoons would perfectly work.

To replace the sugar / honey:

Just replace the sugar / honey with a large banana (or) 2 small bananas. This gives the same sweet taste to the lollies.

Health Benefits of ‘Yogurt & Mixed Berry Ice Lollies / Popsicles’:

Curds / Yogurt are rich in protein & calcium. Helps to improve digestion & strengthens immune system.

Berries are high in fiber, are loaded with anti-oxidants, and help fight inflammation. (info from internet).

Before starting to cook, don’t forget to see the Tips mentioned at the end.

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Ingredients (makes : 6)

Plain Yogurt / Homemade Curd / Greek Yogurt – 1 cup
Blue Berries – ½ cup (fresh / frozen)
Strawberries – ½ cup (fresh / frozen)
Sugar / Honey / Maple Syrup – ¼ cup

Special Ingredients:

Sugar / Honey / Maple Syrup

Procedure for ‘Yogurt & Mixed berry Ice lollies / Popsicles’:

Into a blender add half of the strawberries & a teaspoon of sugar / honey / maple syrup, and blend into fine puree.
Pour this puree, into each of the mould, just up to ¼ level. Put the moulds in the freezer for 10 mins, so that this part freezes well, before we top up later.
Mean while, in the same blender take the blue berries, plain yogurt / curd, rest of strawberries and rest of the sugar / honey / syrup. Blend thoroughly.
Take the moulds from the freezer, top each with this yogurt blend.
Close each mould with lid / a wooden stick and put them back into freezer for 5 hrs / overnight / until they freeze solid.
When ready to serve, take them out, let them rest at room temperature for 2-3 mins.
Gently pull each ice-lolly out of the mould & enjoy! Done!

Tips:

Instead of using mixed berries you could use only only one of them.
As per your taste, you can reduce / completely eliminate adding the sweetener.
The freeze time (5 hrs) I mentioned is the minimum needed time to get perfectly solid ice lollies.
But you can even freeze them overnight / until they turn solid.
Sour curd / yogurt doesn’t suit well.

Result:

Being drenched with berries, the Yogurt & Mixed berry ice lollies / Popsicles, turned out exotic.
And my kids said ‘”Amma, these are just Berrilicious!!” 🙂 🙂
The best part of these ice-lollies is, we can relish them for breakfast / after lunch / for evening snack / even after dinner. Yes, considering hot summer days!