There’s nothing better than an ice cold ice lolly on a hot summer’s day, wouldn’t you agree? But have you had a look at the ingredients lists on commercially prepared lollies? Sugar, refined sugar, and more sugar! These lollies offer a healthier alternative made from (and your children will never suspect!) fresh fruits and vegetables including cucumber, broccoli and beetroot!
Nonetheless, these lollies went down an absolute treat with the children. The lolly moulds themselves from Decor are pretty clever as they have little sucky straws in the base so you can slurp up the melted juice. I was fortunate enough to pick up a set at our local charity shop for only 50 pence!
This month’s One Ingredient food blogging challenge by How to Cook Good Food and Franglais Kitchen is all about incorporating the humble cucumber in our recipes. You’d never know it from the flavour of these ice lollies, but there is a four inch segment of cucumber juiced along the other ingredients, so I am sharing this recipe with the challenge.
- 1/2 large pineapple
- 4 apples
- 4 inch section cucumber
- 4 large broccoli florets
- 2 limes, peeled
- 2 celery sticks
- 4 beetroot
- ice
Prep time: Cook time: Total time, including freezing: Yield: Makes 8 lollies
Green Tea & Shetland Seaweed Ice Cream
Lovely and refreshing for adults and kids alike
love the moulds! I shall check out Decor’s now. Thanks
I love fruity lollies, never tried them with broccoli, cucumber and beetroot though – sounds intriguing.
Elizabeth these cooling recipes are such a great idea. I do like to sneak some celery or cucumber into smoothies but not tried it in an ice lolly. These vibrant lollies would please the pickiest eater so I shall be trying them out on my toddler
What a brilliant way to present fruit and veggies – I reckon they’d work just as well on adults as well as children! x
Oh they do! I loved mine 😀
Your lollies are just brilliant. The idea of combining fruits and vegetables together is something so good i think they should be sold in the shops. I do have a juicer but have only used it once and I have had it since 2000. I think I need to get it going again! I have just made a blackcurrant ripple ice cream with the puree being exactly the same colour as your lollies and I think it has become my favourite colour of the summer. Reminds me of beetroot, blackberries, blackcurrants and loganberries as well as mulberries. So beautiful!
Thanks so much for linking up to One Ingredient xx
Oh you should dust that juicer off and get it going again! 🙂 Mmmm blackcurrant ripple ice cream sounds fantastic, I’ll have to pop over for a look!
That’s incredible – I can’t believe there’s broccoli in there, very clever! They look stunning, you should market these!
Thanks 🙂 Hrrrm… I don’t know how well they would see though, there’s stiff competition with the artificial foodstuffs!
The kids always prefer fresh fruit lollies as they are so refreshing. I’ve made carrot juice lollies before but I love the colour that you get from the beetroot. Good idea and lovely photos.
Ooh a carrot juice lolly would be fab. I love carrot, apple & ginger, might have to try a frozen version of that. Alas, we’ve had our one day of summer, so I might have to wait until next year. 😉
and that is why in Melbourne when it gets cold we joke – “balmy summer’s day in scotland” (well just E and I joke – not the whole population!) hope you got the washing dry at least. must try this juice and the icy poles, as we call them
Haha! Too funny! The washing did get dried, yes, several loads of it as a matter of fact 🙂