 Today I'm making a healthy version of some strawberry and banana ice cream. We're going to be using cottage cheese in this. Stay with me here now. And that's going to give it the nice creaminess and add some protein to our ice cream. It turns out really well. I'm going to use a little bit of sweetener. Now that depends on how sweet your strawberries are and your banana. But you can play with it and you know sometimes during the season the strawberries are so sweet you don't need any sugar. So anyway we're going to make this I'm going to show you how to do it and you can play with it. I'm rockin robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after my chef joke. Who was the best rock and roll strawberry? Chuckberry. So for this recipe you're going to want to get some frozen organic strawberries and do use organic because well there's a lot of pesticides on strawberries. I'm going to pull out my handy dandy scale here and I'm going to measure out about a pound of frozen strawberries and then we'll place those into a food processor. And then we're going to process this until we have this strawberries broken down into small pieces. I think you can see here that you want to break the strawberries down pretty good but they're still frozen. We're going to add a banana to this which is going to give it some sweetness too and even though I didn't freeze the banana I think it would be better if you did you just have a colder product in the end. So I'll just break up the banana into pieces just to make it easier on the processor. To add some protein to our ice cream I'm adding some cottage cheese and this is also going to make it nice and creamy. Also I would recommend using full fat cottage cheese because that's going to make it creamier and richer. Okay we're going to sneak in chef joke number two. Why did the newspaper talk to the ice cream? Because he was looking for the scoop. Now if you want to give this a little more sweetness in case your strawberries and bananas aren't that sweet we're going to add some date paste. So now I'm going to talk to you about how to make that date paste real quick here. So we're going to use some fresh majol dates and these are pitted. I'm going to place a cup here of dates in my blender and then I'm going to add a cup of water maybe a little more just depending on how thick we want it and just blend it until it's absolutely smooth. Now there's no problem with making extra here because you can use it in a variety of different foods like I like to toss it in my smoothies or if I'm having tea I need to sweeten it up just a tad it adds a nice flavor. You could also add date paste to salad dressings, soups or stews or anything that needs just a hint of sweetness. So you want to mix this up until it's absolutely smooth and creamy. So back to our ice cream so I'll go ahead and put the lid on and then we're going to pulse this until it starts to become creamy. As it starts to combine you're going to want to remove the lid periodically and scrape down the sides and the lid just to get everything mixed in. Now you can see how nice and creamy and smooth this is. Now if the banana had been frozen it would be just a little bit thicker which is not a bad thing. This is a good time to take a little taste and see if you need to add more date paste or whatever sweetener you want to use. I voted yes on a little more date paste so here we go and then we'll just blend it one more time. So why do you want to bother using date paste rather than just plain white sugar? Well you're going to get a lot more fiber protein iron and calcium so you're not going to find that in sugar. So here's what it looks like right out of the food processor. It's soft served definitely and like I said if that banana was frozen it would be a bit thicker. Now you'd want to go ahead and freeze this if you want it more firm and then when you're ready to eat it then you're going to want to take it out of the freezer for maybe 15 minutes or so so that they can soften up and make it easier to scoop. If you love ice cream you're going to want to try my creamy lemon ice cream here. This is a traditional type of ice cream so click the link on the screen it'll take you right to the recipe. I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did let me know by smashing the like button and leave me a comment. I'd love to hear from you. All right we'll see you back here next week for another delicious and healthy recipe. Take care.