Strawberry & Blueberry Frozen Yogurt Popsicles
Active Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 4hr 15 min(includes freezing time)
Yields about 12 popsicles(depends on the size of your molds)
I scream! You scream! We all scream for yogurt and fruit popsicles! With our super easy popsicle recipe, you will have the bases covered when it comes to eating delicious fruit-filled frozen treats this summer. With yogurt, fresh produce, and two other ingredients, you can put together our Strawberry + Blueberry Yogurt Popsicles in no time. Perfect for your 4th of July celebrations or just summer in general!
These frozen fruit yogurt popsicles are so easy to make. With only a handful of ingredients, deliciousness can happen super quick! So grab the kiddos and get in the kitchen and have a fun time putting these yogurt pops together. Cold, slightly sweet, and filled with all sorts of goodness. What’s not to like?!
In TCM, Summer is a yang season and is associated with the fire element. Fire governs the heart and small intestine. When fire is balanced within the body, the heart governs and circulates the blood properly and the intestines properly digest food. Emotionally you are balanced, sensitive and enthusiastic. You feel good. Here are a few simple guidelines to keep fire balanced:
Focus on yin foods. Yin foods are wet and cool. Fruits and vegetables (especially green vegetables like lettuce, cucumbers and watercress) are yin. For protein, eat fish or seafood instead of meat. Smoothies and salads can be very cooling, sometimes too cooling if you have some internal imbalances, but the Summertime when we want to enjoy these types of foods!
Eat moderately. Avoid huge meals.
Eat bitter foods. Bitter foods support the fire element. Coffee, tea and chocolate (without sugar) are all bitter and moderate amounts of them are appropriate for summer health. This is the season you can call your coffee a health food! Asparagus, bitter greens like kale, arugula or escarole, celery and rhubarb are all good foods for the summer.
Eat your largest meal in the Afternoon.
By eating mostly fresh, light, wet foods and including a heavy meal only in the afternoon, you will help your fire burn bright but not out of control. You’ll feel light, cool and energized. Your heart, circulation and digestion will be strong. You won’t feel bloated or full.
Traditional Chinese Medicine uses nutrition as a tool to maintain health and promote healing. Eating a yin diet with your heavy meal in the late afternoon is good general advice, but your constitution may need a slightly different routine. The proportion of yin food matters and varies from person to person. To get the best summer eating tips, contact us and together we’ll make a plan that’s perfect for you.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup blueberries
1 cup fresh ripe strawberries
2 1/2 cups Plain, Vanilla or Greek yogurt
1 tablespoon raw sugar
1 tablespoon honey or agave
INSTRUCTIONS
Rinse and pick the stems from the blueberries & strawberries.Leave the blueberries whole, but cut the strawberries in half.
Place the fruit into the food processor, add agave and raw date sugar. Pulse until the fruit mixture is loose but still has noticeable bits of fruit.
Spoon the mixture into a bowl and add your choice of yogurt, gently swirl the ingredients together leaving spirals of creamy yogurt. Doing this will give the popsicles a more defined swirl pattern or just mix it all up, it’s all up to you!
Spoon the yogurt and fruit mixture into the popsicle molds to the top, place on the lid, and push the popsicle sticks into the slots.
Place the popsicle mold in the freezer overnight or at least four hours to get solidly frozen popsicles.
Remove the popsicles just before serving and run warm water along the sides to loosen them from the mold.
Enjoy!
NOTES
If you don’t have fresh fruit on hand, or want to save some money consider buying frozen fruit. It will work just as good as fresh. Frozen fruit is frozen at the peak of it being harvested. You will find that it won’t affect the flavor of the fruit popsicles.
You can store these popsicles for 1-2 months in the freezer. They store best when placed in a freezer container that has a lid. If they are not in a covered container the plastic popsicle molds will begin to take on odors of the freezer making your popsicle flavor change.
photo and recipe credits to The Worthey Life
