Bananas can tend to get a bitter taste to them after freezing and it's intensified if they're under-ripe So definitely use very ripe bananas for this. They shouldn't be brown-mushy-banana-bread-ripe, but ripe. I found the best ones to be like the ones below, where the outsides were spotty but the insides weren't brown yet at all. They were super sweet.
Try it with about 3 medium bananas. Slice or dice into small pieces (to make the blending part easier) and place in the freezer. Place frozen banana chunks into a food processor.
Can you guess the next step? Ya, blend those babies up. Depending on the size of your food processor, the amount of bananas, and how frozen they are, you may have to stop it a few times and scrape and mush the mixture around. I've had to do that every time
The first time I tried this I was concerned when my mixture never turned into anything resembling ice cream. It just looked like tiny little grains, much like couscous!But all I had to do was grab a spatula and when I stirred them even the tiniest bit, ta-da!Sure enough it was smooth, creamy, and looked just like ice cream!
Now looking like ice cream is one thing, but what about the taste and texture? I was very surprised to find that this stuff actually feels like ice cream in my mouth. It tastes like- let's be real here, bananas. But it's still quite delish. One of the great things you can do is add some mix-ins to the food processor along with bananas. Sure it won't make it "one" ingredient ice cream anymore, but it's sure yummy. I tried one batch with some cinnamon-sugar, one with a spoonful of peanut butter.
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