Make sweet potato ice cream yourself: vegan recipes for nice cream without sugar
Creamy, quick to make and variable: the sweet potato ice cream is a great invention for everyone who wants to eat healthily but still doesn’t want to miss out on a refreshing dessert in the summer months. The nice cream is prepared without industrial sugar and has a low fat content. Vegans and allergy sufferers can look forward to the nut-free alternative. And best of all: the recipe for ice potato ice cream is super easy and you can make it without an ice cream machine. We explain what you should pay attention to and give some examples of how you can vary the basic recipe with different ingredients.
Prepare the sweet potato ice cream vegan: Recipe for nice cream with vanilla
Sweet potatoes, also known as sweet potatoes, are confusingly similar to potatoes. They are also prepared similarly. But actually they have nothing in common. Because the potatoes belong to the nightshade family and the sweet potatoes – to the bindweed family. The last ones contain three times as much sugar and starch, but they are approved for diabetics. This is because after consuming sweet potato the human body produces insulin much more slowly than when consuming potatoes and fruits. They are also real vitamin bombs. Among other things, they contain vitamins from group B, but they are also rich in trace elements. For the recipe for sweet potato ice cream, you not only need sweet potatoes, but also other ingredients. These include healthy fats such as coconut milk and peanut butter, fruits such as bananas and berries, and date syrup or agave syrup is used for sweetening.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- 400 g sweet potatoes
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 150 ml optional soy milk
- 1 pinch of organic Bourbon vanilla, ground
- For sweetening: 80 ml maple syrup
- 2 bananas, ripe and medium-sized
Preparation:
1. Peel and dice the sweet potatoes. Put water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the sweet potatoes and cook until soft. Then take the pot off the stove, drain the water and let the sweet potatoes cool down completely.
2. Put the cooled sweet potato cubes in a container with a lid, dice the bananas and add. Process the whole thing with the hand blender to a smooth mass.
3. Then add the coconut milk, rice syrup, maple syrup and Bourbon vanilla and puree until creamy. Close the container or cover it with cling film and place in the freezer. Over the next 4 hours, take the ice cream out of the freezer eight times and stir with the hand blender. Then chill overnight. Take out of the freezer just before serving and enjoy defrosted.
Our tip: You can refine the ice cream with peanut butter (256 g) if you like. If you don’t like the orange ice color, then you can try the next purple sweet potato ice cream recipe. But don’t try to color orange sweet potatoes with food coloring, you won’t succeed. The result then usually looks green.
Prepare purple sweet potato ice cream
Just a few years ago, purple sweet potatoes were considered exotic and were rarely found in German supermarkets and health food stores. They are now available almost everywhere. The purple sweet potatoes are used by hobby chefs as a coloring agent in various dishes. There is no difference in taste between the two varieties. Here is a recipe for purple sweet potato ice cream with berries:
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- 400 g sweet potatoes
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 150 ml Reissirup
- For sweetening: 80 ml agave syrup
- 1 ripe banana, diced
- 1 handful of berries of your choice
- White chocolate flakes (on request)
Preparation:
1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, wash, peel and dice the sweet potatoes. Set the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with convection. Place the cubes on the baking paper and put in the oven. Bake for 45 minutes and then let cool. Do not boil or cook the sweet potatoes so that they do not absorb too much water.
2. Finely puree the baked potatoes with the hand blender and then add the banana, coconut milk, rice syrup and agave syrup. Mix everything with the hand mixer until creamy.
3. Cut the banana into bite-sized cubes and stir into the ice cream mixture with the berries and the white chocolate shavings.
4. Transfer the ice to a storage container and cover with cling film. Chill for four hours, taking out of the freezer every hour and stirring again with the hand blender.
Prepare sweet potato ice cream in the Thermomix
You can also prepare sweet potato ice cream in the Thermomix. Here is a suitable recipe for Sweet Potato Ice:
The necessary ingredients for 4 servings:
- 400 g sweet potatoes
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 150 ml Reissirup
- To decorate: coconut blossom sugar, to taste
- 2 ripe bananas, diced
- 1 handful of mango, diced
Preparation:
- Peel and dice the sweet potatoes and cook until soft. Then let cool for 30 minutes.
- Dice the bananas and add to the sweet potatoes. Then transfer to a container and cover with cling film. Then place in the freezer overnight. The next morning, add the frozen potatoes and bananas together with the coconut milk, rice syrup and mango pieces to the Thermomix and puree for about 25 seconds at level 10.
- Decorate the ice cream with coconut blossom sugar and serve immediately after preparation.
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