3 Ingredient Pistachio Ice Cream 🍦 {High Protein and Low in Fat}
With three simple ingredients, Sugar free pistachio pudding mix, a frozen banana, and a scoop of protein powder, this healthy pistachio ice cream is the best for helping you reach your weight goals with delicious food along the way.
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The full recipe for this pistachio ice cream contains 250 calories, 25 g protein, 35 g carbs, 1 g fat, 3 g fiber, 16 g sugar, and 3 WeightWatchers Personal Points.
At Health Beet, I want to help you reach your weight loss goals, while eating DELICIOUS food! What better way to eat delicious food and stay healthy than with this Pistachio Protein Ice Cream.
To make this protein Ice cream, I used:
- Sugar free pistachio pudding mix. I use this a lot, because it’s sugar free, only 25 calories per tablespoon, and makes EVERYTHING taste better (IMO)! I regularly stir it into nonfat plain greek yogurt, I add it to pancakes, cottage cheese, creamy desserts, and today, I am adding it to this ice cream.
- Second, I used a scoop of protein powder. For Vanilla Protein powder I usually go with the Optimum Nutrition I can get at Costco. It’s 120 calories per scoop, and it’s pretty versatile. Plus, it consistently gets good ratings on my protein powder taste tests!
- And lastly, a frozen banana! Keep these in the freezer and you can make protein ice cream in under 5 minutes. Plus, the banana adds a balance of carbs to compliment the protein, keeping you full longer.
The most important aspect of making protein ice cream is that you must use a food processor. Because there is no liquid, a blender does not work! You can get one for under $50 and they last forever!
And that’s it! I have LOT’S of other recipes for protein ice cream, so check out this ice cream tag to see them all.
And let me know if you give this a try and tag me on all the socials!
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Equipment
- food processor
Ingredients
- 1 scoop vanilla protein powder 30 grams
- 1 tablespoon sugar free pistachio pudding
- 1 medium frozen banana
Optional
- 1 tablespoon whipped cream
- 1 small pistachio shelled, and crushed
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients in a high powered food processor. This does not work in a blender.
- Top with whipped cream and one crushed pistachio.
Nutrition
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Just found your story on Pinterest. I was looking for more recipes for the 1400-1500 calorie range and your recipes look simple and like something I could stick with! Thanks for sharing all your daily meals that you followed. I am especially looking forward to this pistachio ice cream recipe for my Birthday in a few weeks. About to be 33 and trying to get in the best shape of my life this year! Thanks for your encouragement!
Thanks for sharing AnnMarie! So glad you found me.and Happy Birthday coming up!
Amy Roskelley
Great flavor absolutely loved it. The first time I made it was off and wanted to share my mistake. The protein powder I had was 40g “per scoop” where as the ON whey is 30-31g. My assumption was a scoop was the same. Once I adjusted it came together great. Thank you Amy!
Yes! Thank you for noticing that. I need to add it. I even recently got a protein powder that was half the size of normal (15grams per scoop!)
So, I will definitely start using grams!!
Thanks so much for trying it and your feedback!