Strawberry Ice Cream

Experimenting with more aquafaba recipes is still in full swing. Aquafaba, the liquid from a can of chickpeas or cannelini beans is still quite magical to me. This weekend I had some strawberries that were not looking so hot. We decided to try to turn them into vegan, pareve, healthy ice cream. This experiment came out amazing. The picture below does not do it justice. The ice cream tasted incredible and was really easy to make. This dessert is vegan, vegetarian, and refreshing!

A quick note, I had only used chickpea brine in my aquafaba recipes until now. I needed cannelini beans for a recipe, so I saved that liquid and used it in the strawberry ice cream. It worked perfectly. So easy and so good. My daughter is eating a scoop of the strawberry ice cream along with her breakfast right now.

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Strawberry Aquafaba Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 cup strawberries
1T cocounut sugar(or any sweetner of your choice)
1/2 cup of aquafaba
1/3 cup powdered sugar(you might need more if your strawberries are not very sweet)
3/4 tsp vanilla bean paste (or other vanilla)

Instructions

Cut off the tops of your strawberries and make them into a puree(use a blender or a food processor or a fork). Stir in your coconut sugar. In a heavy duty mixer whip up your aquafaba until stiff peaks, should take about 5 minutes or so. Just before stiff peaks slowly add in the vanilla and powdered sugar. Once you are at stiff peaks, slowly pour in your strawberry puree. Put into a Tupperware container and let freeze overnight. You will be amazed in the morning!

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5 thoughts on “Strawberry ice cream”

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Megan Justice August 8, 2015 at 4:30 pm

This is fascinating to me. Is it possible to get this substance from dried beans? Is it just the liquid from soaking them?

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Sara Post author August 8, 2015 at 4:52 pm

Hi! Yes, you can make your own chickpea liquid by cooking the dry garbanzo beans in water. To save time, and since I use them so often I buy the cans. If you think about what the liquid looks like after cooking dry beans or taking them out of the can, that liquid really does resemble egg whites anyway!