We’ve been passing around a spring cold the past few weeks in our house. To boost our immunity we take elderberry syrup, and a couple weeks in I figured out it was easier to sneak the dose into a smoothie or popsicle than it was to spoon it out to everyone day after day. Not that it’s difficult to spoon out, this is just a touch easier, and it adds a bright pink flavor to our normally more pale smoothies. I add a tablespoon of gelatin to our smoothies most days for the health benefits (post coming on this soon).
Immunity smoothie recipe (GAPS Friendly)
- 1 banana, ripe with spots (read about bananas on GAPS here)
- 2 tablespoons elderberry syrup (read about the immunity boosting properties of elderberry syrup here)
- 1 cup frozen organic mixed berries or other fruit of choice
- 1 cup milk kefir or coconut milk
- (optional) 1 tablespoon grassfed gelatin (buy here)
Blend, adding milk if needed to thin. Serves 2-4. Freeze remainder in popsicle molds, we love these rocketship pops found here. You fit a surprisingly small amount in popsicle molds, so a little left over goes a long way. The kids love the different flavors of popsicles that come from using different fruit and I love not throwing away the dab of extra smoothie we often seem to have!
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HI Cara,
Great idea! We use frozen fruit smoothies for ice pops all the time.
Do you think freezing it will reduce the efficacy of the elderberry? I know it’s better than not having any at all, but wonder how much of a difference it would make.
I can’t seem to get the link to the ice pop molds to work. Where did you get them? What are they made out of ?
Thanks!
I don’t think so- I boil the elderberries to make syrup, so I don’t imagine freezing would be any more harmful than that :)
This came at the perfect time! i happened to be making elderberry syrup for my sick girls when I saw this!
to Liz J,
Could you share your recipe for Elderberry Syrup? Thanks.
it’s linked up in the post where it’s called for in the ingredients :)
Does blending the kefir or raw milk denature it in some way? I recall reading that one shouldn’t shake their raw milk and raw yogurt for risk of denaturing it. Any thoughts?
No, I don’t think so unless it’s at a very high speed (like homogenizing) it might.
Now I know what to do with smoothie leftovers! THANK YOU! I think I will freeze in little muffin liners? I don’t have popsicle makers :)
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