• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Nora's Ingenious Cooking

Delicious whole foods, reinvented: creative sugar-, gluten-, dairy- and egg-free, mostly vegan recipes

  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Contact

No churn vegan mint ice cream

August 11, 2016 By Nora Leave a Comment

I couldn’t let this summer slip away without a new ice cream recipe, so I made some no churn vegan mint ice cream with only 5 ingredients. No dairy, eggs, sugar, soy or nuts in this one! The best part is, this ice cream is veggie based. You can’t have too much vegetables in your diet, right? 😉

No churn vegan mint ice cream - 5 ingredients, #sugarfree, #nutfree @ingeniouscooking.com

Mint ice cream made of vegetables?!

Of all the things that came with my everything-free diet and ingenious recipe creating world that I love the most are those moments when I manage to sneak some veggies into the most delicious desserts. Why? For once, it’s really entertaining to see that surprised look when someone finds out e.g. that the main ingredient of my dark, fudgy brownies is zucchini. 😀 The second part: if dessert is only another way to have some veggies, that’s one more good reason to indulge, right? 🙂

I was playing around with some veggie ice cream recipes in my head for a while. I’ve found Bianca’s avocado ice cream very inspiring, and I was blown away by Evi’s wasabi-cucumber ice cream! I was thinking something along those lines only free from any sugar and coconut, so nut-free folks can enjoy it too. So the idea of this simple avocado-cucumber based ice cream came up and it turned out very refreshing.

No churn vegan mint ice cream - 5 ingredients, #sugarfree, #nutfree @ingeniouscooking.com

More everything-free ice cream recipes

I am so proud of myself for making a non-chocolate ice cream this time! Being a chocoholic, it’s hard to resist. Here you can find my chocolate flavored icy creations:

  • Classic vegan chocolate ice cream (sugarfree, low carb and not coconut cream based) (made in an ice-cream maker)
  • Chocolate chip & coffee ice cream (made in an ice-cream maker)
  • Dark chocolate ice pops (no churn)

Here are some more, no-churn ice cream recipes from my blog:

  • Raspberry-mint ice pops (sugarfree, vegan)
  • Pineapple-ginger ice pops (sugarfree, vegan)
  • Coconut yogurt ice pops with balsamic roasted strawberries

No churn vegan mint ice cream - 5 ingredients, #sugarfree, #nutfree @ingeniouscooking.com

 

No churn vegan mint ice cream
 
Print
Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
5 hours
Total time
5 hours 5 mins
 
A creamy and refreshing mint ice cream made with only 5 ingredients, without sugar, dairy, eggs or nuts. No churn, vegan recipe.
Author: Nora's Ingenious Cooking
Recipe type: ice cream
Cuisine: sugarfree, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan, nut-free, soy-free
Serves: 2 cups
Ingredients
  • 1 avocado (kb. 200g)
  • ½ cucumber (kb. 150g)
  • juice of 1 lime
  • a handful of mint leaves*
  • 5 tablespoons of erythritol**
Instructions
  1. Rinse and clean veggies: scoop avocado, there's no need to peel the cucumber.
  2. Put all the ingredients in a blender and mix until smooth.
  3. Pour in a container of your choice and put in the freezer.
  4. I bet you'd get a creamier consistency if you'd mix your ice cream with a fork every 30 minutes to break any forming ice crystals. However, I didn't have the capacity to do that and my ice cream turned out just fine. Sure, there were some ice crystals but it was still creamy, scoopable (see photos).
  5. Let it sit in the freezer for the night. Leave it on the counter for 40-50 minutes to get scoopable. In case you don't feel like scooping, you can also make these in ice pop moulds.
Notes
* Stick to fresh mint leaves, mint extract is too strong for this.

** You can sub any liquid or powdered sweetener you like for erythritol, but it has to be some significant amount: a pinch of stevia wouldn't do.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 cup Calories: 146 kcal Fat: 12 g Carbohydrates: 12 g Sugar: 0 g Protein: 2 g
3.5.3208

You tried my recipe? Wonderful! Please share you experience: leave a comment to review, take a picture and share it on Facebook with me! 🙂

No churn vegan mint ice cream - 5 ingredients, #sugarfree, #nutfree @ingeniouscooking.com

Related posts:

Spicy red wine roasted plum oatmeal chia breakfast muffins Strawberry chia chutney w/ lime & ginger #vegan #glutenfree |ingeniouscooking.comStrawberry chia chutney Oven baked lentil falafels - #glutenfree #vegan recipe |ingeniouscooking.comOven baked lentil falafel Coconut Yogurt Ice Pops with Balsamic Roasted Strawberries

Filed Under: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, sugar-free, top 8 free, vegan, vegetarian, yeast-free Tagged With: avocado, cucumber, ice cream, mint

Previous Post: « Oven baked lentil falafel

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Rate this recipe:  

CommentLuv badgeShow more posts

Primary Sidebar

  • Bloglovin
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • RSS

Hello!

I'm Nora: creative foodie, ex-PCOS patient, mom of a little baby girl, scientist, coffee lover, avid traveller to name a few things that come to mind. More about me...

Looking for something?

  • Free from:

Most popular

The most hearty gluten-free bread you ever had! Cashew-mushroom paté - vegan Coconut yogurt - probiotic, vegan Tiramisu - without sugar, gluten, dairy or eggs

Footer

About the author

I'm Nora: creative foodie, ex-PCOS patient, mom of a little baby girl, scientist, coffee lover, avid traveller to name a few things that come to mind. More about me...

Sign up via email

Healthy deliciousness delivered straight to your inbox:

  • Bloglovin
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • RSS

Copyright © 2023 · Nora's Ingenious Cooking Privacy Policy