This is probably the simplest dessert you'll ever make, it's not necessarily a fast dessert, particularly because you have to wait for it to chill, but the ingredients can be very simple. The part where this recipe can get complicated is totally in your control. The base ingredient, banana, is all you "need", anything after that is up to you, and can be as complicated as you want. The other great thing about this recipe is for those out there with lactose intolerance, it's ice cream with no cream.
The Ingredients:
2 or 3 heaping tablespoon fulls of Nutella, or 2 or 3 heaping tablespoons of peanut butter, or a generous amount of coaco powder, or half a cup of walnuts... pretty much anything you can think of that would work to flavour ice cream.
5 Bananas
You'll also need a blender.
That's it.
The first part of this recipe is probably the most complicated part. There are two things that might make this harder than it needs to be. The first is your bananas, the riper your bananas the better. If you find yourself with a bunch of bananas that seem to be going bad, but you don't have time to make this recipe, I recommend peeling them, and putting them in the freezer. Then when you're ready to make your banana ice cream, thaw them out and put them in your blender. If you're making this with "fresh" ripe bananas simply put them in the blender. The consistency of your bananas is key for the first part of this recipe. If your bananas are not ripe enough you'll run into some problems with your blender. If your bananas aren't that ripe, but you still want to make this ice cream, chop up your bananas and ad them to your blender. It may take a little while longer to blend them, and you may have to push them down a few times before everything starts to come together.
The second "difficult" part of this recipe is all about what you put in it. If you love bananas, stop after you've blended the bananas and you're good. If you want to ad more to the recipe there are several options. My favorites are peanut butter and Nutella. Both of these ingredients ad a lot of flavour to the ice cream and blend really well. If you're worried about sugar, you can simply ad cocoa powder, and that works fairly well. I've never tried this, but vanilla, berries, or anything soft would probably work as well. Once you've got the soft ingredients blended to a soupy consistency, you can ad anything for texture, if you'd like. Crushed walnuts or hazelnuts work, marshmallows might be fun too. Blend your hard ingredients, but only for a few pulses of your blender. You could also just mix them around with a spoon or spatula if you'd like as well.
Once your ingredients are all mixed together, take the wonderful banana soup and put it in a freezer friendly container with a lid. Put the container in your freezer, and in a few hours, depending on how cold your freezer is, you'll have ice cream. If your freezer is really cold, it may come out very hard (since there's no air injected into it). If that's the case, simply microwave your ice cream for about 15 to 20 seconds to soften it up. No matter what you'll taste banana in this ice cream, but with some nice additional ingredients it can be so much more.
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