Vegan Pistachio Ice Cream
Vegan pistachio ice cream is ultra creamy and bursting with pistachio flavor! This frozen dessert is made with only 6 ingredients and requires no banana. It is dairy-free, refined sugar-free ice cream can be made in a Ninja Creami, an ice cream maker, or without an ice cream maker!
Ingredients
- 1 12oz can of lite or full-fat coconut milk *see notes
- 1/4 cup milk, of choice (I used almond)
- 3/4 cup raw, shelled pistachios
- 1/4-1/3 cup honey or maple syrup *see notes
- 2/3 cup THICK coconut yogurt or greek yogurt
- 1-2 scoops protein powder (optional!) *I linked the one i use in the notes. It makes the texture amazing!
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp lemon juice *Optional!
- 1/8-1/4 tsp almond extract *Optional! Gives that traditional pistachio ice cream taste!
- 3/4 tsp sea salt
Instructions
Making pistachio ice cream with a Ninja Creami
- Note: If making ice cream with the Ninja Creami, the ice cream mixture will need to be frozen over-night. Just keep that in mind incase you're planning on enjoying it at a certain time!
- Blend all of the ice cream ingredients in a high powered blender until smooth. You can taste the mixture & add extra sweetener, if needed (keep in mind the mixture tastes more sweet before freezing/making into ice cream).
- Pour the mixture into a Ninja Creami pint and freeze over-night or for 8ish hours until completely solid. Then use your Ninja Creami on the Lite Ice Cream setting. I like to run mine twice to get it extra creamy.
Making pistachio ice cream with an ice cream machine
- Note: Freeze the ice cream bowl in the freeze the night before or the morning of making your ice cream.
- Blend all of the ice cream ingredients in a high powered blender until smooth. You can taste the mixture & add extra sweetener, if needed (keep in mind the mixture tastes more sweet before freezing/making into ice cream). Then turn the ice cream maker on and follow your ice cream makers directions on how to make the ice cream (usually you just pour it right in while it's running!)
Making pistachio ice cream without an ice cream machine
- Blend all of the ingredients for the pistachio ice cream until smooth. You can taste the mixture & add extra sweetener, if needed (keep in mind the mixture tastes more sweet before freezing/making into ice cream).
- Pour the ice cream mixture into a silicone ice cube tray. The next day, once they're frozen, pop them out and re-blend into creamy ice cream/soft serve!
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Notes
*For the creamiest, most ice cream-like texture, opt for full-fat canned coconut milk. However, this still turns out delicious with other milk varieties!
*Want to add extra protein to the recipe? Blend in a scoop of your favorite vanilla protein! I highly recommend Equip's vanilla protein. It creates the fluffiest texture! You can use my code "DANIBREINER"
If you want to add even more protein, feel throw in 2 scoops of collagen peptides! (: