INDIAN BERRY FRO YO … phalsa frozen yogurt
One such blog is Canela’s Kitchen Recipes, which belongs to lovely Gloria, who blogs from Santiago, Chile. She makes great use of fruit & has a mind-boggling array of fruity compositions on her blog. Gloria’s post about Blueberries & Raspberry Ice-cream is the source of inspiration for this fro yo that I made. 
The colour of her ice-cream was enough to unnerve me, & set me thinking. I HAD to get that colour in my freezer, by hook or crook. No blueberries or raspberries here, but this tart Indian berry, phalsa, was the perfect answer to my craving. Made this beautifully coloured, sweet & tart frozen yogurt to give colour to my dreams. It was one delicious & refreshing ice-cream!
A treat of this sort, with the goodness of berries, is more than I could have asked for. Going a step further now, as strawberries are out of season now, I decided to experiment with phalsas or Indian berries called ‘grewia asiatica’.
INDIAN BERRY FROZEN YOGURT
as adapted from David Levobitz
Ingredients:
1/2 kg Indian berries /(phalsa berries / grewia asiatica)
1 1/2 cup sugar (increase if need be)
1/2 cup water
Juice of 1 lime
Pinch of salt
1 cup thick yogurt (I hung it for 2-3 hours)
150ml cream (light 25% fat)
Method:
- Macerate the berries in sugar for 1-2 hours. Mash well, add water if required (these Indian berries do require some water as they are very tiny).
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Pass through a strainer & push out as much thick pulp as you can. I got 2 cups of berry pulp.
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Whip the yogurt & cream. Add a pinch of salt & the berry pulp. Whisk till smooth.
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Put into a plastic container & freeze, whisking every hour to break & distribute the crystals. Freeze till set; works better overnight.
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Enjoy!!
Deeba @ PAB
About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
39 Comments
Judy@nofearentertaining
Ohhh! That looks so incredible. I have to make that. I love berry ice cream/yogurt and this looks just perfect to me!!!
marye
Yum! that looks great! I thought it was blueberries at first. Your images are so amazing.
Hopie
Ooh, I just love the color of that! I can see why you wanted to make it 🙂
Curry Leaf
Love the fro yo.Cannot believe you made it from indian berries. Enjoy.Amazing pics as always
Kalyani
Very cool pictures & tempting …..
Parita
Looks very delicious and perfect for indian summer 🙂
chris
Looks great, fabulous colours.
Elra
Irresistible Deeba!
Such a beautiful berries, I am sure this frozen yogurt taste so delicious. Perfect for summer.
Have a wonderful weekend,
elra
Arundathi
The color is just amazing!! Lovely!
A_and_N
Such a brilliant, beautiful colour. Purple is my fave colour and I love this!
Manggy
I love the depth of the color– truly fantastic. I’m sure it was deliciously tart as well! 🙂
Prathibha
Feeling like grabbing that bowl right now…Looks amazing..lovely colour..
pigpigscorner
Such lovely colour and wonderful flavours! I love yougurt ice-cream.
Dragana
Amazing color from these Indian berries. I wish I could get my hand on some!
diva
oh deeba, you’ve got such a lovely colour with this ice cream..i happen to have a lipstick in that shade actually!! 🙂 kudos to Elizabeth Arden. anyway, i definitely agree with you on foodblogging. it’s a different space – u can unwind and just talk about food, take pictures of food. so simple and straightforward. and no bitchiness, politics, all the stresses of daily life. ;D xx
Laurie
That looks so beautiful.. and the berries.. yummm!
Have a Happy Mothers Day Deeba!
meeso
That’s a berry beautiful color!
Elenka
What a color!! Magnificent!
Julia @ Mélanger
Just adorable colours. I can just imagine a group sitting around and eating this on a summery day. Shame it’s chilly here now. Would be tempted to tuck in myself! 🙂
Bunny
The color is beautiful Deeba, I have no doubt this was a wonderful frozen treat!
Cynthia
Hon, let me tell you. Your blog is one of those that’s full of beauty and inspiration too. Every time I come here, it’s a treat!
Gera @ SweetsFoods
Deeba awesome ice cream-yogurt very tempting and appealing!
An excellent adaptation of the David recipe.
Pure inspiration!!
Cheers!
Gera
Helene
That looks incredibly good. That’s a fruit I never heard of. Beautiful as always!
Arwen from Hoglet K
That’s a gorgeous colour! Sweet and tangy frozen yoghurt is beautiful.
Ria
Omg! I love that colour! Deebaaaa.. you are sooo inspirational!!!! Love you for that!! 🙂
Hugs!
Simran
You made phalsa yogurt! WOW. That would have never occured to me.
I don’t think we even get phalsa in Bombay; miss the street vendors in Delhi.
MyKitchenInHalfCups
Just simple genius! Gorgeous color! Just made some strawberry frozen yoghurt last night!
Katie @ goodLife {eats}
Wow that sounds delicious and the color is beautiful!
Maria
I love the color. Great photos, that is my kind of treat!
ThePurpleFoodie
The frozen yoghurt looks absolutely delicious. If I ever come up north, you’re making this for me?
Ozge
Deeba, I am amazed how you come up with beautiful fresh pictures and yours posts are greatly visual as well as informative! It’s such a hot Spring night… I could go for this frozen yogurt happily!
Gloria
Dear Deeeba, many,many tahnks by your words I love your pictures and the colours and all, dear Deeba you really inspiringing me always!!!!!! thanks. Love ya, huggs!!! Gloria
aaah! you are an artist I think!
Kerstin
It’s gorgeous – what a great color! It looks so yummy and refreshing 🙂
noble pig
The color itself makes it look addictive! Just beautiful Deeba and would be wonderful on this very warm day.
Tangled Noodle
So beautiful and refreshing! I though these were blueberries – I’ve never come across phalsa berries before. I wonder where I might find them?
Snooky doodle
oh this looks great. The colour is amazing. I ll try this with strawberries . Hope it comes great like yours too 🙂
Nidhi
I miss phalse so much. They are delicious! Those are great pics and great idea!! You have made me miss phalse all the more. I could just eat up your picture:-)
lauresophie
your work (pictures and recipes) are amazing! congratulations
It is really really really NICE
See you
lovely day
Delicous! I want to try it.