Strawberry Frozen Yogurt

Just for kicks, I thought it would be fun (and slightly tricky) to make homemade frozen yogurt with the kids. The tricky part involved keeping the ice cream maker bowl cold enough to make frozen yogurt for 6 classes on Thursday and 5 classes on Friday. But, this problem was easily solved by continuously rotating 3 different machines! So, thank you to Noelle and Mark Williams (Nolan's parents, Yellow Room) and Vanessa and John Havener (Owen's parents, Green Room) for lending us your ice cream makers for this week's Cooking Class!

So, we discussed three important things at the beginning of each class:
1. This would be our last time meeting in the Cooking Classroom for the year...so we were going to make something really fun!
2. Our recipe is really special because it only had 4 ingredients: strawberries, sugar, lemon and yogurt.
3. We were doing things backwards! First, we put a pre-made batch of the yogurt mixture in the ice cream maker to allow it to churn during class. Then, while it was churning, we made a batch for the next class!

We used a lot of cooking tools for this cooking lesson: an ice cream maker, a food processor, a chef's knife, a microplane, a lemon juicer and a spatula! First, we used the Chef's knife to slice the strawberries.

Then, we placed them in a bowl and added sugar.

We used a microplane to zest a lemon, then we added the juice!

We stirred it all together....then...

...for the first time, we used the BRAND NEW Cuisinart Food Processor that was recently purchased with PTO funds. Wow! The Red Room took this powerful machine on its maiden voyage. 

After we added the yogurt to to food processor, we carefully poured the mixture into the ice cream maker...

which was soooooooooo fascinating!

With the use of our three different ice cream makers...the results...

...were delicious! 

Quotes of the Day:

This stuff is the yummiest.

This frozen yogurt is the best cooking class.

Strawberry Frozen Yogurt 

Ingredients

1 quart strawberries, hulled and chopped
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon zest
Juice from 1/2 of a lemon
1 quart of whole, plain Greek yogurt


Directions

A full 24 hours before you make your frozen yogurt, place your ice cream maker insert into the freezer.

Combine the strawberries, sugar, lemon zest, and lemon juice to a food processor. Pulse the berries until smooth, and then add the yogurt. Continue to blend until smooth.

Turn your ice cream machine on and pour in the chilled yogurt mixture. Churn until the mixture looks slushy like soft serve, about 12 to 15 minutes.

Thank you, again, to Vanessa Havener (Owen's mom, Green Room) for volunteering on Thursday. We did a lot of "appliance shifting" and "lesson strategizing" to accommodate this very fun recipe. Thank you for your much needed help!