Matcha Ice Cream – Easy Vegan Recipe for the Ninja Creami
Hands down, the cleanest and easiest Matcha Ice Cream recipe for your Ninja Creami! Discover how to make the ultimate clean eating matcha tea ice cream in minutes. With this simple healthy Ninja Creami recipe you can enjoy an incredibly creamy, vegan treat with vibrant green tea flavor. You can even add your favorite supplement to make a Ninja Creami protein ice cream.
Table of contents
- Meet My Ninja Creami Mentor: Kathy Hester
- Vegan Ice Cream Recipe Base Ingredient Ideas
- Ingredient Spotlight: Matcha Powder & Oat Milk Cream
- Ingredients for the Matcha Ice Cream
- How to Make Matcha Ice Cream with Ninja Creami Deluxe
- Serving Ideas for Your Matcha Ice Cream
- Storage Tips
- FAQs
- Where Can I Get A Ninja Creami Deluxe?
Matcha tea ice cream lovers, your ultimate vegan recipe is here! My Vegan Matcha Ice Cream is creamy, perfectly sweetened, and delivers a delightful green tea flavor in every scoop. Crafted specifically for your Ninja Creami Deluxe, this matcha tea ice cream is both easy and delicious—ideal for healthy eating and compatible with whole-food, plant-based lifestyles. (If you have a smaller Ninja Creami machine, I’ll also give the recipe reduced by a third at the end.)
Using whole steel cut oats to make a fresh oat milk cream for our healthy Ninja Creami recipe ice cream base was simpler than I anticipated. I was also able to use the sprouted grain oats that I prefer, making this treat even healthier with a low glycemic index that’s perfect for my diet needs. Whether you prefer traditional ice cream, soft serve, or even lighter creations like sorbet and frozen yogurt, your Ninja Creami Deluxe handles them all, thanks to intuitive touch programs and easy-to-clean dishwasher-safe parts like the stainless steel outer bowl and pint container. The magic of the machine here was its ability to transform my homemade oat milk into a rich creamy consistency, similar to storebought vegan ice cream.
Meet My Ninja Creami Mentor: Kathy Hester
If you follow my blog, you know how much I love using special ingredients or kitchen tools to make vegan foods awesome enough for everyone to fall in love with. But did you know that my ice cream-making skills were inspired by my friend Kathy Hester? I met her in an outstanding blogging group that has helped me along immensely. Kathy is a renowned vegan chef, author, and blogger specializing in healthy Ninja Creami recipe books, whole-food plant-based diets, and healthy vegan cooking.
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Kathy’s blog Healthy Slow Cooking, her engaging YouTube channel, and fantastic recipe books on WFPB Ninja Creami Recipes have been instrumental in teaching me to create frozen treats that taste indulgent yet align with my dietary goals. If you’re serious about learning tricks and tips such as how to make the best healthy Ninja Creami recipe or how to add-in ingredients to make a Ninja Creami protein ice cream, her learning resources and recipes are for you. Whether you’re curious about Ninja Creami price comparisons, looking for Ninja Creami Deluxe or XL tips, or eager to master Ninja Creami add-ins, Kathy’s resources are everything you need to become a Ninja Creami Master.
Vegan Ice Cream Recipe Base Ingredient Ideas
The Ninja Creami has various settings for the different types of frozen treats that you could make. When it comes to ice creams, and specifically vegan ice creams, there are a few different ways to make a creamy dairy-free base. Plant-based yoghurt or canned coconut milk is an easy go-to, but if you’re worried about cost or added ingredients we have a few great options. Whole steel cut oats and unsalted raw cashews can be easily processed into a clean, plant-based ice cream with minimal effort.
For one container in the Ninja Creami Deluxe, I’m using either a cup and a half of sprouted steel cut oats or unsalted raw cashews. (Use one cup of either for the smaller Ninja Creami machines) I briefly soak the oats in two cups of filtered water, no more than a half hour is best. Add the soaked oats and the liquid to the pitcher of a high speed blender, add one more cup of water, then blend on high for only thirty seconds. Strained through a mesh sieve or cheesecloth, this oat cream makes a lucious non-dairy frozen ice cream base.
Cashews can be soaked overnight, or up to a full day, if you aren’t impatient and boil them for ten minutes instead. Process the drained cashews with three cups of water on high, and strain just like the oats to make a cashew cream base.
Lastly, if you want to make some amazing Ninja Creami protein ice cream it’s a simple thing to reserve a bit of room in the container to add in a scoop of your favorite brand of flavored or unflavored vegan protein powder. This will boost your protein intake and enhance the creaminess of the end product.
Ingredient Spotlight: Matcha Powder & Oat Milk Cream
This vegan matcha ice cream recipe highlights two plant-powered ingredients: matcha powder and creamy oatmilk.
Matcha powder provides a vibrant green color and earthy, slightly sweet flavor, along with beneficial antioxidants to support your health goals, including potential GLP-1 support. This is the one I used, and it tasted great in my recipe.
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Steel cut oats, my preferred plant-based base for this recipe, provides exceptional creaminess without heavy cream, allowing us to keep our ice cream maker creations light and healthy. I made my own batch for this recipe to get a thicker oat cream consistency than oat milk. I love the fact that these oats are organic, and that they are sprouted grains for a lower glycemic index is just icing on the cake!
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Ingredients for the Matcha Ice Cream
For this recipe, I wanted something incredibly clean and light but also easy to make. I’d only make one change if I wanted a completely whole food plant based recipe. You could swap the sweetener here for a few dates, but I need to watch my calories and opted for the next best thing. I used a monk fruit sweetener for this recipe that was paired with allulose instead of something like erythritol.
- steel cut oats – the lowest calorie plant-based option to make a creamy frozen base
- matcha – culinary grade or a blend here is fine for a refreshing green tea flavor
- monk fruit sweetener – one of the few options without erythritol and has a great taste
- xanthan gum – any stabilizer like guar gum or carrageenan works, optional for texture
- vanilla bean paste – we’re not baking so the flavor of the premium vanilla shines
- protein powder – optional for making a Ninja Creami protein ice cream
How to Make Matcha Ice Cream with Ninja Creami Deluxe
Making vegan matcha ice cream is effortless with your Ninja Creami machine. Here’s the quick overview (full instructions in the recipe card below):
- Make about three cups of oat milk cream, or use whatever alternative you prefer.
- Blend the oat milk cream, matcha powder, your choice of natural sweetener (softened dates, stevia, or monk fruit extract), and whatever stabilizer and vanilla you opt to use and protein if you want it.
- Pour into your Ninja Creami container and freeze overnight until solid.
- Use a firm spoon or other utensil to scrape flat any hump that forms while freezing.
- Place your frozen solid base into the outer bowl and secure it into your Ninja Creami Deluxe ice cream machine.
- Select the light ice cream program to transform your frozen base into smooth, creamy vegan matcha ice cream.
- Due to the lack of fat and sugar in this recipe, the first result will be dry and powdery in texture. Add a couple of tablespoons of oat milk to the container and use the machine’s re-spin cycle to get the ice cream to the best texture.
- Serve immediately as soft serve, or refreeze briefly for firmer scoops.
Serving Ideas for Your Matcha Ice Cream
Serve immediately after the re-spin cycle for a soft-serve style texture with this recipe. Due to the absence of fat and sugars in this recipe, it may serve best after being placed back into the freezer after the re-spin cycle to firm up. This especially if you haven’t used a stabilizer ingredient such as xanthan gum or guar gum.
This vibrant vegan matcha ice cream can be enhanced with delightful toppings or pairings, such as:
- Sprinkle of matcha powder or cacao nibs
- Drizzle of agave syrup or date syrup
- Fresh berries or tropical fruits like mango or kiwi
- Vegan whipped cream or coconut flakes for extra indulgence
Storage Tips
Store your prepared vegan matcha ice cream in airtight, freezer-safe containers. Re-spin after a solid freezing for the best creamy texture.
FAQs
Absolutely! Vegan matcha ice cream can be made with other ingredients to make the ice cream base, such as canned coconut milk or coconut cream that have a higher fat content or use a sweetened condensed coconut milk to get the sweetness from added sugar too.
The Ninja Creami Deluxe and Ninja Creami 11-in-1 are excellent ice cream makers for vegan recipes, as they effortlessly create creamy textures from plant-based frozen bases. The blade and motor are built to withstand powering through frozen ingredients to create a texture that a blender could never.
When there is no fat and sugar in a recipe, there is only so much magic that a powerful motor and blade can do. Ice creams usually rely on their fat and sugar content to control the texture of the ice crystals in the product. The Ninja Creami machines have a re-spin feature, that with some additional moisture and a one or two minute cycle will have any recipe smooth and creamy as full fat ice cream.
Where Can I Get A Ninja Creami Deluxe?
I grabbed mine recently online similar to the link below. At the time of writing this there was a sale which makes the perfect incentive to grab one and begin making your own healthy treats at home.
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Ingredients
Ingredients for Vegan Oatmilk Matcha Ice Cream
- 1½ cups steel cut oats
- 3 cups water
- 4 tbsp monk fruit sweetener with allulose, equivalent to table sugar
- 1 tbsp matcha powder
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- ½ tsp xanthan gum, as a stabilizer, or alternatives carrageenan or guar gum optional
Equipment
Instructions
Instructions for Making the Matcha Ice Cream
- Soak 1½ cups of oats in 2 cups of water and let rest, up to 30 minutes for a creamy result.
- Blend on maximum speed with the remaining 1 cup of water for 30 seconds in a high speed blender, or until you can no longer make out pieces of oats in a regular blender or bullet.
- Strain the oat milk cream through a mesh sieve or cheesecloth and discard the oat bran, or reserve it for another recipe like oat pancakes.
- Whisk or blend in the remaining ingredients into the oat milk cream.
- Pour the ice cream base into the Ninja Creami container and freeze for 24 hours.
- Scrape any hump or uneven surface in the frozen material with a strong spoon or other utensil to create the best flat surface for the machine to process.
- Process in the Ninja Creami machine using the light ice cream setting for one cycle.
- If the ice cream is dry and powdery after the first cycle, add about two tablespoons of oat milk or other liquid to the container and process again with the re-spin cycle.
