Monday, April 15, 2013

Healthy Tangerine "Creamsicles"



These are SOOOOO yummy, and HEALTHY! 

Tangerine “Creamsicles” Recipe

Ingredients
7  mini tangerines (or roughly 1 cup of orange or tangerine juice)
7 Tbsp Greek yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup milk
¼ cup cooled brewed raspberry white tea (or other tea, juice, or more milk)
Adjust liquids to increase volume if needed
Sweetener to taste (honey, agave nectar, stevia, etc.) *optional*

Cut mini tangerines in half width wise, and remove peels. Place mini tangerine pieces, yogurt, milk, tea, and vanilla together in a blender or food processor. Blend until very smooth. This recipe leaves the pulp in, so you do get texture in your pops. I don't mind, since I am happy to have the extra fibre, but if you want popsicles that have a more traditional smooth uniform texture - ie. you don’t want pulp - you may choose to replace the tangerines with pulp-free orange juice, or use more mini tangerines and squeeze the juice out of them before adding other ingredients. 
Pour mixture into popsicle molds and place in freezer for several hours or until solid. 
Makes ~6-7 popsicles.

Nutritional Info for Tangerine “Creamsicles”*: 

mini tangerines
7
0
259
vanilla greek yogurt
7T
3.9
127.8
2% milk
1/4 c
1.25
32.5
vanilla extract
1tsp
0
0
raspberry white tea - brewed
1/4 c
0
0
per batch
5
419.3
per pop (1/7th of batch)
0.7
59.9


*Calories are figured out for recipe as is, without added sweetener.

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