Keto Ice Cream Mint Chip
With fresh mint leaves and spinach to give green color and nutrients, low-carb Keto Ice Cream Mint Chip is created without the sugar, bad fats, and chemicals found in store-bought ice cream. vegan, sugar-free, dairy-free, plus a Paleo alternative.
Ingredients
- Full-fat coconut cream in two (14-ounce) cans, chilled for 24 hours in the refrigerator
- 1/3 cup of erythritol in powder (or honey for Paleo)
- Fresh mint leaves, 1/4 cup
- 1 serving of new baby spinach
- MCT oil, 2 teaspoons.
- One-half teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 to 2 tablespoons of peppermint oil
- 4 tablespoons sugar-free chocolate chunks, shavings, or chips, 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Place your ice cream maker's bowl in the freezer and let it stay there all night.
- Blend the following ingredients in a blender: coconut cream, mint leaves, spinach, MCT oil, vanilla essence, peppermint extract, and salt. For about 20 minutes, allow it cool in the freezer.
- Pour the chilled ice cream mixture into the churning machine and follow the manufacturer's instructions.
- Add chocolate chunks or chips after 15 minutes, then finish churning.
- Eat the ice cream as soft serve right out of the freezer, OR pour it into a bread pan and freeze it for about four hours to solidify (BEST). It will get hard if you freeze it for any longer, so take it out of the freezer approximately 20 minutes before serving.
Notes
If you don't have an ice cream machine, proceed with the recipe to Step 2, freeze the mixture in ice cube trays, and then either thaw the cubes just enough to blend in a conventional blender or blend the frozen cubes in a high-speed blender like a Vitamix.
Due to the lack of preservatives or stabilizers, it is best eaten the same day it is cooked, but leftovers can be frozen for up to a month.
Nutritional data
Serving Size 1/2 cup serves 8, with 148 calories per serving and 15.8 grammes of total fat as 20% of the daily value.
cholesterol 0% at 0 mg
4% sodium, 83.5 mg
3.3g 1% of total carbohydrates
Protein 1.7g Sugars 0.1g 3%
cholesterol 0% at 0 mg
4% sodium, 83.5 mg
3.3g 1% of total carbohydrates
Protein 1.7g Sugars 0.1g 3%
