Sous Vide Chocco, Banana and Peanut Butter Frozen Protein Bites

Anova Culinary

This recipe can can be used as a warm spread when it’s straight out of the bag, or if you freeze it, it makes a great naughty-but-nice frozen treat. What I like to do is have a few spoons of it while it’s gooey and hot, and then freeze the rest. It becomes a delicious cold sweet treat that’s way healthier than having a store-bought chocolate ice cream bars.

Author

Christina Wylie

Christina Wylie is an award-winning writer, author, editor, food stylist, recipe creator, entrepreneur and radio host whose work has been featured in The Times & The Sunday Times, Time Out (Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai), Traveler’s Digest, Fah Thai Magazine, Broadsheet, Wining & Dining and many other internationally renowned publications. In 2013, after almost a decade of working as an international journalist, Christina founded the online lifestyle magazine The GAB Magazine, for which she now leads a team of 60 writers based all across Australia. She then founded Samui Life Magazine in 2016. After working as a recipe creator for Anova Culinary for over a year, she signed a cookbook contract with the American-based, international publishing company Quarto. Her cookbook, titled The Sous Vide Kitchen: Techniques, Ideas, and More Than 100 Recipes to Cook at Home, was published worldwide in 2017. She wrote, styled, and photographed everything that you see within that book. In 2017 she opened her first restaurant, Bootlegger, in Koh Samui, Thailand. She is currently in the initial stages of launching Bootlegger 2 in Phuket in 2018, and is looking to open Bootlegger 3 in Bangkok in 2019. She is currently working towards stepping into the world of food and travel presenting. As an entrepreneur herself, Christina co-founded the charity initiative Project Gen Z in 2015 to teach orphaned Cambodian children entrepreneurial skills. A British expat born and raised in Hong Kong, Christina has worked across the globe, and has lived in Thailand, London, Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa over the years.

Prep Time: 00:00

Recipe Time: 00:30

Temperature : 140F / 60C

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat water bath to 140 °F / 60 °C. Chop up the bananas into ½- to 1-inch slices and put in a zip-seal bag with the peanut butter and dark chocolate nibs. Immerse into the water bath using the displacement method and cook for 30 minutes.
  2. Stir the contents and either spread it or spoon it straight away, or freeze it in a popsicle mold or similar for a great frozen treat.

Freeze

  1. Pop the filled mold into the freezer. Thinly slice to serve.