Latin Desserts Healthy Version To Share With Your Friends

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

As every week you organize a dinner with your friends and although they are all lovers of salads, vegetables and healthy food, they have one weak point: desserts. And it is that Latin cuisine if you know anything, it is sweet. If this is your case and it cannot happen without your chocolates, ice creams or biscuits, we have prepared three versions of classic Latin desserts: tres leches, coconut flan, and ice pops, with less sugar, vegan style and gluten-free, so that when taking them do not feel guilty. These interpretations of traditional sweets, in addition to watching the line, are good for health. Hands to the dough!

If you are a fan of the Tres Leches Sponge Cake in your house, so called because it is soaked in three different types of milk, do not worry. The trick is to substitute the caloric milks from the traditional recipe for healthier ones, such as coconut.

This recipe is not vegan because it uses eggs, milk and butter. But it has less fat content than the original.

You will need:

1/2 cup of coconut flour

1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

1 cup of granulated sweetener

1 pinch of salt

5 eggs separating the white and yolk

1/2 cup of melted and cooled butter

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 cup coconut or almond milk, sugar-free

1/2 cup condensed milk

1/2 cup skim milk

Optional: 1/4 cup brandy

Garnish: sugar-free frosting

1. Preheat oven to 375ºF and prepare a round pan with baking paper.
2. Mix the coconut flour, yeast and half of the sweetener in a bowl and reserve.
3. Pour the egg whites into the mixer with the rest of the sweetener and mount to the snow point.
4. In another bowl mix the egg yolks, the butter, the vanilla extract.
5. Add the coconut flour mixture in which you have the egg yolks.
6. Gradually incorporate the egg whites into snow.
7. Pour the mixture into the mold and leave it in the oven for about 30 minutes. Then let it cool for 20 minutes and do not remove it from the mold.

1. Using a skewer stick, make holes in the entire surface of the cake.
2. In a bowl, mix the coconut milk, condensed milk and skim milk. And if you want, the brandy.

1. Pour it on the cake and let it soak for 30 minutes.
2. Put it in the fridge at least an hour before removing it from the mold.
3. Decorate with the frosting and fruits of your choice, such as strawberries or strawberries from the forest.

The second sweet that we offer you is super simple because you only need three ingredients. In this case it is vegetarian, vegan, gluten and dairy free and low in sugar. It is a delicious coconut flan without egg.

Ingredients:

1 cup coconut milk

2 tablespoons coconut sugar

1/2 teaspoon agar-agar (an algae extract with a gelling capacity)

1. With the pot cold, pour all the ingredients and stir until it begins to boil.
2. Remove from the heat and add it to a large bowl or individual containers.
3. When they are firmer but still warm, sprinkle the coconut sugar on top, which after a while will moisten and turn into caramel.
4. You can add other ingredients such as cocoa or vanilla to the mix to make it more to your liking.

After a hearty dinner or a hot afternoon, who doesn't fancy a delicious popsicle? If you are concerned about the calories and ingredients used in industrial ice creams, nothing better than this homemade recipe that we propose of pumpkin and spice popsicles.

For 12 popsicles:

3 1/2 cups almond milk

4 tablespoons pumpkin puree. Boil the pumpkin for 20 minutes, let cool and beat in the food processor or with the mixer until obtaining a silky texture.

4 tablespoons of dulce de leche. An option for vegans is to use liquid caramel instead of dulce de leche.

1 teaspoon and 1/2 of vanilla extract.

1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder.

1. Pour all the ingredients into a jar and stir until there is a homogeneous mixture and the dulce de leche has dissolved.
2. If you use caramel you can do it yourself with water, sugar and a little lemon juice.
3. Spread the mixture on the pallets.
4. Put them in the freezer for several hours until they are hard.