Just Banana Frozen Dessert

This ‘recipe’ has been around in the raw food community for decades. In the late 80’s/ early 90’s we used to go visit my grandma in Portland and my uncle (on a raw food diet at the time) would make this for us with his big burly Champion juicer. I still think fondly of the magic that is this dessert/snack. The juicer he had would smush the frozen banana out just like soft serve ice cream and we were allowed to eat as much of it as we wanted since it was just fruit!

The juicer I have does not have a function to make this, so I make it in the food processor. This is so creamy, so much like ice cream, and so healthy–I hope you’ll try making it. You can top it with something if you like–chocolate sauce, chocolate chips, fruit, blackberry sauce (if you happen to have had a failed jam-making experience), whatever you can think of. But personally, I just like it plain.

The Recipe

Serves 1

2 ripe bananas

Use ripe bananas (if they’re under-ripe the end result will be very starchy). Several hours ahead of time (or the day before) peel the bananas and cut them into chunks. Toss them into a container and freeze them. I generally just have a container of frozen bananas in the freezer at all times in case I get the hankering for this recipe. Once frozen, toss the bananas in your food processor:

Hold onto the food processor to stabilize it as you turn it on. The first few moments can be pretty aggressively shaky. Process the bananas. If it looks like this, keep going:

Periodically, use a spatula to scrape down the sides. When it looks like this, still keep going:

This is what you’re looking for–it will turn light, fluffy, very white, and incredibly smooth and creamy:

When you reach this point, wait no longer! Serve it up and eat it!

Have you had this heavenly concoction before? What do you think?