This is a wonderful smoothie that can be made into kefir ice cream.
Popeye and Olive Oyl
This is probably one of the things I make at least once a week. I love it, and so does my family. Kids will never know that this has spinach in it. I have disguised this by saying,” this is a shamrock shake or Popeye’s shake”, and they are so distracted by this that they forget that it is green, and just think that it is cool. I top this ice cream with some of the new fruity flavored olive oils on the market today. My favorite is the blood orange flavor and the lemon flavored one. Just a drizzle across the top and it really gives this ice cream such a WOW factor when you eat it. Like a syrup topping only no sugar. You can just leave this as a smoothie and not make it into ice cream and this is delicious too.
I made this for the kefir classes that I teach, and it is always surprises people how easy it can be to put healthy foods like kefir and spinach in your diet.
Popeye and Olive Oyl Kefir Ice Cream
- 13 ounces of coconut milk or you can substitute milk
- ¾ cup of kefir cheese (second fermented kefir cheese is even better)
- 1 cup frozen fruit a mixture of peaches mango and strawberry
- 1 handful of spinach leaves
- 3 to 4 packages of stevia or you can substitute ⅓ to ½ cup of honey or sucanat
- 1 cup of ice
- Splash of rum vanilla
- Olive Oyl Topping
- Flavored Blood orange olive oil or lemon flavored olive oil.
- Mix all ingredients in a blender till well combined and ice is crushed thoroughly. Place in ice cream freezer in freeze according to manufacturers instructions.
- Olive Oyl Topping
- Flavored Blood orange olive oil or lemon or other fruit flavored olive oil.
- Drizzle this flavored olive oil over the ice cream.
2nd ferment cheese?? I don’t know this one. do you 2nd ferment the kefir and then make the cheese?
Yep you got it. You don’t have to second ferment it works fine if you don’t. Just tastes better if you do.
Okay, good to know. That’s what I do with my smoothies. Now i may need to get an ice cream freezer. Thanks!
This looks really good. I’m definitely going to try it! Thanks, Donna!
I make spinach smoothies almost daily with kefir and frozen berries, sometimes 1/2 kefir 1/2 coconut milk, but using coconut milk with kefir cheese sounds great, and Ive never seen fruit olive oils, but I will be looking when I go out for groceries today
thank you
This is really unusual, but I would totally try this
I’ve made avocado ice cream in the past. It taste great!!!! Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather 