Lime Yogurt Fruit Dip
Powdered yogurt and lime gelatin, shaken cold. A dip for the fruit you carried in from the car.
- calories
- 190
- weight
- 1.6 oz
- cal / oz
- 119
- protein
- 9 g
- serves
- 4, scales
- prep
- 5 min
- cook
- 0 min
- total time
- 5 min
- water
- 90 ml cold
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Snack
- No cook
- Car camping
- Day hike
- Basecamp
- Canoe / raft
- Vegetarian
- Gluten free
- Nut free
- Eat in the bag
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Dump and stir
Ingredients
| Powdered whole milk yogurt | 1/2 cup | greek-style yogurt powder if you can find it; plain milk powder works |
|---|---|---|
| Sugar-free lime gelatin mix | 1 packet (0.3 oz) | this is the flavor, the tang, and the green |
| Cold water | about 6 tbsp | add it slowly |
| Green apples | 2 | they bruise less than anything else you can bring |
| Green grapes | 2 cups | |
| Honeydew or kiwi | 1 melon or 4 kiwi | cut at home, packed in a screw-top jar |
Method
- Put the yogurt powder and the gelatin powder in a quart freezer bag and press the air out.
- Add cold water a tablespoon at a time, working the bag with your fingers between additions. Stop when it holds a soft peak.
- Let it sit ten minutes. The powder keeps absorbing and the mix thickens after you stop mixing.
- Slice the apples at camp so they do not brown. Everything else was cut at home.
- Snip a corner off the bag if you want to squeeze the dip out, or just dip straight from it.
The original is a bowl of Greek yogurt with lime gelatin powder stirred in, which means it needs a fridge and a cooler and a spoon that stays clean. Powdered yogurt fixes all three. It rehydrates to about the right thickness at roughly one part powder to three-quarters water, and gelatin powder is already dry, so the whole dip becomes two bags and a squeeze bottle of water.
Add the water slowly. Dumping it in at once gives you lumps that never break up, because the powder skins over before it wets through. The rest period matters as much as the mixing does — the dip that looks too thin at minute one is usually right at minute ten. Fresh fruit still needs a cooler, so this is a car-camping and day-hike snack, not a resupply-to-resupply one.
Packing
Powders go in one bag at home, already combined. Fruit rides in the cooler or gets eaten the first day. The apples travel loose and the melon travels cut, in a jar with the lid down tight.
Variations
- Swap the lime gelatin for a sweetened drink powder and a pinch of salt if you want less sugar alcohol.
- Freeze-dried fruit instead of fresh makes this a real backpacking snack, though the dip is thick enough that it will not rehydrate the fruit for you.
https://homeandkind.com/blogs/food-recipes/st-patricks-day-green-fruit-platter