St. Patrick’s Day Pistachio Ice Cream Ninja Creami Recipe

St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect holiday to serve homemade pistachio ice cream to your family for a delicious creamy treat. The delightful nutty flavors of the pistachio nuts and the natural green color of the nuts are also good. No artificial colors so that you have the final results of a traditional ice cream with simple ingredients and none of the chemicals. 

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Our family is new to the pistachio ice cream recipe after my middle daughter asked for it one holiday. This was the first time I tried to make a Ninja Creami ice cream with nuts and I could not be more pleased. This recipe is one with a nutty flavor and creamy texture and crunch nuts to add texture to the creamy dessert. It ended up being a super easy recipe that cost a lot less than what we can find in the store. 

Now that we are coming up on St. Patrick’s Day this recipe will be our favorite ice cream flavors for the holiday. Because we want to use simple ingredients do not use any sweetened condensed milk or instant pudding mix.  A lot of recipes use these ingredients but we are looking for healthy whole ingredients. I like to use monk fruit as my sweetener as it is a perfect low carb sugar free alternative to cane sugar or artificial sweeteners. 

Why You will love the Ninja Creami Ice Cream Machine

The first thing is that the Ninja Creami makes the most indulgent pistachio ice cream. If you are trying to make creamy desserts for the kids without all the work of a traditional ice cream machine. If you are trying to feed your family whole ingredients without chemicals that are found in traditional ice cream, you will love the Ninja Creami ice cream maker. The Ninja Creami is a no churn ice cream machine. 

The machine is simple to use with pints you freeze for 24 hours and then spin in the machine. This Ninja Creami Pistachio ice cream recipe is simple and quick and your kids will love helping you make the pints and watching the spinning action. Take the opportunity to teach your children how to pick whole clean simple ingredients to make delicious ice cream. This is the time to demonstrate how homemade ice cream is more fun and healthy than from the store traditional ice cream. 

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Tools Needed: 

1. Ninja Creami Ice Cream Maker
2. Ninja Creami Pints with lids
3. Mini Food Processor or Chopper

Ingredients For Homemade St. Patrick’s Day Pistachio Ice Cream: 

• 1 tablespoon softened Cream Cheese
• 1/3 cup Sugar or Munk Fruit Fruit
• 1 teaspoon Almond Extract
• 1/3 finally chopped raw Pistachios
• 3/4 cup of Half and Half or heavy whipping cream (both work well)
• 1/2 to 3/4 cups of Milk (add to the file line)
• a few raw Pistachios to serve on top
• optional vanilla Extract

How to Make Homemade Ninja Creami Ice Cream

1. Soften 1 tablespoon of cream cheese in the microwave for 15 seconds.
2. In a medium bowl or a large measuring cup combine the cream cheese and sugar (Munk Fruit) and mix well. 
3. Add the almond extract and mix. 
4. Next, add the half-and-half or heavy cream.
5. In a food processor or coffee grinder process/chop the pistachios into a fine ruff chop but not flour. 
6. Next, add to a Ninja Creami pint container the above ice cream mixture, the chopped pistachios, and the milk to the max fill line.
7. Place the storage lid on top of the pint container and freeze for at least 24 hours. 
8. When you are ready for delicious Pistachio Ice Cream, take the pint container out of the freezer and let it rest on the counter for 10 to 15 minutes. This depends on how hard your freezer freezes. This will ensure a creamy texture. 
9. Place the pint container in the outer bowl of the Ninja Creami secure the blade and outer bowl lid assembly unit on top and set it on the Ninja Creami machine. 
10. Process on the “Ice Cream” function. If the ice cream is a little crumbly put back on the Ninja Creami machine and re-spin function.

Process on the “Ice Cream” function. If the ice cream is a little crumbly put back on the Ninja Creami machine and re-spin function. Ninja Creami Healthy Strawberry Easy Homemade Ice Cream

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