Jamies incredible 1 minute ice cream

ok so lets face it jamie's 30 minute meals don't really take 30 mins, not unless you have an army of sous-chefs at home, but you can't deny that there's some really clever time saving ideas in this series/book.
I can report that his 1 minute ice cream takes more like 3 or 4 but it is still a brilliantly simple idea that I suspect I will be doing several times over the summer, trying it with other fruit too.

ingredients

• 1 x 500g pack of mixed frozen berries
• 150g fresh blueberries
• 3–4 tablespoons runny honey
• 1 x 500g tub of natural yoghurt (I used greek)
• a few sprigs of fresh mint

serves 4

In advance: Put 4 small glasses in the freezer

When you're all set up and ready to go, get the glasses (if using) and the frozen berries out of the freezer.
Divide the fresh blueberries between the glasses or cornets. Put the honey and yoghurt and leaves from the sprigs of mint into the food processor and whizz,
then add the frozen berries and whiz again until combined.
Spoon the frozen yoghurt over the fresh berries and serve. Yum.

note: I prepared mine before lunch and bunged it in the freezer for an hour and it still worked fine

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