A purple popsicle that can settle your nerves and set your mind at ease as well as give you a protein boost. Try these with store-bought culinary lavender, lavender tea, or your own home-grown lavender flowers.
Lavender Yogurt Popsicles
Lavender popsicles made from lavender-infused yogurt is calming, protein-rich and a refreshing addition to your weekend brunch table.
It’s not hard to make, just mix your favorite yogurt with lavender tea or culinary extract.
How Healthy is Lavender?
Studies show that lavender has many benefits: relieving stress, improving mood, supports sleep, reduces inflammation, eliminates dandruff, and soothe stomach upset. It’s actually from the mint family and the most common useful lavender plant – if you are lucky enough to be able to plant it fresh – is Lavandula angustifolia.
Regarding stress-relief, studies show that lavender can provide relief from stress, but also anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
For thousands of years, communities have been brewing a simple tea to be drunk at night to support a healthy sleep pattern.
Lavender is also considered an anti-inflammatory – pour that same tea in a bath, and the water will sooth inflamed muscles while the scent will calm you.
Skin aliments also react positively to lavender – put some dried or fresh buds in a spray bottle and spray irritations like rashes or bug bites to find them soothed.
And finally, lavender is also known for it’s ability to calm an upset stomach.
The polyphenols found in lavender buds are known to reduce harmful bacteria and gas in the gut. Drinking tea or even chewing on lavender leaves is said to be effective in reducing bloat and cramping.
How to make These Popsicles
In this popsicle recipe, I simply brewed a tea. I bought culinary lavender for this tea, but this fall I intend to plant a lavender garden! I. Can. Not. Wait! I will walk you through it on my IG stories!
This is the version I will plant:
To make this popsicle, simply start by brewing a quick lavender tea.
Drop 3 tsp of culinary lavender or fresh buds into 1/2 cup of just-boiled hot water and let steep for 3 minutes or let it cool. Either use a tea defuser or pour through a sieve to get clean liquid which is your lavender tea.
Add this cooled tea to yogurt and add maple syrup and lemon to taste. Blend it all up, stir in some fresh lavender buds, and pour into a mold.
I freeze one hour and then slip in sticks, and then freeze overnight.
I hope you love my soothing lavender pops!
I invite you to keep up with me on: Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Food Gawker | Twitter
Don’t miss a thing, subscribe here to get recipes delivered to your inbox!
Here are a two other lavender recipes you might enjoy:
Lavender Purple Sweet Potato Anti-Stress Smoothie
Lemon Lime Lavender Smoothie
Lavender Yogurt Popsicles
A purple popsicle that can settle your nerves and set your mind at ease as well as give you a protein boost. Try these with store-bought culinary lavender, lavender tea, or your own home-grown lavender flowers.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup yogurt
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- Juice from 1 lemon
- 6 tsp culinary lavender (or use fresh buds if you can, if you have access to freshly grown lavender free of fertilizer or plant food. Fresh buds produce a sweeter tea.)
- 1 cup fresh lavender tea
- popsicle mold
Instructions
-
Prepare fresh lavender tea. Steep 6 tsp lavender buds in 1 cup of hot water using a tea infuser and allow to cool completely.
If you don't have a tea infuser, simple stir the tea into the hot water, steep for 2 minutes and pour the tea through a sieve to filter out the spent lavender buds.
-
Blend yogurt, syrup, lemon juice, cooled tea, and 2 tsp of lavender buds. Taste-test the mixture. Add more lemon if you want it more lemony; add more maple syrup if you want it sweeter. If you were lucky enough to use fresh lavender buds, you might find the flavor naturally sweet enough. Just FYI, you need about 2 cups of mixture to make 6 popsicles.
-
Pour mixture into molds. Freeze for 1/2 hour and then insert sticks (I don't always use the mold lid, sometimes it doesn't fit right.).
Freeze mold at least 3-4 hours or overnight.
- To remove pops, dip mold into a pot of hot water without allowing water to spill over top and reach popsicles.
- Tug at each pop and wrap in parchment paper and store in freezer.
- Sprinkle with more lavender to serve!
