Blueberry Yogurt Smoothie
A very easy and healthy recipe to prepare blueberry yogurt smoothie and ice pops.
Ingredients
- ½ Cup Blueberries
- ½ Can Pear Halves In Heavy Syrup (An 8.5 Ounce Can Has 4 Halves, So I Used 2 Halves)
- 1 Cup Non Fat Plain Yogurt (I Did Not Have Low Fat Vanilla Yogurt In Hand, Which Was Specified In The Original Recipe)
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence (If Using Plain Yogurt)
- 1 Tablespoon Maple Syrup Or Any Other Sweetener, Optional
Instructions
- Place 2 pear halves (with the syrup) and blueberries in a blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- Add the yogurt, vanilla essence to the blueberry mixture.
- Blend it again.
- Now you have a delicious blueberry smoothie. I also added a tablespoon of maple syrup.
- Alternatively you can pour this mixture in an ice pop mold. The mold which I have has marking until which the liquid has to be filled.
- Close the molds with the lids provided.
- Freeze until firm, 4 to 6 hours. I left it overnight.
How to remove the ice cream pop from the mold?
- Insert the mold in warm water for a couple of seconds or show it under running water in the kitchen sink and place it on the counter. Within a couple of minutes the ice pops will slip out of the molds without any fuss.
Notes
- I tasted the smoothie and found that it was not sweet enough, so I added some maple syrup (which I bought in the orchard) before pouring the mixture in the mold.
- Since I used only half the quantity of blueberries, I think I did not get the vibrant purple color pops as featured in the magazine.
- For the above measurement I got 4 pops and the remaining half a cup of smoothie was devoured by me. My son did not like the smoothie, but he was all excited when I gave him the ice pops. The same thing happened when I prepared Raspberry Lemonade also. He did not like the lemonade but he enjoyed the raspberry pops very much.
