Adriano Chiaretta

Happen to live quite a few miles (or quite a few thousand miles) away from the nearest froyo place and don’t have an easy way to get your hands on some frozen yogurt? Or perhaps you realized the frozen yogurt you get at the various PinkBerry, Yogurtland (my favorite btw), RedMango, YogoFactory, and the other hundreds of froyo franchises doesn’t see a whole lot of yogurt? Then you can make it yourself, and here’s what I use to prep up some froyo in 15 mins or less.

What you’ll need, in addition to the ingredients, is an ice cream maker (the “place bin in the fridge for 12 hours before using” type  is just fine, no need for bigger ones with built-in freezing capability).

And here are a few recipes I came up with so far.  According to who enjoyed the result, the best so far is the “Orange- Chocolate-Cinnamon” flavor.

– Fruit flavor (Orange, Strawberry, Blueberry, etc.) frozen yogurt:

• 500 g plain low-fat or fat free yogurt
• 200 ml fat free soy milk or low-fat milk (personally I prefer the soymilk)
• 20 g sugar substitute (splenda, sweet & low, or equivalent)
• one packet Hawaiian Punch single drink mix sugar free (or equivalent) — here you have plenty of choices, my favorite are the Orange, raspberry, and grapefruit flavors

• 500 g plain low-fat or fat free yogurt
• 200 ml fat free soy milk or low-fat milk (personally I prefer the soymilk)
• 20 g sugar substitute (splenda, sweet & low, or equivalent)
• 10 g chocolate powder no sugars added
• half packet Hawaiian Punch Single Orange Ocean drink mix sugar free
• 3 g cinnamon powder

1. place the yoghurt in a mid-size bowl and stir it a bit
2. warm up the milk for 2 – 3 minutes in the microwave
3. once the milk is ready add do it the sugar substitute and the flavor powder (chocholate, etc.)
4. mix the milk until the powders have blended in
5. get the milk w/flavors in the bowl where you have previously placed the yogurt
6. mix till everything has nicely blended, then let it stand for 15 minutes or so till reaches ambient temperature
7. put the mix in the ice-cream machine, let it go for 30 minutes
8. enjoy your fresh home-made frozen yogurt!